While U.S. policy toward Cuba has opened up since President Barack Obama took office, a new report from Public Campaign, an organization dedicated to ...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment
I cannot recall the last time I experienced such an incredibly ebullient performance of such vitality and vigor, such precision and beauty, as Paco Pena's A Compas (Primal Pulse).
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
For the 18th consecutive year, the General Assembly condemned the US embargo against Cuba. But this was the first vote since President Obama took office, and everyone listened for hints of change.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
"I was raised by two people who had lost their country," explains Glenn Llopis, a California-based entrepreneur with Cuban parents. "We were taught to see and seize opportunity."
Reuters | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
HAVANA (Reuters) - The number of Cuban Americans visiting Cuba is up 20 percent so far this year and will likely keep rising as Washington eases trave...
Sarah Stephens | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
Travel to Cuba for just for Cuban-Americans, keeps in place a policy whereby most Americans can travel to Iran or North Korea but cannot get to Cuba without a license. It doesn't make sense.
Reuters | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
Cuba is open to talks with the United States about "everything" including political prisoners, President Raul Castro said on Thursday, a major softeni...
Howie Klein | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
Biden has said that he and President Obama want the Cuban people to "live in freedom." But what exactly does that mean?
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
Amid increasing excitement in the Cuban-American community, President Obama today finally made official his reversal of Bush administration travel res...
Andy Schupak | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
The end of the blockade, the Cuban people feel, will bring American tourists with the money and freedom needed to create a new beginning for Cuba.
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — In a measured break with a half-century of U.S. policy toward communist Cuba, the Obama administration lifted restrictions Monday o...
Reuters | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
Cuban authorities accused blogger Yoani Sanchez on Wednesday of staging a "provocation against the Cuban Revolution" after she and others spoke public...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
The Cuban press barely mentioned this positive step taken by Obama to ease the limitations on travel to the Island for Cuban Americans. An official silence was the only response to this measure.
Miami Herald | LESLEY CLARK AND FRANCES ROBLES | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
The 1,128-page budget bill that will begin to work its way through Congress this week contains key paragraphs that alter the shape of U.S.-Cuba policy...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics
In area after area for Obama, much goodwill can be garnered simply by embracing common sense. Call it cheap grace. A good place to start would be with changing our preposterous policy towards Cuba.
David Paul Appell | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics
The brothers Castro have outfoxed ten U.S. presidents, thanks partly to the embargo put in place by John Kennedy in 1961, before Barack Obama was born. Chances are they won't outlast an eleventh.
VOA News | Brian Wagner | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
A new U.S. public opinion poll shows long-time support for the U.S. embargo against Cuba is falling among the Cuban-American community in Miami. VOA's...
Stephen Elliott | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Ron Levitt | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home
MIAMI -- Unless Democratic voters get over-confident and stay home on Nov. 4th, Florida will become a Blue State and provide 27 electoral votes to ...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
As the home of GOP-linked individuals known to advocate and use violence to advance their cause, South Florida is not the best place for Republicans to talk tough on terrorism.
Joe Garcia | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
The greatest impediment to the wellbeing of the Cuban people is the Cuban government itself. But this fact does not give us license to throw our hands in the air and not offer our help.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
McCain's reliance on a failed, hard-line policy toward Cuba will not carry the weight with a very different Florida Hispanic electorate it once did.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Pandering to certain voting blocs is part of every election. And the 2008 race for the White House is certainly no different. But the Florida Republic...
Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 11.16.2009 | World