Known in Cuba as el bloqueo, the United States placed an embargo against Cuba on October 19, 1960, nearly two years after the Batista regime was deposed by the Cuban Revolution. Fifty years later, polls indicate that half of Cuban-Americans in Miami would change the United States' standing relations with Cuba.
Company leaders met with Cuban officials and citizens employed in tech. Cuba is the country with the lowest level of Internet access in the Western hemisphere, according to a report from Reuters.
On Friday, Google executives, including executive chairman Eric Schmidt, visited Yoani Sánchez, an award-winning blogger and the creator of 14ymedio, Cuba's first independently owned newspaper in five decades.
With the first round of the 2014 World Cup in progress, Latin Post.com brings soccer fans a list of the best first-round games ever played in knockout round World Cup history.
Guantánamo Bay is looking to hire substitute teachers. Guantánamo Bay is looking to hire substitute teachers. According to the Federal Government Jobs website, the government's Department of Defense is looking to hire a substitute teacher and pay them $50.
According to Florida International University's annual survey on United States relations with Cuba, a small majority of Cuban-Americans residents of Miami-Dade County opposes the embargo of the communist island.
"A mojito is one of Cuba's oldest cocktails — it comes from the African word mojo, which means to place a little spell." — The Havana Journal. As history has shown, a spell has indeed been cast.
Breaking into the Cuban world of percussion was especially difficult for Wendy Garcia of the Obiní Batá orchestra of women percussionists, who plays the drums in Old Havana, Cuba.
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.
Fancy yourself a pitcher? Fancy yourself a pitcher? Why not play a game of baseball? You could round up a few of your buddies and head out to the local field to play ball.
What really happened? Was it indeed a terrorist plot? And against whom? The Cuban government claimed last Wednesday that they captured four terrorists plotting an attack against their country.
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.
Group wants changes to occur quickly. A new advocacy group called #CubaNow is urging President Obama and the United States to change its policy toward Cuba by launching an advertising campaign in Washington, D.
What kind of of social society is Cuba? What or Who is USAID? The U. S. government failed to influence openness in Cuba via a fake Twitter account called "ZunZuneo.
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).
The Communist nation passes law to attract foreign investment. After half a century of being shuttered behind a state-run economy and United States imposed trade embargo, Cuba has begun to open its economy to foreign investment.
