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Cuban Embargo

How One Cuban Blogger Is Changing Cuban Minds

Ignacio Sosa | Posted 04.15.2013 | World
Ignacio Sosa

I vowed never to return to Cuba until the country of my birth was free -- an unlikely proposition given the strong grip of the Cuban government on virtually all aspects of life on the island. Ms. Sanchez has changed my view on the future of Cuba.

Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Me: Our Trips to Cuba

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 04.13.2013 | World
Isabel Kaplan

Not one to be left out of the discussion, Jay-Z just dropped a new track called "Open Letter" (produced by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz) in which he discusses his recent trip to Cuba. He raps: "I'm in Cuba, I love Cubans/ This talk about Communism is so confusing." I feel ya, Jay-Z.

Rubio's Zoo: A Response to Marco Rubio's Views on Travel to Cuba

Vanessa Garcia | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics
Vanessa Garcia

In your speech you criticize Senators who go to Cuba and return with the realization that our embargo is a "relic of the cold war." The truth is that both are relics -- the Castro regime and American policy towards Cuba.

Ten New Year's Resolutions for U.S. Policy Towards Latin America

Lisa Haugaard | Posted 03.06.2013 | World
Lisa Haugaard

If we could keep these resolutions, 2013 would be a banner year for U.S.-Latin American relations.

The Embargo: Both Sides Are Still Living Out the Cold War

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.14.2013 | World
Yoani Sanchez

Year after year the issue of the U.S. embargo against Cuba is presented in the United Nations. Year after year, the majority of countries votes against this fossil of the Cold War.

Cuba Loosens Grip on Economy (VIDEO)

Alexander Ragir | Posted 12.12.2012 | World
Alexander Ragir

The Cuban government is relaxing its grip on the island's socialist economy, allowing the legal creation of private enterprise for the first time sinc...

The Virtual Black Hole Of Havana

Tyler Wetherall | Posted 08.05.2012 | Travel
Tyler Wetherall

All I wanted was to tell my family that I hadn't passed out on the Cuban pavement in a rum stupor. I didn't know it was possible to run out of internet.

An American In Cuba

Tyler Wetherall | Posted 07.03.2012 | Travel
Tyler Wetherall

A great many flout the ban and travel here illegally, flying to Mexico or Canada from where they can buy a ticket to Cuba. And the chance of getting caught is slim.

Wanted -- A New Cuba Policy

Rajan Menon | Posted 04.26.2012 | World
Rajan Menon

Havana still rejects the principle of far-reaching political change as a precondition for scrapping the embargo. There's no reason to expect a change of heart, particularly because other major economic powers' willingness to trade with and invest in Cuba has made the American boycott less painful.

The United States Needs America More Than Ever

Monica Gutierrez | Posted 06.15.2012 | Latino Voices
Monica Gutierrez

When you say "America" everywhere else in the world, the word makes unequivocal reference to the whole concept: including North, Central, South America, the Caribbean, and the adjacent islands.

End the Embargo, End Castro Regime's Excuse for All Its Failures

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.25.2011 | World
Yoani Sanchez

I hope that today's vote in the UN is favorable toward those of us who wish such absurdity to end, especially we who consider the end of the embargo as a definitive blow to the authoritarianism under which we live.

The Long Distance Run-Around

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 09.20.2011 | World
Margarita Alarcon

To say that one state controls US policy towards Cuba is in fact silly and insane. Its not one state, its worse.

Yoani Sánchez Forbidden by Cuba to Collect Her Award; CEPOS Freedom Prize Presented in Absentia

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 07.05.2011 | World
Thor Halvorssen

Yoani Sánchez -- the world-renowned Cuban blogger and philologist -- will be honored here with the inaugural Freedom Award by CEPOS. But there's one oddity: Yoani is forbidden to leave her country to accept the award.

Made in Cuba

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 06.27.2011 | World
Margarita Alarcon

Mother's Day is a few weeks away and Havana is all geared up for the merchandizing aspect of the day. In the past, due to scarcities, the embargo and...

Bureaucracy: A Week of Enduring the Cuban System

The Morningside Post | Posted 06.06.2011 | World
The Morningside Post

Why did the most mundane of tasks require going from place to place and person to person, and waiting in numerous lines?

Cuba

Ray Suarez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Ray Suarez

In many ways the embargo, what the Cubans call "El Bloqueo," "the Blockade," is increasingly honored in the breach.

Julia Stiles and Me, An Embrace is Possible

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Yoani Sanchez

The snack bar on 13th between F and G -- that afternoon on December -- is full of security agents and admirers. The first are the ones who follow this...

Christmas Returns to Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Yoani Sanchez

To go to work on December 25, to have school on New Year's Eve or to be called to "voluntary labor" as the year drew to a close -- all this was possible in an ideologically fervent Cuba.

The Mandarins Come By Boat

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Yoani Sanchez

What days those were -- when no one had to bring us, from a far off continent, what our own Cuban earth could produce.

The Lack of Memory of Cuban-American Congress Members

John McAuliff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
John McAuliff

Suffering, confrontation, revenge and a visceral hatred toward the Cuban people is the only legacy that our Cuban American Reps. Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Albio Sires, and Sen. Bob Menendez can be proud of.

DANCE: American Ballet Theatre Performs In Cuba For First Time In 50 years

Yahoo! News | Wed Aug 18, 2:36pm | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

NEW YORK (AFP) -- American Ballet Theater, one of the leading US classical dance companies, will perform in Havana, Cuba this year for the first time ...

Internal and External Walls Block Cubans From Internet Sites

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Yoani Sanchez

Those who govern us have satellite antennas in their homes, broadband, open Internet, iPhones full of applications, while we -- the citizens -- trip over screens that say "this service is not available in your country."

Political Grandstanding in US Prevents Economic Opportunity in Cuba

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rep. Mike Honda

The longer we keep Cuba listed as a state sponsor of terrorism, an allegation roundly criticized by diplomats, the more we risk the credibility of our national security regime and reputation in the region.

Obama and Castro: Sparring Over Human Rights

Martha Burk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Martha Burk

We seem destined to continued the 50-plus year dance of mutual animosity between the U.S. and Cuba. The U.S. trade embargo will continue. The war of words will not abate.

Big Ag Takes Aim at Cuban Embargo

Barth Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Barth Anderson

You have to give Big Ag its due: Big Soy and friends are pushing hard to end the ridiculous US embargo of Cuba.