Cuba

By Jeff Franks HAVANA, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The wife of an American contractor detained in communist Cuba on suspicion of espionage was allowed to visit her husband last month in the…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy From A Correspondent's Notebook Deflating payrolls is the equivalent of firing workers. To deflate half a million active workers from a 5,027,900 workforce over…
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By Elsa Claro Will private individuals be allowed to import? The question appears in a news item filed from Havana by an experienced correspondent, in a preview of the changes coming…
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By Fernando Ravsberg From BBC/Mundo A few years ago, I took part in a debate on a European radio and one of the Cubans on the panel spoke wonders about pre-revolutionary Cuba, its…
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By Shasta Darlington Havana, Cuba (CNN) Cuba announced on Monday it would lay off "at least" half a million state workers over the next six months and simultaneously allow more jobs to…
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By Jeffrey Goldberg (This is the second of a series of articles from the magazine the Atlantic.) There were many odd things about my recent Havana stopover (apart from the dolphin show,…
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By Marta Rojas From Cubadebate In spring of 1960, a young American named Saul Landau traveled to Cuba for the first time. His stay was extended until the start of autumn. He…
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By Jeffrey Goldberg From The Atlantic (Editor’s Note: Progreso Weekly has changed the headline of this excellent article after determining that the original version was misleading.…
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By Mercedes Varona In 2007, the Cuban authorities expressed their decision to introduce changes in the economic model, as a result of the deterioration of some indicators that make up…
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By Carmen Lira Saade (Extracts from interview with Fidel Castro published by the Mexican daily La Jornada) HAVANA – He spent four years struggling between life and death, in and…
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