Cuba

Stay out of Cuba

ThePolitic.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Do not visit Cuba because of the human rights abuses.

Obama engages with Cuba blogger

BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

President Obama replies to a dissident Cuban blogger who asked him about future US-Cuba relations.

National Post editorial board: Don't go to Cuba

Full Comment (Free subscription) | yesterday

As the weather turns against us and holidays approach, many Canadians will eagerly begin to plan their winter escapes to hotter climes. Each year, hundreds of thousands of us travel to the island of Cuba, to enjoy the sun, surf and hospitality for which the island is justly famous. But the island is infamous, too. While tourists rarely bother to venture far beyond their comfortable resorts, if they...

At House hearing, two sides debate U.S. ban on travel to Cuba

Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday

At a tempestuous hearing Thursday, one House member after another criticized a growing campaign to lift the ban on American tourists traveling to Cuba. The move would reward a regime that oppresses its own people, lawmakers declared, pointing to the recent assault on Yoani Sánchez, a Cuban blogge...

Cuba and the United States: Resistant to sticks and carrots

The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

The difficulty of pressing for change in a police state THOSE who hoped that the arrival in power of Barack Obama and Raul Castro would bring a thaw in the continuing 50-year cold war between the United States and Cuba so far have little to cheer. The Obama administration has lifted restrictions imposed by George Bush on visits and remittances to the island by Cuban-Americans, and has resumed discreet...

Impassioned debate on Cuba travel ban - Washington Post

Bed and Breakfast Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

CNN International Impassioned debate on Cuba travel banWashington PostThere was just one problem with making Sánchez the poster child for the travel ban: She opposes it. Halfway through the hearing, the committee's chairman, …Petition for travel to Cuba reaches goal of 100000 signaturesUSA TodayKey US lawmaker calls for lifting of travel ban on CubaCNNCuban blogger urges [...]

Cuba: Raul’s a brutal despot too?! Duh…

THE iPINIONS JOURNAL (Free subscription) | yesterday

This week, international news organizations reported the fact that Raul Castro is continuing the reign of terror his brother Fidel launched almost 50 years ago as if it were every bit as shocking as the fact that President Barack Obama is continuing many of the oppressive war-on-terror tactics his predecessor George W. Bush deployed after [...]

Blogger in Cuba has Washington's ear

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

Cuba's celebrated and increasingly brassy blogger Yoani Sánchez emerged Thursday as a player in U.S.-Cuba relations, scoring a lengthy reply from President Barack Obama to her questions and playing a starring role in a congressional hearing on efforts to let American tourists visit Cuba.

Cuba test Soca Princesses tonight -- ...after St Kitts-Nevis fall 6-0

Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | yesterday

Trinidad and Tobago’s under-20 women’s footballers hold top position on goal-average over Jamaica following a comprehensive 6-0 victory over St Kitts-Nevis in their opening match of the Caribbean Football Union qualifiers for the Germany 2010 FIFA Women’s Under-20 World Cup, at the Marvin Lee Stadium (MLS), Macoya, on Wednesday night.

Cuba's Raúl Castro As Ruthless As Fidel

War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Castro Brothers From Miami Herald: A report by Human Rights Watch paints Raúl Castro's regime in Cuba as little more than a continuation of his brother's `abusive laws and institutions.' Cuba's government remains as repressive under Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel, according to the first in-depth report on the island's human rights since the younger Castro took power....

Blogger in Cuba has D.C.'s ears, not Raúl's

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

Cuba's celebrated and increasingly brassy blogger Yoani Sánchez emerged Thursday as a player in U.S.-Cuba relations, scoring a lengthy reply from President Barack Obama to her questions and playing a starring role in a congressional hearing on efforts to let American tourists visit Cuba.

Obama responds to Prize Winning Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez About US-Cuba Ties

PAXALLES (Free subscription) | yesterday

President Obama replies to Cuba's dissident blogger from BBC News reports that as President Obama opens ties with Cuba, he has also corresponded with a Cuban blogger. It would seem this is an effort to mitigate criticism about the administration...

Cuba blasts report on human rights violations in the country

Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday

Cuba has sharply criticized a recent report on human rights violations in the country prepared by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization.

Florida Sen. George LeMieux Holds Obama’s Nominee For Brazil Ambassador Hostage Over Cuba Policy

Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday

Shortly after Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) agreed to drop his opposition to President Barack Obama’s nominee for Ambassador to Brazil, interim Sen. George LeMieux (R-FL) decided to pick up where DeMint left off. DeMint had been blocking Thomas Shannon’s nomination over the Obama’s policy on the coup in Honduras; LeMieux, on the other hand, is [...]

Ros-Lehtinen enlivens Cuba hearing with a dustup with a retired military general

Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Today's House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing was a highly-charged event -- but sparks flew when Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tussled with retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey. McCaffrey raised the Miami Republican's hackles with his testimony that Cuba represents no risk to national...

WHO confirms flu spreads to Cuba, Finland, Thailand

bsalmons | 13/05/2009

H1N1 flu has now reached Cuba, Finland, and Thailand, with nearly 6,000 people infected in 33 countries, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

Inside the making of Love & Suicide.

tg4m | 22/08/2008

* A critics interview with the making of the history making film Love & Suicide cast and crew, on their accomplishment in filming a feature length film in Havana, Cuba without the expressed consent of either government. LOVE & SUICIDE A Film by Lisa France A Luis Moro Production After their film Anne B. Real, which was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, had been accepted into the Havana International...

• Inside the making of Love & Suicide. - Festival21.com

US government still fighting cold war against Cuba

baslamak | 17/06/2008

TUESDAY, 17 JUNE 2008 The US government is still fighting the cold war against Cuba Below is an article by Duncan Campbell which highlights the cold war the US government is fighting against Cuba; and the lengths the worlds most powerful nation goes to in its attempt bring the Cuban economy to its knees. Perhaps those leftists who criticize Cuba for not being a paradise on earth, should take such