The Cuban Triangle

Lots of catching up to do on news items about U.S.-Cuba relations, but none of these items have to do with government officials sitting acro...

A new blog, about Catholic faith in Cuba : Creer en Cuba . A story from Catholic News Agency here . Cuba ’s 2009 touri...

There’s something that should be cleared up about the case of Walter Myers and Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, the Washington couple who adm...

Daniel Calingaert of Freedom House calls for an end to Cuba travel restrictions in the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill . ...

When his wife Yoani Sanchez was roughed up a week earlier, Reinaldo Escobar decided that he would reciprocate not with violence but by chall...

Notimex : In a sign of tolerance for differing opinions, the Cuban Liberty Council is set to honor Yoani Sanchez with its “Heroes of Freedom...

I read President Obama’s answers to Yoani Sanchez’ seven questions, and there’s not much new to chew over. As one might expect, he reitera...

Another nugget from Fidel published in Granma, this one from December 1, 1986 (my translation): “Many don’t understand that the socia...

My testimony in a hearing today before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is here (pdf) . Chairman Berman’s opening statement is...

Yoani Sanchez publishes seven questions ( English here ) for the presidents of Cuba and the United States , says she has answers from Presi...

AFP : The United States and Cuba are planning a second round of migration talks in December, no date chosen yet. A s...

A Herald op-ed calling for repeal of U.S. travel restrictions by Senator Richard Lugar and Congressman Howard Berman, respectively the top ...

The World Bank has just updated its World Development Indicators and Google has made the Bank’s data series available in its search functio...

In advance of the 490 th anniversary of the founding of Havana next Monday, the Boston Globe’s website has a terrific photo essay by Hava...

“In the history of society I don't remember any situation where economic accumulation has advanced because some charismatic leader says,...

The Herald reports on the changing activities of Cuban bloggers ; as Reynaldo Escobar put it, “Some people have been doing ac...

Today's Granma runs a one-paragraph Fidel quote from 1986 about the error of “underutilizing human resources,” something that “teaches ...

The archbishop in charge of the Vatican’s communications council visited Cuba with the request that the Church have “normal...

En route to a march at 23d and G in Havana ’s Vedado neighborhood on Friday, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was detained, packed into a car, an...

Omara Portuondo got a visa to come to the United States and present at the Latin Grammy awards last night, and it’s a good thing – she ...

Mercifully, this has been the hurricane season that wasn’t… this storm , now southwest of Cuba , could graze the island’s wes...

Last week I noted an AP article about a farmers market in Havana where word came down from Communist Party officials that price controls ...