After Fidel: Raul Castro And The Future Of Cuba's Revolution: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Today, that Southern Florida newspaper which I maliciously call El Gusano Herald published an article by Marifeli Perez-Stable. In it she recalls that "the Obama administration may be going down a dead end. In an Oct. 13 meeting with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Obama said: "Tell Raúl that if he doesn't take steps, I won't be able to go further."...
Council on Foreign Relations (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Marifeli Perez-Stable discusses the leakage by El País of Obama's message to Raul Castro, warning that if the administration doesn't "break the tired two-step" of Cuban-American relations soon, it may be too late.
France24 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The European Union does not seek a regime change in communist Cuba, but expects progress on human rights, a visiting EU official said after meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro. "The EU's goal, its policy, is not to instigate a regime change in Cuba," European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Karel De Gucht told reporters at the close of his four-day visit here. He said...
Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The funeral for Carmen Nordelo, the mother of Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo (Cuban Five), was held on Tuesday at Colon Cemetery in Havana with President Raul Castro in attendance.
Miami New Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Forget everything you've heard about Raúl Castro liberalizing Cuba. Fidel is still alive and kicking — reporters. How do we know? Well, for the first time in its 15-year history, the Miami-based National Circle of Journalists from Cuba did not give out an award on Cuban Journ...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Castro’s Utopia is dying. The Cuban state is almost bankrupt, so much so that free canteens, one of the ‘benefits’ of socialism, have closed down in several ministries. Instead workers are to be given a daily pay rise of 15 pesos-about $0.60-in compensation, which raises their meagre salaries by more than half. The insufferably dull Granma , the national newspaper, has welcomed the...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
HAVANA (Reuters) - An official Cuban publication on Monday dismissed as "a bad taste commercial operation" a memoir by the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro that revealed she worked for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s.
Ask Nicola (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Newsmakers: The People Behind Today's Headlines , is just published by Gale . "Newsmakers – published quarterly in softcover – provides timely and informative profiles of the world's most interesting people . A hardbound annual cumulation makes Newsmakers a permanent reference source on 200 newsmakers of the year. Four indexes help readers locate entries by name, nationality, occupation...
Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
The European Union (EU) commissioner for cooperation, Karel De Gucht, begins a visit to Cuba on Saturday during which he will evaluate the collaboration program with the island. He also expects to meet with President Raúl Castro
Mambi Watch (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I n this photo (courtesy of Libre magazine) Salvador Lew holds up a picture of a young Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro. I'm sure you've heard the news by now: two years after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Juanita Castro worked with the CIA helping opponents of the Revolution. Juanita herself soon went into exile in 1964 after her brother Raul revealed that the Cuban government...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Cuban farmers must sell most of what they produce at state mandated prices. But after they meet their quotas (typically about 70 percent of their output) they are free to sell the rest at farmer's markets, or agros . At the markets, prices are higher, but there are plenty of choices and the stalls feel abundant compared to the often-empty shelves of the state groceries: At one such market this week,...
Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
“Central America and the Caribbean, historical sugar-producing economies where the sugar-ethanol infrastructure already has a foundation, labor costs are low, and the political conditions are more or less stable– offers the best near-term potential for large-scale sugarcane ethanol production. This is a market opportunity which Cuba, with the longest experience of sugar–ethanol and...
Fausta's blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Not that I’m fond of class struggle, but isn’t it ironic that Hollywood millionaire Sean Penn is visiting Caracas with Hugo Chavez, and Michael Douglas is touring Old Havana after visiting with Raul Castro. Sean was in Cuba at the expense of Vanity Fair and the Huffington Post, who apparently had him interview Fidel Castro. Liberals must [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The actor has been dispatched to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro Age: 49. Appearance: Unholy progeny of Robert de Niro and Sylvester Stallone. Profession: Actor/director/journalist. Journalist? Penn has written for Rolling Stone, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Nation and the Huffington Post, among others. Any big assignments lately? Vanity Fair has sent him to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro What...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
General assembly expected to push Obama to build on recent thaw in US-Cuba relations The UN general assembly is expected to overwhelmingly condemn the US economic embargo against Cuba today, adding pressure on the Obama administration to abandon its 47-year-old policy. The majority of the assembly is due to approve a resolution demanding an end to the embargo. The annual diplomatic ritual has extra...
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