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Cuba: Notes on a history of best intentions
Even while strenuously working to destroy the Cuban revolution, U.S. presidents like to say that Cubans should decide their own future. But what if the Cuban people decided to choose…
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Culture Ministry tallies cost of U.S. blockade on arts and culture
Cuba's Ministry of Culture has quantified the amount of money Cuban artists have spent unnecessarily because of the U.S. trade blockade. It comes to 24 million dollars a year.
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On deaf ears: The Pope’s message and the radical right’s coup
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. There was very good news and very bad news in the United States the last few days.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary to travel to Havana next week
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will be in Havana Oct. 6-7, becoming the second U.S. Cabinet official to visit Cuba since President Obama called for the reestablishment of…
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Castro and Obama meet in New York (Video)
Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama met on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. It is the first meeting on U.S. soil between a Cuban and…
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Speech by Cuban President Raul Castro at UN General Assembly
Cuban President spoke at the UN General Assembly on Monday (Sept. 28) where he addressed such issues as the human rights, hunger and poverty, wars, the environment and other pertinent…
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Raúl carries on a busy agenda; meets with Putin
Presidents Raúl Castro of Cuba and Barack Obama of the United States will hold bilateral talks at the United Nations on Tuesday. A brief encounter between the Cuban president and his…
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Obama: ‘Embargo should not be in place anymore’
Excerpts from speech delivered Monday (Sept. 28) at the United Nations General Assembly by President Barack Obama.
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To be a refugee in Germany
If only they didn't have fear in their eyes, if they didn't eat so stealthily, if they didn't clutch their few belongings so tightly, the dozens of people who stepped down from the 9…
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The Francis effect and Dorothy Day
With incredible elegance and subtlety, Pope Francis left no stone standing on his journey to Washington and New York.
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