Fidel Castro’s jungle headquarters are a highlight of a trekking tour in Cuba’s Sierra Maestra mountain range, in the southeastern corner of the island.
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Essay: A dissident blogger recalls the secret Christmas of her youth. The holidays are now acknowledged out in the open, but the other troublesome topic — human rights — is still off limits.
A Spanish university and Catholic clergy in Cuba have joined forces to help train Cuba’s business leaders of the future — even if ‘What Future?’ remains a looming question as regulations still restrict free enterprise from bloo
In the latest sign that the Castro regime is loosening its grip over the open practice of religion, the first nationwide procession since the revolution will be allowed to take take place for the island country’s patron Saint in a celebration to
The Beth Shalom synagogue in Havana has undergone something of a renaissance over the past decade. The same could be said for Cuba’s Jewish community as a whole, which lost roughly 90% of its members after the island’s 1959 revolution.
Efforts by the government to reorganize the island’s economy have sparked renewed opposition demands for serious democratic reforms. Willing for now to overlook their own differences, dissidents have joined forces under a new declaration.
Blogger Yoani Sanchez and dissident Guillermo Fariñas can taste the wave of the Arab uprising from the shores of Cuba. But the Castro regime shows no signs it’s wobbling just yet.