May First, International Labor Day, is the most important date for workers in the entire world, or, more precisely, in almost the entire world, because, as we know, it is not officially… Read More...
The shocking story of Yasiel Puig's hazardous journey from Cuba to the Los Angeles Dodgers calls for congressional hearings to end the trafficking in Cuban athletes, carve an exemption… Read More...
An official statement issued Wednesday (April 30) by the Russian Foreign Ministry says that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held an "informal" meeting with Fidel Castro. The Ministry has… Read More...
The Paris Club traveled discreetly to Havana. Both parties have shown interest in renegotiating the Cuban debt. Cuba and the EU will hold negotiations soon that should reduce the 1996… Read More...
All three Cuban-American members of the U.S. Senate -- Robert Menéndez, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz – wish they could say truthfully that their parents “fled Castro's Cuba". The… Read More...
A current is emerging in the U.S. attitude toward Cuba that appears more favorable to improved relations. In November, Obama told the Cuban American lobby that U.S. strategy ought to… Read More...
The news, delivered from island authorities to the charter companies who carry passengers to Cuba, was that persons with passports not updated and current would not be allowed to enter… Read More...
The man walked to the nearest traffic light and unfolded a cardboard sign. He ruffled his hair, looked sad, and raised the sign to his chest so that anyone standing nearby could read… Read More...
As part of a whirlwind diplomatic tour, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Wednesday (April 23) in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and prepared to… Read More...
In the U.S., between 70,000 and 80,000 people undergo amputation of diabetic foot every year and Cuba has developed a medication that helps in the healing of diabetic-foot ulcers and… Read More...