IPS

CUBA: ‘Forest Ranger’ Looks After Havana’s Trees

"It all began with the cutting of the ceiba," recalls Isbel Díaz, founder of the project "El Guardabosques"...

AP Analysis: Obama free to change US-Cuba policy

Barack Obama will be the first American president in nearly 50 years to have a relatively free hand in deci...

Cubans nabbed for hurricane-related crimes

Cubans allegedly have stolen everything from gasoline and cement to rice and powdered milk - one person was...

Why Castro regime fears Obama administration

Since Nov. 4, Cuba has been experiencing a bad case of the Obama Blues. The election of the United States' ...

La reforma laboral de Raúl Castro sigue atrasada y podría posponerse

La reforma laboral impulsada por el gobernante cubano, Raúl Castro, por la que los trabajadores reci...

EFE

Uno de cada tres acusados de especular y acaparar en La Habana fue a cárcel

Los Tribunales de La Habana han condenado a pena de cárcel al 34 por ciento de las personas enjuiciadas en ...

NEWSWEEK

For America's new Kennedy, a détente with Cuba's Castros

Barack Obama's inauguration is still nearly two months away, but you can already hear the thawing sound ove...

Mexico sends Cubans home under new accord

Mexico is sending illegal Cuban migrants home for the first time under a new accord aimed at cutting off an...

Putin sees no need for bases in Cuba, Venezuela

Vladimir Putin says he sees no need for Russia to build military bases in Cuba or Venezuela.

TRAVEL-UK

TRAVEL | Cuba's bicycle diaries

Our first morning in Cuba and I'm woken up by screams. Leaping naked from the bed, I fling open the bathroo...

ABC TV

Cuba softens stance toward Catholic church

Cuba’s government took a significant step toward improving relations with the Roman Catholic Church this pa...

REUTERS

Cuba ready to authorize GM corn crop: scientists

Cuba could soon authorize the planting of 124 acres of genetically-modified corn for the first time to help...

EFE

Cuba eyes big move into genetically modified crops

Cuba's Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center, or CIGB, said Tuesday that it is trying to obtain gene...

Cuba hosts Caribbean summit on financial crisis

Cuba has no plans to join the Caribbean Community regional trade bloc, but will next week host its leaders ...

Reporteros sin Fronteras nombra Periodista del Año al opositor cubano Ricardo González

El periodista cubano Ricardo González Alfonso, uno de los disidentes arrestados durante la primavera...

Huracanes dejaron en 2008 la peor agresión al ecosistema cubano en 50 años

El paso de tres huracanes en los últimos meses por el territorio de Cuba ha causado la peor agresi&...

Actores Del Toro, Santoro y Cabrera presentarán películas del Che en Cuba

El puertorriqueño Benicio del Toro y otros tres actores presentarán en el Festival de Cine ...

Ros-Lehtinen le cuelga el teléfono dos veces a Obama

Las bromas de la radio miamense tienen en máxima alerta a la congresista cubanoamericana Ileana Ros...

EFE

Gana premio reportero cubano encarcelado

El periodista cubano Ricardo González Alfonso, encarcelado en su país desde la llamada "primavera negra" de...

Una incógnita las próximas elecciones en Cuba

El presidente provisional de Cuba, Raúl Castro, convocó ayer a elecciones generales el 20 de ...

PULSOCUBA

REFRIGERADORES/ El gobierno cubano sustituyó el 95 por ciento de los refrigeradores del sector resid...

CUBAENCUENTRO

Cuba-Chile: Leña al fuego

Un alto costo político le reportará a Michelle Bachelet su visita de febrero próximo a la Isla, a donde lle...

SUN SENTINEL

Chinese President's visit to Cuba underscores closer ties

As government-run television broadcast images Tuesday of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Havana, man...

RUVR

Cuba may get another loan from Russia

Cuba may get another loan from Russia, says the Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin. He was speaking in...

EFE

Medvedev says Raúl Castro will visit next year

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said Cuba is one of Russia's 'key partners' in Latin America, while a...

GRANMA

President Medvedev highlights Russia-Cuba links

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev today highlighted the qualitative increase in relations with Cuba, on rec...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Some Cuban exiles hope Obama can help

Cuban exile Bernardo Benes is plotting to reprise his role as broker of the one humanitarian breakthrough i...

SUN SENTINEL

Cubans regard election's outcome with great interest

Cuba's official midnight television news early Wednesday made brief mention of Sen. Barack Obama's historic...

Why Castro regime fears Obama administration

Since Nov. 4, Cuba has been experiencing a bad case of the Obama Blues. The election of the United States' ...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Courage in journalism in Uganda, Cuba

Plainclothes Ugandan police officers descended yesterday on the newsroom of the weekly newsmagazine the Ind...

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

Open travel, remittances best course for Cuba

On Jan. 1, 2009, the Cuban Revolution marks its 50th anniversary. Three weeks later, Barack Obama will step...

MONTREAL GAZETTE

Castro's curious conversion

The aging former leader of Cuba has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church. It gets worse. As Castro writes, ...

THE WASHINGTON POST

Cuba overture best left to Obama

President Bush has stymied a strong push by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to engage Iran and Cuba mor...

MIAMI HERALD OMBUDSMAN

Facts should be foundation for published opinion

Marián Prío, a reader from Key Biscayne, was upset. She had just read a column in El Nuevo He...

EL NUEVO HERALD

Cuba sin embargo

Es probable que el presidente electo, Barack Obama, considere levantar el embargo contra Cuba. Académicos m...