Havana, 5 Mar. (AFP) – The European Union and Cuba resumed negotiations Wednesday in a third round of talks aimed at normalizing relations, as Havana and Washington work through their own historic rapprochement. The two-day session, part of a dialogue that began 11 months ago, is aimed at tackling sensitive human rights issues and finalizing […]

Suivez l’odeur du cigare, les chants de Buena Vista Social Club et les traces de JR et José Parla

HAVANA, 4 Mar.(By David LaFevor)  I first met Enrique Hitchman in a bar with no name on Neptuno Street in the neighborhood known as Central Havana. I had been living in Cuba, off and on, for several years to research the histories of race, national identity, and boxing for my dissertation.The bartender, Pedro, was an […]

LA HAVANE, 3 Mar. —French President François Hollande will travel to Cuba in May, the first visit by a French president to the country. Mr. Hollande will be in Cuba on May 11, while he is on a four-day trip to the region, where he will also visit some French overseas territories, his office said. […]

HAVANA, 3 Mar. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he hopes the United States will open an embassy in Cuba by the time of a Western Hemisphere summit in Panama in mid-April. In an interview with Reuters, Obama also cautioned that it will take more time to fully establish normal relations with […]

HAVANA, 3 Mar. As relations between the U.S. and Cuba get cozier, one insurer is eying a lot of opportunity in the travel market. “We are at the beginning of what could be new opportunities as Cuba and the United States explore ways of ending years of travel and trade restrictions,” says Maurice R. Greenberg, […]

HAVANA, 1 Mar. (Reuters) – A Mexican meat processing firm has become the first international company to get approval for an investment project in Cuba’s first special economic development area, Mexico’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. Richmeat de Mexico plans to invest in the processing and packing of meat within the Mariel special development zone […]

LA HAVANE, 28 Feb. Une nouvelle procédure pour la taxe aéroportuaire de 25 CUC va être mise en place pour les voyageurs qui se rendront à Cuba. Désormais cette taxe sera intégrée au billet d’avion, et ne sera plus réglée à l’aéroport de La Havane pour les voyages dès le 1er mai 2015, a informé […]

(2nd L-R) United States Interest Section in Havana Chief of Mission Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South America and Cuba Alex Lee and their team host a delegation from Cuba for the second round of normalization talks at the State Department February 27, 2015 […]

LA HAVANE, 26 Feb. (AFP)  A Cuba, les réparateurs de matelas, parapluies, et appareils électroménagers sont omniprésents. Et prolongent la vie de tous ces ustensiles. Reportage chez ces pionniers du “développement durable”. En proie depuis plus d’un demi-siècle à des carences d’approvisionnement, de nombreux Cubains ont été contraints de se transformer en réparateurs de génie, […]

HAVANA,25 Feb. (Reuters by Daniel Trotta) – Cuba would agree to restore diplomatic relations with the United States in time for the April Summit of the Americas if Washington quickly and convincingly removes the Caribbean country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, a senior Cuban official said on Wednesday. Diplomatic ties were severed […]

HAVANA, 25 Feb. (HAVANA TIMES)  This past February 14th, Cuba’s Danza Contemporanea (DCC) dance company treated the audience to a marvelous Saint Valentine’s gift. On this occasion, they performed two premieres and restaged a popular piece: English choreographer Billy Cowie’s Tangos Cubanos (“Cuban Tangos”), Cuban choreographer and former DCC dancer Alexis Zanetti’s Retorno (“Return”) and […]

LA HAVANE, 24 Feb. (AFP) A l’occasion du cinquantenaire de la mort de l’ancien premier ministre britannique Winston Churchill, sa marque préférée de cigares, “Romeo y Julieta”, sera un grand acteur du Festival du Havane, qui débute lundi à La Havane. Ce festival réunit chaque années des centaines d’amateurs de havanes venus du monde entier […]

HAVANA, 24 Feb  Cuba’s annual cigar festival is getting under way in the capital Havana – with American visitors able to take cigars home legally for the first time in decades. A thaw in US-Cuban relations means American smokers will be able to stock up on products worth up to $100 (£65). Havana cigars have […]

HAVANA, 23 Feb. (Sam Steverlynck) So you walk into El Floridita, one of many Havana bars that prides itself on being a former haunt of barfly Ernest Hemmingway, and there is Guillaume Bijl, the Belgian artist known for absurd installations in which he brings a driving school or travel agency into a museum context. On […]