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GOP Senator Rand Paul accuses party of hypocrisy on the deficit
For decades, Republicans have postured as deficit hawks. Senator Rand Paul, in a marathon speech against his own party’s budget bill, asked how Republicans could decry deficits when…
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U.S. diplomat expelled from Bolivia gets Cuba post
An American diplomat who was expelled from Bolivia for reportedly meddling in the host country's domestic politics will leave Washington for Havana and become the United States' new…
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19 more phantoms impede travel to Cuba
If you are the U.S. State Department in the age of Trump, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants to ramp up the scare meter on Cuba travelers, you continue to hype the secretive…
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State of disunion
The president who has done more than any other to polarize this already divided nation delivered his first State of the Union speech last week. The partisan chasm, one of many rifts in…
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Hemispheric affairs post, long vacant, may soon be filled
Kimberly Breier will be appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, "multiple sources" have told The Global Americans, a research and analysis website…
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Gross rejects Trump plan to launch ‘task force’ into Cuban cyberspace
Alan Gross, the elderly American who tried to smuggle electronic equipment into Cuba to start an unauthorized Internet system, reacted to the U.S. plan to convene a Cuba Internet Task…
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Trump’s divide and conquer strategy
Trump has intentionally cleaved America into two warring camps: pro-Trump and anti-Trump. The Republican Party used to stand for fiscal responsibility, state’s rights, free trade, and a…
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Cuba’s dual currency is due for revision
During the sessions of the National Assembly in December, the Cuban government reprised the discussion about the importance of moving toward a new monetary and exchange system. While a…
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Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart is dead by suicide
Fidel Castro’s oldest son, 68-year-old Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, who was being treated by a group of doctors for several months due to a deep depression, committed suicide early…
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Non-state sector in Cuba: Back to the past?
When in December 2017 the Cuban government released details of the new rules -- still not approved -- for self-employed labor and non-agricultural cooperatives, many of us remembered…
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