Cuba can no longer resell a portion of the barrels that come from Caracas and this -- along with the international financial problems -- has forced it to re-impose the cuts.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.26.2009 | Entertainment
Mostly celebrating jazz's 1959 frontier, six classic albums have been re-imagined as Legacy Editions, expanding each of the originals by adding an extra disc.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
I confess I prefer the restrained style, but there are a lot of explanations outstanding which, in the face of so much discontent, are urgent.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.21.2009 | World
This post is one in a weekly series in which I am introducing the writings of the wider Cuban blogosphere to Huffington Post Readers. Are We On Red ...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
Fidel Castro's son Antonio recently had his heart broken. It was revealed that his eight-month long online romance with "Claudia", a 27-year-old brune...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.16.2009 | World
For the Cuban government, which continues to measure its relations with its northern neighbor by our differences, the cycle of suspicion and discord shows no sign of coming to an end.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
After Raul, a disciplined group of senior army officers will likely rule Cuba in collective fashion.
Miami Herald | JUAN O. TAMAYO | Posted 07.14.2009 | World
One of Fidel Castro's sons carried on an eight-month flirtation over the Internet with a person he believed was a Colombian woman. Surprise! The woman...
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
With one of the lowest rates of HIV infection (.1%), Cuba is proud to be open and realistic about the issues that surround sex, and the younger the kids are educated, the better.
AP | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
GENEVA — Cuba's U.N. ambassador in Geneva says Human Rights Watch and other groups are "mercenaries" paid by the U.S. government. Juan Antonio ...
Miami Herald | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
As a couple accused of spying for Cuba head to federal court Wednesday, Cuba watchers say the latest case of espionage could crimp the Obama administr...
The Independent | Stephen Foley | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
He is said to have been the subject of some cartoonish plots over the years, from poisoned ice cream, mines disguised as sea shells and, of course, ex...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Hunting spies is difficult, but Cuban spies are notoriously hard to detect, former senior intelligence officials said a day after a...
CNN | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Cuba will not rejoin the Organization of American States, even though the multinational organization has lifted the 47-year-old suspension of the coun...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Forged in the logic of confrontation, a possible seat in the OAS appears to Cuban leaders as more dangerous than the barricades before which they feel so comfortable.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.30.2009 | Media
Just like the folks in Arkansas, you don't want a bunch of terrorists in your neighborhood, and no Senator wants to lose his job because he didn't vote against putting them there.
RIA Novosti | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Russia and Cuba have agreed to renew their cooperation in nuclear research with Cuba's Nuclear Energy Agency, head of Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko said on...
AP | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela could eventually withdraw from the Organization of American States and seek Cuba's hel...
David L. Wolper | Posted 06.24.2009 | World
Castro is no hero. The real Fidel Castro lied when he promised democracy, confiscated businesses large and small, and executed or jailed many of his fellow revolutionaries.
Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment
As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.
Reuters | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
The U.S. and Cuba governments have taken the first, tentative steps towards ending 50 years of hostilities, but the thawing of relations is already in...
Brad Balfour | Posted 06.06.2009 | Entertainment
Now that director Steven Soderbergh is in the public consciousness again with his intimate portrait of a high-class escort in The Girlfriend Experienc...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.01.2009 | World
Though May Day (also known as International Workers Day or Labor Day in different parts of the world) is supposed to be a day of celebration to mark a...
AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
HAVANA — Raul Castro dismissed Barack Obama's policy changes toward Cuba as "achieving only the minimum," and said Wednesday that it is up to th...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
Obama's first days will be compared to FDR's first 100 days. And to a lesser extent JFK's first 100 days. But the better comparison is with his predecessor George W. Bush.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.31.2009 | World