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New regulations will take effect on Monday for doing business and traveling to Cuba. And although the embargo is still in place, President Barack Obama continues to chip away in areas…
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José Ramón Rodríguez Cabañas became Cuba’s first ambassador to the United States since 1961, on Thursday, Sept. 17.
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The Havana-based Enterprise of Recordings and Musical Editions (EGREM) and Sony Music Entertainment announced on Tuesday that they have entered into a licensing agreement for the…
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Cuban President Raúl Castro is expected to address the United Nations General Assembly on the afternoon of Sept. 28, a revised U.N. speakers list revealed on Tuesday. President Obama…
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At the Vatican on Sunday (Sept. 13), about 50 inmates from Rome's Rebibbia Prison attended the noontime prayers at the Sistine Chapel at the invitation of Pope Francis. They were…
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Cuba's minister of Transportation, César Ignacio Arocha Macid, has been replaced by Adel Yzquierdo Rodríguez, the current First Vice Minister of the Economy and Planning.
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While in Beijing last week, Cuban Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel gave an interview to the Spanish edition of The People's Daily. Progreso Weekly has translated some excerpts.
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Kim Jong Un, North Korea's supreme leader, met in Pyongyang with Cuban Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel, reported the website Cubadebate.
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Cuban doctors and other health workers who defected while abroad on state-sponsored missions can return to the homeland and resume their careers without fear of retribution, the Cuban…
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Self-employed entrepreneurs can apply to the People's Savings Bank of Cuba for loans of as much as 10,000 Cuban pesos (377 dollars at the current rate of exchange), the AIN news agency…
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