Venezuela will preserve the body of Hugo Chavez in a glass tomb to be kept at a military museum in Caracas. There, the influential leader will remain for public viewing. Chavez died Tuesday, striking the country emotionally, as well as politically. His chosen successor, Vice President Nicolas Maduro, will be sworn in as acting president [...]
Cuba’s Raul Castro Hints at Possible Retirement
February 23, 2013 | Posted by
Cuban President Raul Castro has unexpectedly raised the possibility of leaving his post, saying Friday that he is old and has a right to retire. But he did not say when he might do so or if such a move was imminent. The Cuban leader is scheduled to be named by parliament to a new [...]
Senior Cuban Official: Obama ‘Ill-Informed’ on Cuban Affairs
February 1, 2013 | Posted by
A recent interview with Spanish broadcaster Telemundo have earned President Obama criticism over his views on Cuba. Obama suggested that Cuba’s political ideology is outdated and condemned the country’s imprisonment of public dissenters. Josefina Vidal, Cuba’s top diplomat for North America accused the president of dismissing the country’s efforts to reform its social and economic [...]
Cuba Grants Passport to Dissident Blogger Yoani Sánchez
January 31, 2013 | Posted by
Cuba’s government continues to show signs of complete transition, granting dissident blogger Yoani Sánchez a passport after years of denial under the country’s old emigration laws. The government recently repealed the law requiring exit permits for citizens looking to travel outside the country, a criteria imposed after the communist revolution in 1959. The policy had [...]
Cubans Traveling Abroad Have Many Restrictions Lifted
January 14, 2013 | Posted by
Today is the start of a dramatically new day for Cubans on the island and those living abroad. Cuba has significantly loosened its long-despised travel restrictions, making it much easier for Cubans to leave the island to travel abroad. In essence, starting today, Cuba will be much more like a “normal” country, where people can [...]
Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro to Visit Chavez in Cuba
January 12, 2013 | Posted by
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro was on his way back to Cuba today to visit ailing President Hugo Chavez, a day after Chavez was not present for his inauguration in Caracas because of his slow recovery from a cancer operation. Thousands of Chavez loyalists thronged the streets of Caracas yesterday and acted as red-shirted stand-ins [...]
Cash-strapped Cuba Presses Drive to Strike Black Gold
December 16, 2012 | Posted by
Cuba will allow a Norwegian platform to being offshore drilling off the north-central coast in the coming days, part of an effort to build income from the subsea oil industry. State-run oil company CubaPetroleo announced that the platform Songa Mercur had arrived in the area, and would create the country’s deepest offshore oil well as [...]
Romney Links President Obama To Castro and Chavez in Spanish TV Ad In Florida
November 1, 2012 | Posted by
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in Miami on Wednesday touting the need to unite the country and to stop all the personal attacks that characterized the presidential election. But meanwhile the former Massachusetts governor’s campaign had already begun running a Spanish-language TV ad in the Miami area that ties President Barack Obama to figures [...]
Fidel Castro Says He’s Not Dead and Attacks ‘Stupidities’
October 22, 2012 | Posted by
Fidel Castro wants you to know that he is not dead. Reports were swirling last week that the former Cuban leader was dead or near death, including a story in a Spanish newspaper that he was in a vegetative state after suffering a massive stroke. But Castro wrote an article in the Communist Party newspaper [...]
Rumors Abound that Fidel Castro is Dead
October 11, 2012 | Posted by
Once again, Twitter killed off a major international figure—this time Fidel Castro. The Twitterverse exploded yesterday with news that the famous Cuban leader had passed away, but the news was never confirmed, meaning that it’s just idle rumor and gossip at this point. But with Castro, it transcends Twitter. Long before Twitter was even a [...]
