On Friday the 88-year-old former communist revolutionary, who had retreated from his position due to illness, appeared in public for the first time in more than a month to meet with cheese masters at the Food Industry Research Institute in the capital city of Havana.
The communist island country, that is currently experiencing a thaw in relations between the U.S. for the first time in over fifty years, has just opened 35 Wi-Fi access points across the nation.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed he will visit Cuba to formally reopen America's embassy in Havana. Some Latino politicians are not thrilled with the policy announcement.
According to the The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and Reconciliation, there are currently 60 political prisoners jailed in the communist country and 11 people under some form of parole
Next month, President Barack Obama is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba that will allow each country to reopen embassies in the other's capital.
Republican Sen. Jerry Moran is continuing the push Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar started to end the Cuban embargo. On Thursday, Sen. Moran, with Sen. Angus King, introduced the Cuba Trade Act, a new bipartisan attempt to allow American trade with Cuba that will be more palatable to the Republican majority in Congress.
Opponents of Obama's otherwise lauded plan to reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba are trying to use must-pass funding bills to limit Obama's ability to expand trade and travel with the communist island.
A group of senators have introduced a bill to slow down the reopening of Cuba as the federal government inches closer to reestablishing ties. The senators, among them two presidential hopefuls, aim to restrict the flow of U.S. money into Cuba as restrictions become more lax.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., still has concerns about the Obama administration normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba, and wrote a letter to the U.S. State Department on prioritizing specific topics when having talks with the island.
The Obama administration has taken another huge step in its effort to normalize relations with Cuba by removing the nation from the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list.
As relations between the U.S. and Cuba continue to improve and normalize, the two countries are preparing to reopen their embassies after decades. The two nations plan to announce the reopening of embassies next week, following a series of talks in the last couple of months.
In addition to taking historic steps to normalize U.S. and Cuban relations, President Barack Obama may become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Havana in decades.
U.S. and Cuban government officials confirmed diplomatic talks regarding respective embassies have stalled following the fourth round of discussions between both countries.
As everything seems to be cooling down between the U.S. and Cuba, inhabitants of the communist island appear to be showing their support for the easing of tension between the two nations by wearing a lot of American Flag inspired clothing
U.S. and Cuban government officials will host another round of diplomatic talks from Washington, D.C. on Thursday. As the U.S. State Department recognized, the latest talks will be the fourth round of discussions to reestablish diplomatic relations.
As relations between the U.S. and Cuba seem to be cooling down, Elian has expressed his desire to come back to the country that didn’t want to let him go.
Unable to re-enter the country they were trying to escape, 38 Cuban migrants who had intended to sail to the U.S. remain aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel where they wait to see if and when they will be allowed back on Cuban soil.
Since Obama’s decision to reopen ties with Cuba, Airbnb Inc -- a website designed to help travelers share their rooms -- has become the communist country’s fastest-growing market.
