Havana, Cuba News

A car drives past a billboard in Havana in 2006 that reads in Spanish "70 percent of Cubans have been born under the embargo." Cuba updates its estimate of how much the embargo has cost it using a complicated - and some say flawed - calculus.

Oxygen Rich Respiratory & Home Health Equipment 880 Kings Way Texarkana, TX 75501 903-831-7424 Read more about this business / View Map Associated Press file photo Cuban security forces arrive with USAID subcontractor Alan Gross, left, March 5, 2011, outside the courthouse in Havana, Cuba, where he is to stand trial.

South Florida Independent Filmmaker Agatino Zurra has started production of his new film Faun Moon, to be filmed in different locations in Miami this February 2012.

A change in U.S. policy is bringing throngs of Americans to the island nation's shores for ''people-to-people'' trips.

When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth.

Among Cubans and Cuban Americans, a number of foreign companies have earned a place in the "hall of infamy" for their outright complicity with the Castro dictatorship.

"I'm on pesquizaje ," my daughter Rebecca told me.A "All of the third, fourth and fifth year medical students at Allende have our classes suspended.A We are going door-to-door looking for symptoms of dengue fever and checking for standing water." [1] As a fourth year medical student at Cuba's ELAM , she is assigned to Salvadore Allende Hospital in ... (more)

Sexy, sweet and laced with a sadness at once specific to its place and time and accessible to anyone with a breakable heart, "Chico & Rita" is an animated valentine to Cuba and its music.

ROME, ITALY, February 8 .- A Cuban priest believes that Pope Benedict's upcoming trip to the country will bring profound change and show that 'love is the only path possible for the present and the future of Cuba.' 'I am convinced in faith that God our Lord will bring great benefit out of the Pope's visit and out of everything that Cuba is ... (more)

Dr. Aldo Chircop is the project director for the Local Integrated Coastal Management Capacity Building in Southeast Cuba.

Order: President John F Kennedy asked an aide to buy him 1,000 Cuban cigars - the day before he authorized the U.S. trade embargo.

The response from Cuban officials did not take anyone by surprise. Prominent Cuban blogger Yoani SA nchez had been, once again, denied permission to leave her country after she was granted a visa by the Brazilian Embassy in January to attend a film festival.

Nearly three dozen Cuban asylum seekers were confined to the Leeward side of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Thursday, no longer able to send packages to family across the minefield in a security crackdown at the U.S. migrant center at the base in southeast Cuba.

Commemorative plaque in Havana for the first telephone conversation in Spanish, which occurred in that city on 31 October 1877.

He will succeed Ken Sternad , who is retiring after a 35-year career with UPS . Martinez, a native of Havana, Cuba, emigrated with his family to the United States in 1960 and joined UPS in 1976 as a package handler in UPS' South Florida operation.

When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth.

I have two brothers, so we are often referred to as the "Three Amigo's" 2. I studied classical piano for 13 years my favorite songs to play are "Fantasy in D Minor", "Moonlight Sonata" and "Clair de lune" 3. I've been golfing since I was a little kid a few years ago, I won the Long Drive contest for our FOX8 golf outing - I beat the guys, lol! 4. I ... (more)

I love the way the book displays the photographs, but as I've been given the honor of being one of the first living American artists to exhibit in Cuba, I felt I had to present something additional as a show of respect and gratitude,' Dweck said.

The ex-Cuban president has just released his 1,000-page memoir. Cuban TV airs the first portion of 6-hour release party.

María Corina Machado has written an open letter to Fidel Castro that has shaken cyberspace.