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November 20, 2009
Democrats and Republicans deployed their heavy artillery Thursday in a heated congressional hearing to debate a bill seeking to end the travel ban to Cuba.
Part of a Cuban blogger’s essay that advocates lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba was read aloud at a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing. – Yoani Sánchez
November 19, 2009
Obama answers top Cuban blogger – Yoani Sanchez
70% of Cuba’s Farmland Threatened by Erosion
Who seriously wants the Cuban trade embargo?
November 18, 2009
Report: Cuba’s human rights as abused under Raúl Castro as Fidel
The Cuban ties that bind, 50 years on – Visiting her father’s homeland under newly relaxed travel restrictions is both invigorating and saddening.
Poll: Cubans ‘frustrated’ over life in Cuba – A poll conducted in Cuba shows residents unhappy with their government and pessimistic about the economy.
November 16, 2009
Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years
November 13, 2009
Fidel Castro’s long goodbye – The ailing former leader of Cuba remains true to his word: ‘I am a revolutionary, and revolutionaries do not retire.’
Cuban blogger’s husband out to avenge her assault – Yoani Sanchez
November 11, 2009
SEPTETO NACIONAL IGNACIO PIÑEIRO DIRECT FROM CUBA: 2 SHOWS – Thursday November 19th at 8pm & 10:30pm (2 Shows) – NYC
November 10, 2009
The pitcher who helped Cuba defeat the Baltimore Orioles in the United States a decade ago is in stable condition after his face was crushed with a blunt object while trying to stop a fight. -Norge Luis Vera
Photographer’s work helped defuse Cuban Missile Crisis – RIP William B. Ecker
Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media
Cubans Warily Test Their New Freedom To Criticize
Cuba’s blogosphere has taken on a decidedly harsher face in recent months, an act of online defiance in the face of government retribution.
US State Dept ‘deplores assault’ on Cuban bloggers
November 9, 2009
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march
November 7, 2009
CNN’s Rick Sanchez Interviews Juanita Castro: “While you were still in Cuba and your brother was beginning a Marxist revolution, you were not only cooperating with the CIA, but you were protecting CIA agents who were inside Cuba at the time.”
November 6, 2009
Miami sports agent who aided in defections freed from jail – Juan Ignacio Hernández Nodar, a Miami sports agent who served 13 years for trying to help Cuban baseball stars defect, will fly home Friday.
November 4, 2009
Could the U.S.-Cuba Travel Ban End Soon?
After 76 years, a return engagement for Cuba’s Septeto Nacional
October 29, 2009
The head of the World Health Organization says Fidel Castro looks stronger and wonderful for his 83 years.
October 28, 2009
Statement by Sarah Stephens, Center for Democracy in the Americas, UN Vote on Cuba embargo – After UN Embargo Vote, Obama Should Push Further, Faster on Cuba Policy Reforms
Independent bloggers school opens in Cuba
October 26, 2009
U.N. Vote to Condemn (Obama’s?) Embargo on Cuba
Fidel Castro’s younger sister, Juanita, now living in Miami, reveals in a Univisión-Noticias 23 report on her new book that she worked with the CIA while living in Cuba.
October 17, 2009
Más mujeres en estructuras de poder de Cuba
Cuba allows U.S. access to jailed dual citizens – While Cuba recently gave a State Department official permission to visit jailed U.S.-Cuban citizens, travel restrictions remain in place.
A steep drop in U.S. payments for telephone calls to Cuba may have been caused by Cuban Americans’ growing travel to the island, the U.S. economic crisis or increased Internet communications
October 14, 2009
A small Miami-based company said the U.S. government has given it permission to lay the first optical communications fiber from the U.S. to Cuba. That could drastically cut the cost of calling the island nation and make the Internet more accessible to Cubans.
A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize. – Yoani Sanchez
U.S.-Cuba travel picking up steam – Bills in Congress to allow all travel to Cuba are increasingly drawing support among U.S. lawmakers and the public — but they still face an uncertain future.
Faced with a deep recession, Cuba tries socialism lite – scaling back socialism in an attempt to save it
October 13, 2009
Luis Armando Pena Soltren: Hijacker Arrested At JFK Airport 40 Years After Diverting Plane To Cuba
October 12, 2009
Cuban public health authorities reported the first three deaths from the AH1N1 flu virus on the island and said that to date 621 cases of the disease have been confirmed.
