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Russian senators will visit Cuba this week
A delegation of Russian senators, members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly, was scheduled to arrive in Havana Saturday (April 19) for a week of meetings with top Cuban…
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From the Bay of Pigs to the ‘Bay of Tweets’
Last week, the John F. Kennedy Library marked the 53rd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, a CIA covert operation with the goal of overthrowing the Castro government. No wonder…
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A passion named Fidel
The first time Gabriel García Márquez heard the name of Fidel Castro was in 1955. Then in 1959 he helped found the Prensa Latina agency. Since then, his relationship with Cuba and Fidel…
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Russia, Cuba perform joint audit of business deal
The Cuban government went on record this week to warn all levels of its import structure that it will not permit mismanagement in Havana's dealings with Moscow.
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Gabriel García Márquez and the Cuban Five
Gabriel García Márquez, the famed Colombian novelist who died April 17, 2014, played a fascinating cameo role in the story of the Cuban Five. In the spring of 1998, he carried a secret…
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Chinese foreign minister will visit 4 Latin American countries
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay visits to Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil from April 19 to 26. The visit aims to advance China's relations with Latin American nations.
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Jeb Bush: Snake oil salesman
As Jeb Bush travels the country espousing his family’s “compassionate conservative” side, the fact is that his carefully manicured words are just part of a much larger, national agenda…
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Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel prize-winning author, dies at 87
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality, died at…
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On the trail of the missing condoms
The iffy supply of condoms in Cuban pharmacies and markets in recent months has meant greater risk for some and an impediment to others who prefer to restrain their libidos rather than…
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Mariel, 34 years ago
The port of Mariel, situated on a beautiful bay of the same name, on the northwestern coast of Cuba, has become news recently. But its international fame came long before, when, exactly…
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