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Sliding Into Home (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
While recently playing in a tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Cuba's top pitching prospect, Aroldis Chapman defected from the Cuban national team. Apparently, the Yanks are interested. Here's more from SI.com : Aroldis Chapman, whose age was reported to be 21 years old, walked out of his hotel room in Rotterdam and did not return, a spokesman for the Dutch baseball team said Friday. Chapman told...
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R&K Travels Through Life (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
We stayed in the Hotel Inglaterra which is in the centre of Old Havana. There is always plenty of music wherever you go. Vinales Viñales Valley is a karstic depression in Cuba; it is located in the Sierra de los Organos , just north of Viñales in the Pinar del Río Province . Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
HAVANA, Cuba, July 1 (Ana Aguililla / www.cubanet.org) – Police went to the homes of several prominent dissidents and removed anti-government signs.
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Today In the Sky (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Travel between the U.S. and Canada has been banned since 1962, but President Obama repealed the restrictions last spring and flight service between LAX and Havana launches today. Cuba Travel Services of Long Beac, Calif., will operate weekly flights on...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Nuanced but unmistakable stirrings of change in Cuba
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
HAVANA -- Cuba is letting workers hold multiple government jobs for the first time under an overhaul of the island's labor system.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Izet Samá has no regrets about her decision to devote every waking hour to her mission as pastor of the Presbyterian-Reformed Church, guiding a small congregation in the Cuban province of Havana.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. The only Latin American nation mentioned in their conversation? Cuba.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
“Like the seemingly never ending US blockade that attacks Cuba’s economy from without, from the inside a corrosion process is gradually eating away at the relatively young 50-year revolution”: From Havana, Circles Robinson says that “there is a conservative political class of managers at most workplaces and government offices who fear and resist any attempts [...]
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Havana Times reports that U.S. President Barack Obama released a statement in which he said he hoped that all Cuban political prisoners would be released, but Uncommon Sense thinks that Cuban activists deserved better: “A busy schedule or confusion about the dates, is not enough of an excuse for President Barack Obama to not meet [...]
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
El cantante colombiano Juanes se paseó hoy por las calles del centro histórico de La Habana, donde fue reconocido por decenas de cubanos con los que conversó y compartió fotos y autógrafos, durante una visita de horas a la isla.
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Caymanian Compass (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Cayman Airways has added Havana, Cuba to its two-for-one ticket deals.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Washington - The Organization of American States (OAS) has said that it paved the way for Cuba's readmission but was waiting for Havana to make the next step. The lock is off, the door is not open. What the resolution says is how to open the door, ...
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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Caribbean Homes I was born on an island in the Spanish Caribbean, Cuba. Three years later my family went into exile in the United States. However, it wasn’t until I finished graduate school in northwest Ohio in the mid-1980s, that I decided to explore my roots in the region. Returning to Cuba was not an option. We had family members in both Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Unemployment...
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Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Former students of Centro Israelita de Cuba, a Jewish school in Havana that Fidel Castro shut down around 1961, have enjoyed a blast from the past the last few months with class reunions. The festivities started the weekend of April 24-27 when would be sixth-grade graduates of the schools '61 class reunited for a cruise through the Bahamas and continued on June 6 when its 1959 high school graduation...
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