Yoani Sánchez: ‘‘Mi vida está en otra Cuba, no en otra parte”
October 9, 2009
Jose Luis Rodriguez, President and CEO of Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Inc. Announces the preview and launching of a new television series ‘ENLACE CUBA’
Cuba loses $149 million annually in agricultural exports due to the 47-year-old U.S. economic embargo against the communist-ruled island, officials said.
October 7, 2009
Love child turned critic, a daughter of Fidel Castro told a Widener University audience Monday that lifting 50-year embargoes imposed by the United States would do little to help suffering people in Cuba. – Alina Fernandez
According to Carmelo Mesa, a Cuban economist who’s a visiting professor at Tulane University in the United States, Venezuela bankrolled Cuba to the tune of $9.4 billion last year. This includes $2 billion to take account of the cost of subsidizing Venezuelan oil exports to Cuba. Venezuela sends oil to Cuba at a “preferential” price of just $27 a barrel.
October 5, 2009
Eduardo Matías López Ferrer, abogado cubano residente en México, lleva dos décadas asesorando legalmente y ofreciendo albergue y apoyo a los indocumentados cubanos que llegan al país por diferentes vías
Legal travel to and from Cuba is booming, even though the Obama administration has not officially changed any rules regarding nonfamily travel to the island.
Pianist Alfredo Rodriguez’s journey of note – With enthusiastic backers like Quincy Jones on his side, the young musician made the tough decision to defect from Cuba. Performing at the Bowl’s Gustavo Dudamel concert is just the beginning.
October 2, 2009
Nostalgia Corner: Why the Bolero Was Censored in Cuba
October 1, 2009
Who’s Really Hurt by America’s Travel Ban to Cuba?
A poll showed that most Cuban-Americans now approve of the concert that Juanes put together in Havana.
September 30, 2009
A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, raising hopes for a thaw in long-icy relations.
September 29, 2009
Cucu Diamantes Show Canceled After Juanes’s Paz Sin Fronteras Concert in Cuba
Cuba admits failure to pay farmers on time
Juanita Castro, the exiled sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, is set to release a first-person memoir in which she talks at length about her brothers.
September 28, 2009
When it comes to crafting Cuba policy, Congress has been in the back seat of late. The sweeping new rules released last month that loosen the 49-year-old U.S. embargo against the island came from the executive branch and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
September 24, 2009
Barack Obama’s call for action on climate change and his admission that rich nations have a particular responsibility to lead has received strong praise from an unusual source – U.S. nemesis Fidel Castro.
A Miami radio station broadcast Tuesday a recording of a heated discussion Colombian rocker Juanes had with Cuban authorities a few hours before his concert “Peace Without Borders” in Havana. – In the recording, Juanes complained about the constant surveillance he had been under since his arrival Friday.
Western Union lanza campaña sobre envío de remesas a Cuba
A day after Juanes show, emotions in Miami still mixed
Last week marked the beginning of a sea change in U.S. and Cuba cooperation on the environment. Our Oceans team invited and secured visas for a delegation of Cuban scientists to come to the U.S. for meetings with EDF and other partners.
September 22, 2009
Fidel Castro calificó como “extraordinario” concierto de Juanes en Cuba
Juanes afirma que el concierto fue ‘un mensaje para la comunidad cubana y la región’
Rifirrafe de Miguel Bosé y Juanes antes del concierto por la paz
September 21, 2009
En aumento las patentes de Cuba en Estados Unidos
Exiliados cubanos se mostraron divididos el domingo respecto al concierto del cantante colombiano Juanes en la Plaza de la Revolución, en La Habana, que hasta último momento encendió pasiones y enfrentamientos en Miami.
Juanes in Havana:`This is the power of music’ – Hundreds of thousands of revelers filled Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution on Sunday for Juanes’ historic mega-concert, while in Miami, exiles watched on TV with mixed emotions.
“Paz sin Fronteras” no afecta relaciones con EEUU
Juanes Sings in Havana For “One Cuban Family” – Yoani Sánchez at HuffPo
September 19, 2009
Concert ‘without borders’ not without politics – After weeks of controversy, pop star Juanes performs Sunday in a country where even entertainment has becomea great divider.
