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Those Who Profit from Cuba Travel Must Act to Save It 23 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
Our friend and colleague Tony Martinez has written compellingly in the invaluable Progresso Weekly blog of the danger to travel to Cuba emerging from the House Appropriations Committee. (Text o...
Mandela, Miami and Cuba: The Real Story. 24 Jul 2013 | 02:18 am
Ethics has never been a forte of the pro-embargo Cuban-American lobby. But the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC has reached a new low. Capitalizing on South African president Nelson Mandela's health problems, ...
North Korean Freighter Seized With Cuban Weapon Systems on Board 17 Jul 2013 | 08:30 am
The news that a North Korean freighter allegedly stuffed with “sophisticated missile equipment” has been intercepted crossing the Panama Canal from Cuba must have many people talking, scratching their...
Are We Verging on the Verge? Will Snowden Undo It? 9 Jul 2013 | 05:28 am
Seniors from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY, meet students from the club at the Lenin School in Havana who are responsible for the science museum My initial enthusiasm for candidate Barack ...
Why Edward Snowden Didn't Go To Havana, Cuba 24 Jun 2013 | 06:13 pm
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor on the run who leaked information about top secret surveillance activities at the NSA, didn't board the Aeroflot plane headed for Havana this morning as expec...
U.S. Restarts Migration, Mail Talks with Cuba 20 Jun 2013 | 12:07 am
Shortly after the birth of my daughter earlier this spring, a dear friend came from far away to visit. Naturally, she wanted to know, how are things with Cuba? Surely Obama is changing things, right,...
In the Middle of Things 6 May 2013 | 10:47 pm
Niall O'Leary from New York teaches Irish dancing to the company of Danzas Retazos, an FfRD people to people program I have been away from thehavananote for too long. It was great when OFAC finally ...
Beyond Beyonce, Jay-Z and Yoani: The Overshadowed Story of Law Enforcement Cooperation 10 Apr 2013 | 08:13 am
Two news stories have dominated the U.S.-Cuba policy debate in the last couple of weeks, the whirlwind U.S. tour of Cuban critic and blogging sensation Yoani Sanchez, and the surprise trip to the isla...
Cuba and the Beyonce Effect 8 Apr 2013 | 10:25 am
Every once in a while something happens to remind us just how far U.S.-Cuba relations have deviated from what they should be. Last week, superstars Beyonce Knowles-Carter and Jay-Z strolled through Ha...
Zoo, Schmoo. Our Headline? "Rubio Hopes to Revive Flagging Pro-Embargo Donations" 15 Mar 2013 | 08:00 pm
Could someone please explain to me why multiple outlets (The Hill, The Washington Times, Politico) consider criticism from Cuban American Senator Marco Rubio - at a recent pro-embargo fundraiser, no l...
