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Huffington Post: If you thought Cuba might one day be free of Castro, Ann Louise Bardach has another message for you. The following excerpts from her ...
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.
Jim Luce | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York
Vargas Llosa speaks about Barack Obama's Nobel Prize, the state of literature, inter-American relations and politics.
AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
MIAMI — One of Fidel Castro's sisters says in a memoir released Monday that she collaborated with the CIA against her brother, starting shortly ...
miamiherald.com | By JUAN O. TAMAYO | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- In the six months after the 9/11 attacks, up to 20 Cubans walked into U.S. embassies around the world and offered information on terrori...
Alec Baldwin | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
The embargo on Cuban travel should be lifted, at the very least, for cultural projects like the one by the Philharmonic that was just delayed by the U.S. Treasury. Who benefits from continuing this policy?
nytimes.com | WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
***UPDATE 9/22/09*** I haven't found another embeddable version yet, but sharp-eyed reader Mark points out that you can watch the video here. ***UPDA...
GQ | Wil S. Hylton | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
It has been nearly forty years since three young Democratic activists named Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, and Taylor Branch moved into a small apartme...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
Dying your hair blue, getting a tattoo or attaching a ring to your navel is no longer seen as an ideological debility. Signs have begun to sprout on bodies, of seduction and change.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Juan Juan Almeida brushed up against power and got scratched, without it doing him much good. His book, Memoirs of an Unknown Cuban Guerrilla, is the story of a brazen witness.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Since I left home in Cuba, I have learned to value autonomy, to distrust the subsidies and all these "gifts" that they constantly throw in the faces of citizens.
cnn.com | David Ariosto CNN | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- A new photo of ailing Communist leader Fidel Castro surfaced on Sunday -- the second in 10 days -- revealing a more healthy-look...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 09.13.2009 | World
To be reduced to the pages of a book, when once you held the microphone in front of a million people, must be a consolation as tasteless as the pap they administer to a patient.
AP | Posted 09.08.2009 | World
HAVANA — Cubans accustomed to hourslong speeches, thousand-word essays and lengthy interviews can now get Fidel Castro at a glance, thanks to a ...
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
Under cover of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Cuban authorities arrested and charged 75 prominent dissidents with being agents of "Yankee Imperialism," as shown in a new documentary.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 09.04.2009 | World
What would I love more than that my son would stay in Cuba. But I do not have a single convincing argument to tell him not to leave.
Boris Mamlyuk | Posted 09.02.2009 | World
Revolutions start with powerful ideas. The mode of transmission is secondary.
Guardian | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
It was smuggled through the US diplomatic pouch, secretly installed across the facade of a building overlooking Havana and tasked with a very specific...
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
Former "Saturday Night Live" star Victoria Jackson posted an incoherent rant against President Obama on Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood website on Tu...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
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...
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The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books