HAVANA, Aug. 19th In the cafeteria of the luxurious Grand Aston hotel in Havana –which opened in March–

HAVANA, Aug. 19th Romantic yet cynical, simultaneously gritty and glamorous, Jurassic but oddly zeitgeist, Havana constantly delivers contradictions and curveballs in a layered identity that endlessly fascinates travelers.

HAVANA, Aug. 17th The Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), created in 2013, was the first and only one of its kind in the country.

HAVANA, Aug 17 (Reuters) -Cuba plans to allow some foreign investment in local wholesale and retail trade for the first time since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution,

HAVANA, Aug. 15th Recently published in the Official Gazette, this Monday the resolutions that make non-commercial imports

HAVANA, Aug. 13th U.S. relations with its bordering countries have historically responded to a geopolitical logic. Caught in that logic, for better and for worse, is the question of the environment.

HAVANA, Aug. 13th The economic horizon is darkened by a cloud – literally. Rolling blackouts are already the norm throughout the island, as Cuba’s Soviet-era thermoelectric power plants are crumbling.

HAVANA, Aug. 12th   Cuba’s hard-currency stores are well-stocked with imported goods, as much as they can get, something obvious to any regular reader of the official press. In an article entitled “Broken Links in the Chain,” the state-run newspaper Granma asks why Cuban farm products are not being sold in these establishments. It is […]

HAVANA, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Cubans have been left to endure six- to 18-hour blackouts, and search for ever-scarcer gasoline in the wake of a spectacular blaze that destroyed 40% of Cuba’s main fuel depot and shuttered its only supertanker port. The fire began on Friday when lightning struck a storage tank, spreading to three […]

HAVANA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — Cuban scientists and experts are studying the environmental impact of the fire at a fuel storage facility in Matanzas Province, according to the country’s scientific authority.

HAVANA, Aug. 8th This Monday a new explosion was recorded in the fuel depots of the city of Matanzas.

HAVANA, Aug. 6th  A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled Saturday in the city of Matanzas,

HAVANA, Aug. 5th ‘127 Hours’ star James Franco is set to take his fans back in time as he has been signed to play the role of Cuban revolutionary turned politician Fidel Castro in Miguel Bardem’s ‘Alina of Cuba’.

HAVANA, Aug 4 (Reuters) Cuba announced it will begin purchasing Thursday dollars and other convertible currencies at nearly five times the

HAVANA, Aug. 3rd Abortion in Cuba is not “as easy as pulling teeth”, as journalist Camila Acosta claimed in an article published in ABC.es in July.