[Miami Herald]– A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize.
Yoani Sanchez had hoped to go to Columbia University for a ceremony Wednesday to receive [...]
[Miami Herald]– Teresita died on my birthday almost five years ago. I didn’t grow up with my older cousin — she stayed behind in Havana after the revolution and my father, her uncle, was wise enough to leave.
But when I met Teresita and her son and daughter during a month long reporting trip to Cuba [...]
[Vietnam News]– President Nguyen Minh Triet affirmed the continued friendship, support and solidarity by the Party, State and people of Viet Nam for their Cuban counterparts during a courtesy call on former Cuban President Fidel Castro on Monday.
Triet said he believed that the Cuban people, under the leadership of the Cuban [...]
Why is the world’s third-largest economy spending hundreds of millions of dollars in Cuba, an impoverished island with few natural resources and a history of making things difficult for foreign investors?
The answer is simple: China is the world’s third-largest economy.
A series of deals from Beijing to Havana are partly in line with Chinese economic expansion [...]
President Barack Obama has extended the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba for one year, the White House said in a statement released on Monday.
The extension was expected and has been the practice of all U.S. presidents dating to the 1970s under a section of the so-called “Trading With the Enemy Act.”
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What does it mean when Fidel Castro, known for carefully managing his image, appears in recent photos wearing not his usual track suits but shirts that one observer called “tropical business casual.”
Perhaps nothing, Cuba analysts say. But perhaps, they add almost in the same breath, Castro is signaling that he’s done rehabilitating from his health [...]
The Cuban government is implementing a price reduction of up to 20 percent on 24 basic goods sold at foreign-currency stores, including food products like ground meat, chicken and canned milk, as well as soap and toothpaste.
According to documents obtained by El Nuevo Herald, last Wednesday trade officials began implementing “centralized discounts” from five to [...]
