By FRANCES ROBLES | FEB. 16, 2016 MIAMI — The Obama administration’s top transportation officials joined Cuban dignitaries at the Hotel Nacional in Havana on Tuesday to sign an agreement that will restore commercial […]
NYT: Tension Simmers as Cubans Breeze Across U.S. Border
By JULIA PRESTON | FEB. 12, 2016 LAREDO, Tex. — They are crossing the border here by the hundreds each day, approved to enter the United States in a matter of hours. Part of […]
Obama: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is on Cuba
By Art Heitzer and Marjorie Cohn Millions of Americans believe that President Obama has normalized relations with Cuba and ended over 50 years of U.S. efforts to strangle its economy. They might […]
Normalizing Relations With Cuba: Has the U.S. Learned Its Lesson?
By: Nelson Valdes Before 1898 Cuba was a nation without a state. It had a colonial status but also had an evolving national culture and identity, an emerging nationhood and its own history. […]
U.S. – Cuba relations have always been far from ‘normal’
Online Athens – Aug 23 By Louis A. Perez Jr. / Tribune News Service U.S.-Cuba relations are still far from normal — and may never be. Secretary of State John Kerry has […]
Growing Momentum to Repeal Cuban Embargo
NYT August 3, 2015 In 1962, the year Bob Dylan released his first album, Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose and Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, the American government began imposing an economic […]
How Elian Gonzalez Feels Now About His Return to Cuba 15 Years Ago
May 20, 2015 Click here for the full video interview. Elian Gonzalez was just a child when a judge ordered that he be returned to his father in Cuba 15 years ago. […]
Cuban-developed Lung Cancer Vaccine will be Available in the U.S.
June 12, 2015 The vaccine, called CimaVax, has been researched in Cuba for 25 years and became available for free to the Cuban public in 2011. The country’s Center for Molecular Immunology […]
NYT Sunday Editorial: “Lift the Cuba Travel Ban” claims 45 Sponsors of 100 Senators, 6 in GOP but not yet Ron Johnson
Contact Sen. Ron Johnson: Phone: (202) 224-5323 Email Senator Johnson Tweet to @SenRonJohnson June 20, 2015 Granted, Khartoum, Tehran, Damascus and Pyongyang are not terribly popular tourist destinations. But they are places Americans […]
NYT: American Released by Cuba Plays Role as U.S. Relations With Havana Thaw
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD | MAY 2, 2015 MEXICO CITY — For five years, Alan P. Gross, an American aid worker, sat in a Cuba prison growing so despondent that he openly considered suicide. […]
