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Minnie Minoso is dead; helped integrate Baseball in Career across 5 decades
Minnie Minoso, the hugely popular All-Star outfielder from Cuba who was the major leagues’ first black player out of Latin America and a treasured figure in the history of the Chicago…
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Meet the Cuban press
The nearly dozen journalists from half a dozen television, radio, print and digital outlets represented the largest assemblage of Cuban media in the United States in decades, according…
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Mexican company gets deal to invest in Cuba development zone
A Mexican meat processing firm has become the first international company to get approval for an investment project in Cuba's first special economic development area, Mexico's foreign…
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Josefina Vidal: ‘We have made progress’
Josefina Vidal cited the progress made during the press conference in Washington, at the conclusion of the second round of negotiations to restore diplomatic relations between the U.S.…
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Cuba: The weight of a long history
Beyond the immediate issues, Ms. Jacobson will certainly have a very heavy weight of history to consider in her discussions with her Cuban counterparts.
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Texas paid $2.2m for Garcia Marquez archive
The University of Texas' literary archive said Wednesday it paid $2.2 million for the works of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a price the school sought to keep secret until…
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Jeb no shoo-in as scope on him intensifies
Now there are many who believe that a Jeb Bush nomination is practically a done deal. It may be… But it won’t be easy.
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The Ecuadorean route
Susana -- let's call her that -- 32 years old and a licensed accountant, left Cuba for the United States but, starting in Ecuador and without any intention of being a tourist, had to…
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Giuliani: McCarthy redux
While many on the right hastened to justify or even applaud Giuliani, the White House had an understated and undeservedly generous reaction.
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Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment
He had been a fringe figure, known mostly to a small circle of black Muslims and big-city sophisticates, but now he was branching out — seeking allies at home and abroad to help him…
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