News from Cuba

New farm bill includes Cuba in the Market Access Program and Foreign Market Development program which help US farmers offset the costs of overseas ...

The brotherhood shared by Cuba and Timor Leste is consolidated every day, the country's ambassador here, Maubere Lorosae da Silva Horta, (Loro Horta), ...

Brazil's president gave a big snub to Cuba as the island deals with a grim economic forecast.

Is your concept of Cuba defined by 1950s and 1960s black and white television images of Fidel Castro orating to the masses, the Cuban missile crisis and Bay ...

Cuba's economy will grow next year at about the same sluggish 1 percent pace it did in 2018 and an austerity program begun in 2016 will continue, the country's ...

Gulfstream Air Charter, which planned to fly between Miami and Cuba, did not receive permission from Cuba to land on the island. This weekend alone, 1000 ...

HAVANA TIMES – The return to the town of El Rincon in search of the National Sanctuary dedicated to San Lazaro, makes December 17th a very busy day in the ...

Miguel Díaz-Canel was chosen Thursday as Cuba's new president. The question is whether he will emerge from the shadow of Raúl Castro, who will remain as ...

Miguel Díaz-Canel's presidency in Cuba is not so much a sign that the government recognizes the urgency of citizens' demands for change in government, but ...

Fidel and Raul Castro were scruffy young guerrillas in 1959, when they descended from Cuba's eastern mountains, seized power and never relinquished it.

With revolutionary leader Fidel Castro dead and his brother Raul vowing to step down as president in 15 months, it will soon be the hour of heir apparent Miguel ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Two former senior Cuban government ministers -- Felipe Perez Roque and Carlos Lage -- resigned from their other jobs in the government ...

Some long-time Cuba watchers expressed skepticism Tuesday over a report by a former Mexican foreign minister that Communist leader Raul Castro removed ...

The long-ruling Castro brothers have plucked a bureaucrat from obscurity as their heir-apparent to rule Cuba, and named 2018 as the year of the transition.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, Raúl Castro's apparent successor, has trod a careful path to the top. But without the support of the military and the Communist Party, being ...

When President Barack Obama visits Cuba next month, he will certainly be photographed — many, many times — with Raúl Castro, whose 84-year-old face ...

WITH revolutionary leader Fidel Castro dead and his brother Raul vowing to step down as president in 15 months, it will soon be the hour of heir apparent ...

Other historical leaders of the Cuban revolution could also leave their positions in April, when Raúl Castro is expected to leave the presidency. This political ...

Raul Castro, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura and Ramiro Valdes are some of the main figures in the Cuban establishment as the government prepares to usher ...

Stalwarts and heirs of the Communist revolution will help support — and scrutinize — Cuba's new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

Age and term limits in proposed changes to Cuban Constitution send a clear message to the old guard that their time is up.

Rafael is about to finish his degree at Havana University, but his mind is elsewhere. The finance and economics he is learning are "what they use here in Cuba," ...

As the Castro brothers fade into history, green shoots of civil society are visibly emerging in Cuba. Make no mistake: The Cuban Communist Party retains its ...

Several of those affected believe Ottawa has said little in public because it wants to maintain friendly relations with Cuba. Staff and agencies in Ottawa. Mon 19 ...

MIAMI — A group of doctors and scientists who first evaluated U.S. embassy workers evacuated from Cuba say their symptoms and medical findings "cannot be ...

When the Cuban government gave the word earlier this month to recall the more than 8,000 physicians it deployed in Brazil, the media, physicians and public ...

Cuba's state telephone company will allow mobile phone customers to use the Internet via a new 3G network, starting on Thursday. But as with previous tech ...

Is your concept of Cuba defined by 1950s and 1960s black and white television images of Fidel Castro orating to the masses, the Cuban missile crisis and Bay ...

When it comes to superyacht cruising grounds, sometimes it may be easy to forget that there is a big wide world to discover outside of the hustle a...

Three Cuban artists including Tania Bruguera have gone on hunger strike in protest at a new law that will require all artists and musicians to apply for ...

By Raul Menchaca. HAVANA, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Cuban mechanical engineer Rafael Torres is an expert in Go, or Wei Qi, the ancient Chinese board game ...

It is not unusual for Cuban artists to grumble about excessive state meddling, but it's rare for complaints to be aired publicly and collectively.

The U.S. State Department has added 16 hotels owned by the Cuban military to the Cuba Restricted List, banning U.S. citizens from staying at these properties.

Since Panama began issuing tourism cards to Cubans, Cuban entrepreneurs seeking to supplement Cuba's meager wholesale market have been lining up ...

Protesters gathered in Montreal to support a father who's been stuck in Cuba for over a year and now faces a second trial for his involvement in a fatal boating ...

Santiago de Chile, Dec 12 (Prensa Latina) Until late November, 42,166 Chilean tourists had traveled to Cuba, accounting for an increase of 111 percent ...

Havana, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will close 2018 with the arrival of four million 750 thousand tourists, a figure higher than 2017 but lower than the expected ...

Luxury cruise lines have planned enticing maiden calls to Cuba, Japan, Italy and Greece. See what's on tap for 2019 to 2021 here.

More than 100 people have died after an aging Boeing 737 carrying 104 passengers and six crew crashed into a nearby field shortly after taking off from ...

Two rooms, one that served as a living-dining room and the other a bedroom, plus a tiny bathroom and kitchen, comprised apartment 603 in the building at 164 ...

SEGUNDO FRENTE, Santiago de Cuba.– A marvel worthy of the historic, hard-working, revolutionary municipality, is how Esteban Lazo Hernández, President ...

For the first time in the lives of most Cubans, a man not named Castro will lead the Communist-run island nation.