Because of years of environmental abuse, a number of species are rare in Cuba, but none more so than a foreign tourist willing to speak up in the face of political...

A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the...

Obama Should Replace Failed Embargo With Effective Multilateral Policy By José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) - Raúl...

Any good will Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba’s new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll, which found more than four out of five of those surveyed in Cuba...

Not too long ago, Ricardo Herrero was one of Miami’s Cuban-American hardliners, an ardent supporter of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba as well as the ban on...

Juanita Castro, the younger sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, worked for the CIA during some crucial years of the Cold War, she says in her new...

US President Barack Obama’s call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba has got quite the chorus line of support from the music world, with...

In the six months after the 9/11 attacks, up to 20 Cubans walked into U.S. embassies around the world and offered information on terrorism threats. Eventually, all were...

Cuba’s workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn’t get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are...

Throughout the Cuban countryside are hand-painted murals featuring the famous faces of the revolution, Che and Fidel, of course, but also René, Antonio, Fernando,...

They say there is no such thing as a free lunch - but for years the majority of Cubans have been given free meals at state-run workplace canteens. But in a bid to...

A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officials told The Associated Press on...

Take a photo tour of gay Havana by clicking here. On sultry Saturday nights in Havana, thousands of young men and women — including hundreds of gay men, a few...

Cuba has accused US President Barack Obama of not doing enough to end the US trade embargo against the island despite his promise to improve ties. Earlier this week,...

The US has formally eased restrictions on Cuban-Americans visiting relatives and sending money to Cuba. As part of changes first announced in April, Washington has...

The United States and Cuba should show some flexibility and take steps to improve relations, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday during a weeklong trade mission...

The United States suspended diplomatic relations with communist Cuba in 1961 and after the Bay of Pigs - a failed C.I.A. effort to overthrow Castro - and the Cuban...

The state-run company that manufactures the island’s supply has warned that the economic crisis and a series of devastating hurricanes has left it unable to...

It’s hard to find a spare tire in Cuba these days, or a cup of yoghurt. Air conditioners are shut off in the dead heat. Factories close at peak hours, and...

Cuba has blended diplomacy and art by inviting two flagship western cultural institutions, Britain’s Royal Ballet and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, to...