2011-11-30 03:16
Russia and Cuba are planning to sign a contract on building an assembly line for production of ammunition for Kalashnikov assault rifles, Kommersant business daily reported on Wednesday. Acc… Read More
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2011-11-22 13:26
The Castro regime's announcement that for the first time Cuban citizens will be able to buy and sell their own homes has spurred an outpouring of irrational exuberance that real change is fi… Read More
2011-11-17 05:38
Cuba recently accused the United States of enabling illegal Internet connections in its territory and said several people were arrested in April for profiting from the wireless networks. G… Read More
2011-11-12 04:35
Cuba—to listen to, watch or read some of the media—is a place that has remained unbowed in the face of impoverishment by the U.S. embargo. Lately what you hear is that it is at… Read More
2011-10-31 09:59
The Ladies in White march in Havana, Cuba Relatives of political prisoners in Cuba--many of them women--are fighting to curb abuses they say family members suffer during incarceration. One o… Read More
2011-10-25 15:46
Although Cuba's Fidel Castro, as one of the fathers of revolution, continues to verbally assault the U.S. and essential democratic principles, Cuba is playing it safe and cautious not to sta… Read More
2011-10-23 11:07
The Freedom House report on Cuba released today finds that Cubans see real economic change there, and more Cubans now would rather work for themselves than hold once-prized state jobs.When R… Read More
2011-10-20 11:44
The mere fact of hearing it on television petrifies me, but listening to the president of my county has been illuminating, because in revolutionary Cuba there are issues so ethereal that t… Read More
2011-10-18 02:22
Directly affecting a core player in Cuba’s ambitious golf development plans and a major port expansion, the top executive of a British investment fund was arrested in Havana amid an in… Read More
2011-10-16 08:16
Today, all of Cuba grieves for the passing of Laura Pollan, the co-founder of las Damas de Blanco (The Ladies in White). For nearly a decade, she helped to stage weekly protests with other w… Read More
2011-10-14 08:58
Havana Malecon, summer 1994 This bicoastal discussion with a colleague began on Twitter. We are often — to avoid the absolutes — on different sides of most issues. This one excha… Read More
2011-10-11 07:44
Cubans continue to "vote" against the Cuban regime The number of Cubans intercepted at sea trying to reach the coast of Florida more than doubled in the last fiscal year according to figures… Read More
2011-10-08 12:26
Before increasing investment in oil and construction on the island, Vietnam wants Cuba to find a way to its debt with rice exporter Vinafood and allow the opening of a Vietcombank office in… Read More
2011-10-06 02:47
Summary By purchasing and shipping new Cuba capable cell phones, we are boosting connectivity among youth in Cuba. With these modern tools, youth in Cuba can start… Read More
2011-10-02 09:42
Cuba’s 52-year nightmare is about to end with the death of the last of Latin America’s old time dictators. In the long run it is hard to see how the demise of the old caudillo ca… Read More
2011-09-30 05:38
The worrying situation of the recently detained Cuban dissidents remains the same. Of the women arrested after a peaceful march through the streets of Rio Verde, Havana, very little is know… Read More
2011-09-28 12:09
Activists marching at Río Verde. Photo courtesy of Hablemos Press. Cuban hip-hop artists Julio León Fonseca (Julito) and Rodolfo Ramírez Hernández (El Primario) w… Read More
2011-09-26 13:30
These are scary times for tyrants. Some of the world's most enduring dictatorships, the ones that looked as though they would never end, have met their demise in recent months. For now, the… Read More
2011-09-23 14:09
Yoani Sanchez Yoani Sanchez, the Cuban dissident and world-renowned blogger, called on the phone from Havana today to address the We Have A Dream: Global Summit Against Discrimination and Pe… Read More
2011-09-21 11:30
JFK and Jackie -1960 While most of the media have focused on the Jackie Kennedy tapes as they pertain to such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Baines Johnson, there are fa… Read More
2011-09-19 16:36
Cuba has shut down one of the most important western trading companies in the country as an investigation into alleged corrupt import-export practices broadened to a second Canadian firm, fo… Read More
2011-09-17 13:04
Social networks and media outlets have been spreading rumors on Fidel Castro's alleged death the past few weeks.. The speculations started in early August after an infected virus-email depi… Read More
2011-09-15 15:14
A dissident signs the letter "L" for the Spanish word "libertad" or freedom as he is detained by police during a procession celebrating Cuba's patron saint in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Sept… Read More
2011-09-13 10:02
The church has been surrounded by a tight cordon of police forces. A top Cuban church official told CBS News the situation created by a Pentecostal pastor who has barricaded himself along wi… Read More
2011-09-11 13:42
The Communist Cuban dictatorship is draining hundreds of millions of dollars from America's already financially strapped Medicare program and using the money to finance its military and es… Read More
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