Odds and ends 27 Aug 2013 | 02:47 am

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Herald: The UN is awaiting an invitation to Havana to talk to Cuban officials about the North Korean freighter with w...

New digs 27 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I have started the Cuba Research Center, a new nonprofit organization where I’ll continue my work on economic and political issues related to Cub...

Snowden's Cuba problem 27 Aug 2013 | 01:12 am

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Reutersnotes a Russian newspaper report that NSA rat-on-the-run Edward Snowden got stuck i...

Odds and ends 20 Aug 2013 | 06:23 am

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Juventud Rebelde: There are now 436,432 Cubans working in the small entrepreneurial sector, nine percent more than we...

Visa news 1 Aug 2013 | 05:57 am

The State Department announced today that for certain Cubans who qualify, the United States will issue five-year multiple entry visas rather than six-month single-entry visas, as has been the custom u...

The hard part 31 Jul 2013 | 11:51 pm

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 “Now comes the hardest stage” of Cuba’s economic reform process, Vice President Diaz-Canel recently saidin Havana.  O...

Odds and ends 31 Jul 2013 | 11:49 pm

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Your tax dollars at work: American Express pays a $5.2 million fine because its offices ov...

Sancti Spiritus 31 Jul 2013 | 07:14 am

Havana's blunder 18 Jul 2013 | 03:19 am

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE If it was a chess move, there would be two question marks after it, the annotation for “blunder.” There seems little doubt that Cuba’s shipment ...

North Korean freighter seized in Panama 17 Jul 2013 | 12:51 am

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Well, this is interesting. A North Korean freighter that departed the Russian far east in April and visited Cuba was seized and searched in Pan....