The Cuban Triangle

Havana-Miami-Washington events and arguments and their impact on Cuba

Friday, May 28, 2010

Odds and ends

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“Our opinion is of skepticism,” says human rights monitor Elizardo Sanchez who believes that expectations for prisoner releases ro...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Historic Photos of Cuban Miami

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Jose Marti in Key West, Batista at the Miami Beach Rotary Club, Fidel holding forth at the Flagler Theater, JFK at the Orange Bowl greetin...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Tire repair

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This Sancti Spiritus tire repairman does good work, aided by supplies he picked up while visiting family in Florida and a compressor can...

Odds and ends

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Europa Press: Cuba ’s foreign minister says a “proposed agenda” for talks with the United States was presented to the U.S...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Clarification

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A reader asks if it’s true that the Cuban government has “in the past has gone over the heads of the local church officials and negotiated d...

Our "shared history" with communist China

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To “better ensure that the United States and China make the most of this exciting time in our shared history,” Secretary of State Clinto...

Odds and ends

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Wilfredo Cancio, formerly of the Herald, reports via Twitter that prisoner Antonio Villareal was transferred to a clinic in...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Playing it safe in Miami

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This is the passage from the May 20 address by Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela to the Cuban American National Foundation that...

Prisoner transfers and releases coming?

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Reuters reported Saturday and AP yesterday that the Cuban government has told Church officials that political prisoners will be transferre...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Not your usual article in Granma

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“Cardinal Ortega describes dialogue between Raul and ecclesiastical authorities as positive” – headline of a May 21 Granma article that giv...
Friday, May 21, 2010

The Church as "mediator"

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Cardinal Ortega spoke with reporters in Havana yesterday about the four-hour meeting with President Raul Castro where the issue of pol...

The Washington Post on Alan Gross

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The Washington Post has a long story on USAID contractor Alan Gross, who has been detained in Cuba since last December. Reporter Mary Be...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Odds and ends

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Granma led the paper today with a terse story about a meeting between President Raul Castro and Cardinal Jaime Ortega. AP ...

Out of the way, please

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Against a backdrop of farm output that is lower than last year’s, and with newly distributed farmlands not yet being used to their potenti...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Odds and ends

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CubaEncuentro posts a video from Maria Elvira Live , an interview with attorney Enrique Zamora who delivers inheritances to C...

Cuba at risk in Gulf oil spill (Updated)

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Typically, we Americans figured that Cuba might screw up and our beaches might be contaminated by a mistake in their oil drilling program...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Odds and ends

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Reuters : Cuba ’s economy minister announces that the government will set up markets across Cuba where farmers can buy the suppli...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Another pilot project under way

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Reuters reports a new deal for the drivers of 16-seat Chinese buses operated by the state enterprise Cubataxi. First, no more sala...

Masonic Lodge #3

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Letters to Granma push for change

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What to do about employment in Cuba, a issue that is of greater-than-usual interest since Raul Castro noted in a speech last month that the...

Masonic Lodge #2

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Odds and ends

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Independent journalist Miriam Leiva , an a Herald op-ed, on recent leadership changes and a “growing malaise in Cuban society...
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