September 18, 2009
Cuba gears up for Juanes mega-concert
September 17, 2009
Spanish Broadcasting System (“SBS”) announced today that Mega TV will cover Juanes’ “Paz sin Fronteras” concert in Havana on Sunday, September 20 from 6:00-9:00 P.M. (ET) and 7:00-10:00 P.M. (PT).
Dominicanos pagan por concierto de Juanes en La Habana
Cuba will not make any political or policy concessions to improve relations with the U.S. – no matter how small, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Wednesday, snubbing Washington’s suggestions that some reforms could lead to better ties.
A Havana singer who will take part in the Juanes concert Sunday has said that exiled Cuban artists should be allowed to perform on the island and criticized the notorious jailing of a Havana man for his drunken complaint of widespread hunger as “an awful error.” – Amaury Pérez
Direct mail to Havana, but what about cell phones?
September 15, 2009
Fidel Castro’s new `tropical business casual’ look is a signal — but of what? – known for being deliberate with his image, might be signaling new health with his new look — but his motive is the source of much speculation.
HITN – TV Makes History and Airs Live ‘Paz Sin Fronteras’ – A historic concert of Juanes and fellow musicians together from Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana-Cuba
Danny Rivera latest Puerto Rican to join Juanes’ lineup for Cuba gig
September 14, 2009
President Obama has extended the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba for one year
Some people living to bring back the past – commentary on Cuba
Cuban Exile’s Plan for a Ferry From Miami to Havana Is Awaiting U.S. Approval
If Cuba embargo ended, U.S. businesses ready for rush, but not island – While U.S. companies dream of a post-embargo Cuba, infrastructure woes, a lack of financing and Cuba’s legal system may present challenges.
September 10, 2009
A U.S.-based journalist watchdog group called Thursday for an end to what it described as “systemic harassment” of bloggers and independent journalists in Cuba, and urged the international community to step up its lobbying on the bloggers’ behalf.
Cuba has authorized public Internet access at post offices across the country, though it has yet to apply what would be a landmark loosening of cyberspace rules in a nation where information is strictly controlled.
“Concierto Paz Sin Fronteras” (Peace Without Borders Concert) – NEWS RELEASE On Behalf of JUANES and The Cuban Music Institute
September 9, 2009
South Florida has seen a surge in trips to Cuba as new U.S. policies toward Havana take shape.
September 8, 2009
From truffles to fox furs, U.S. ships more than food to Cuba – Despite a rigid embargo that has spanned half a century, the United States is playing a major role in feeding Cuba.
Artistas de Puerto Rico apoyarán el concierto del colombiano Juanes en La Habana, que levantó airadas protestas en Miami, con un evento simultáneo por la paz y amistad con Cuba, el 20 de septiembre, informó este martes uno de los organizadores.
Human rights groups are outraged that a Cuban who created an online sensation by interrupting a video interview has been sentenced to two years for his actions.
September 3, 2009
A federal judge ordered the Cuban government and the ruling Communist Party on Wednesday to pay $27.5 million in damages to a Kentucky woman whose journalist son has been jailed since a 2003 crackdown on dissent.
U.S. blame for Cuba healthcare not likely to create sympathy
September 2, 2009
Cuba embargo law set to expire — but it doesn’t mean much
Juanes to Pay $300,000 to Cover Concert Costs in Cuba
September 1, 2009
An ‘exciting’ cancer drug developed in Cuba is being tested in the United States — but it won’t be sold here unless there is a change in the embargo law.
U.S., Cuba will discuss revival of direct mail
The 47-year-old Cuban embargo continues to divide exiles depending on their age and other factors, and long-standing support among some in the community might be eroding, a poll showed.
Calle 13 aún no decide si acompañar a Juanes en Cuba
Dramatic drop in Cuban migrants arriving in Florida, economics, law enforcement likely reasons
Author Tells Of A 90s Cuba – Achy Obejas
August 27, 2009
La artista cubano-estadounidense Gloria Estefan dijo en una entrevista publicada hoy que si diera un concierto en La Habana, se generaría violencia, porque no se callaría lo que piensa del régimen, y subrayó que su sueño sigue siendo cantar “en una Cuba libre”.
Carolina La O defiende a Juanes
Cuba faces toilet paper shortage
