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

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.

Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to find that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on the investigations panel of the House ... (more)

Cuba has been on my bucket list for many years. I can't exactly tell you why but visiting a socialist country sparked my interest.

Regarding the letter from John Daniszewski of the Associated Press about Mary Anastasia O'Grady's "Cuba and the Castro News Filter" : In theory, foreign correspondents accredited in Cuba can travel freely throughout the island and do their work without interference.

Cuban outfielder Yoenis Cespedes toured the Miami Marlins' new downtown ballpark Wednesday, the first leg of what's expected to be his tour of interested clubs.

Cuban bloggers have been making their feelings known about the impending papal visit to Cuba, their main concern being that the Vatican is putting its stamp of approval on the Castro government despite regular reports of human rights violations coming out of the island.

The international community must act against the undemocratic Cuban regime as it increases its repression of dissidents, argues a member of the European Parliament's human rights subcommittee Who is responsible for the death of the Cuban political prisoner Wilman Villar Mendoza on January 19? Why, on February 3, was blogger Yoani Sanchez refused ... (more)

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

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.

The Brisas Sierra Mar and Los Galeones hotels, located in the municipality of Guama received the International Award of 2011 that gives the Canadian website Monarc.ca which assumes more than 80% of travel agencies of the northern country.

The Tigers have some catching up to do if they intend to lure Cuban star Yoenis Cespedes to Detroit.

In this Nov. 7, 2006 file photo, a car drives past a billboard that reads in Spanish; "70 percent of Cubans have been born under the Embargo," in Havana, Cuba.

Yoennis Cespedes has yet to hit U.S. soil, but the Cuban native's agents are still confident he will land in major league camp before the spring.A According to ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine , Cespedes is still awaiting his visa from the Dominican Republic before he'll be able to conduct face-to-face meetings in the United States.A Levine mentions ... (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.

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the world was in its worst situation ever as Cuban television aired on Monday part of a six-hour event last week touting his newest memoir.

Necessity forced Cuban leaders to adopt an environmentally friendly, self-reliant strategy that can aid the Earth's well being and humanity's survival.

The U.S. government has restricted travel to Cuba for a half-century. However, the Obama administration has gone back to a Clinton-era policy that eased some limitations, and some 400,000 Americans visited Cuba last year.

An Italian appeals court has overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nine years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba.

Carmen Pelaez, a playwright and actress who grew up in Miami and made a name for herself nationally with her one-woman show, Rum and Coke, was running around New York, training for a marathon, when she experienced The Moment.