On Wednesday, Jose Ramon Cabañas, Havana, Cuba's representative in Washington, recommended that the United States government consider calls for rapprochement with the communist country.
Last week, a new website started by a Cuban dissident blogger began publishing, was hacked, and then banned. But now it's reportedly been unbanned as the Cuban internet, still far from modern or open, continues to make tiny steps toward opening up in terms of Cuban access, censorship and connectivity to the rest of the world.
The United States government's attempt to create a fictitious social media network to undermine the Communist regime in Cuba continues to anger one Central American nation. The government's silence on the issue and further revelations by The Associated Press' investigation has caused tensions between the U.S. and Costa Rica.
After alluding capture by U.S. authorities in December 2012, the Cuban fugitive, Raonel Valdez, went on the run to the Caribbean before eventually getting arrested in Mexico where he awaited justice for allegedly participating in a $2.8 million gold heist.
This week the Associated Press dropped a bombshell report detailing how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) secretly created ZunZuneo, a "Cuban Twitter" network, in what appears to have been an attempt to damage the Cuban government's standing. Now Congress has decided to look into the matter.
The U.S. government reportedly tried to create unrest in Cuba to undermine its communist government by secretly creating a "Cuban Twitter." The project, seemingly a throwback to the U.S.'s Cold War anti-Castro tactics, had ties to the State Department's U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
¡Viva Celia Cruz! The late "Queen of Salsa" continues to reign as she did in life; the iconic singer has been honored with a place on the Walk of Legends at New York's Apollo Theater.
Ernest Hemingway fans who celebrate the iconic author's American classics, will be thrilled to learn that another window to his life has been open, revealing more details about the complex character from what concoction he liked to drink at the bar, or what he like to make in the kitchen.
Bar bills, personal notes, telegrams and even recipes from Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway are available-at least in digital form-for the first time at Boston's John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Cuba is one of the least connected countries in the western hemisphere when it comes to the internet. That's why technology experts and programmers are meeting in South Florida for the first ever "Hackathon for Cuba."
