Cuba

The 14-piece Brown University Jazz Band has been spending this week in Havana on a cultural exchange that brings them in personal contact with musicians of the island.
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The Most Rev. John R. Manz, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, is visiting two Cuban dioceses to examine pastoral projects that have received funding from the United States Conference of…
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Foreign ministers from the European Union countries will postpone a debate about EU relations with Cuba until further notice, the news agency EFE reported.
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Law No. 315 governing self-employment has been published in Cuba's Official Gazette, the daily Granma reported detailing punishments to those who do not observe the regulations.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday asked the Vatican to help win the release of a Jewish-American contractor Alan Gross who has been in a Cuban jail since 2009.
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An article in The National Interest ponders why the organizers of Nelson Mandela’s memorial service invited Raúl Castro to be one of only six foreign leaders to speak at the ceremony.
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Colombian officials and leftist rebels resumed peace talks Monday in Havana, Cuba, with the insurgent group urging voters to use upcoming elections to reject right-wing candidates.
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Unproductive and/or inefficient state-run enterprises were warned that they could be shut down or turned over to self-employed workers if they didn't mend their ways.
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Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Sunday (Jan. 12) ended a four-day official visit to Cuba that sought to broaden trade relations with the island.
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It seems peculiar that the State Department assigned an acting deputy assistant to deal with the head of the MINREX's U.S. Division during the U.S.-Cuba Migration Accords.
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