The Cuban Triangle

A few notes after reading some of the documents and clippings about the UN vote: This annual event is really a demonstration of Ha...

Bloomberg : The Treasury Department agrees that its policy that blocks Microsoft and Google instant messaging software in Cuba ...

Rather than engage in a book burning, Vigilia Mambisa’s Miguel Saavedra got himself what appears to be a nice cordless paper shredder to d...

A Cuban cancer drug is undergoing clinical trials in the United States , EFE reports (English here , Spanish here ). Earl...

AP reports that price controls may be instituted at farmers markets, citing producers, vendors, and consumers who were told by the Commun...

An exchange at yesterday’s State Department press briefing between reporters and spokesman Ian Kelly: QUESTION: Speaking of the UN, th...

The UN General Assembly is set to debate and vote today on a resolution that declares the “necessity of ending the economic, commercial and ...

According to La Jornada , Mexican officials report that during the past year they have returned 79 Cubans who were brought illegally to Mexi...

Following up on a visit to Washington last month by Cuban environmental officials, the Environmental Defense Fund has a team in Cuba th...

The Herald has more on the Juanita Castro memoir. Carlos Miller of the blog miamibeach411, prompted by last week’s poll, tak...

A Sunday story in Madrid ’s El Pais relies on “diplomatic sources” to reconstruct an October 13 conversation between Prime Minister Zapater...

Fidel Castro’s sister Juanita, who left Cuba in 1964 and built and sold a pharmacy business in Miami , collaborated with the CIA. Th...

Former Congressional candidate and Miami-Dade Democratic party chair Joe Garcia received Senate confirmation Wednesday for his En...

MLB.com has a story about Aroldis Chapman, the Cuban southpaw and national strikeout leader who has arrived in New York to start looking f...

In her Herald column today, Marifeli Perez-Stable discusses the lack of a healthy, hefty and far-reaching political center in Cuban politic...

I have noted Juventud Rebelde’s surprising coverage of economic issues several times (see here and here and here ). It now seems that...

Cuban Colada has the story of the Spanish businessman who was freed pending trial in Cuba this week. Pedro Campos...

A new Bendixen poll shows a 59 percent majority of Cuban Americans supporting unrestricted travel to Cuba by all Americans. Only 29 perc...

Spanish foreign minister Miguel Moratinos concluded a visit to Cuba and took heat from Spain ’s opposition party and dissidents in Cuba fo...

Virginia’s agriculture commissioner leads a sales delegation to Havana next month. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin v...

Blogger Yoani Sanchez last week was denied permission to travel to the United States to receive a Columbia University journalism award, s...

El Nuevo Herald’s Wilfredo Cancio did some digging into the story I noted yesterday about two Baptists detained October 3 in eastern Cuba ...