US President Obama announced five months ago that he would allow Cuban-Americans to travel freely to Cuba as well as send more money to family members. It took the US treasury department until today to put the order into effect.
Read MoreThe Cuban Meteorological Institute continues to track what was Tropical Storm Erika as it moves nearer Puerto Rico. As of Thursday evening the storm was downgraded to a tropical depression and the tendency is for further weakening.
Read MoreFrustrated by the continued intransigence of the Honduran regime that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, the U.S. State Department followed through Wednesday on threats to cut off aid to Honduras.
Read MoreFresh off his week long visit to Cuba, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson sees negotiations taking place in 2010 between the United States and Cuba on the lifting of the nearly 50-year economic embargo Washington has maintained against the island.
Read MoreThe president of the United Nations General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto said in Havana on Tuesday that he would bring up the Cuban Five case in his speech this month marking the end of his period in the one year post. D’Escoto will call on US President Obama to rectify the injustice and immediately and make real his campaign promises for change in US-Cuba policy.
Read MoreOn Wednesday morning the Cuban Meteorological Institute reported that Tropical Storm Erika was “very disorganized” and located 160 miles east-southeast of the Leeward Islands. Computer models differ at this point on the path of the storm. Some “show the system taking a northwesterly track toward Florida or the Southeast U.S. coast, but some models show it steering a more westerly course toward Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.”
Read MoreAmnesty International came out Wednesday with a report recommending to US President Barack Obama that he take steps towards dismantling the half-century US economic blockade on Cuba. Amnesty, which has been critical of some aspects of Cuba’s political system, said “This is the perfect opportunity for President Obama to distance himself from the failed policies.
Read MoreCuban weather forecasters began tracking Tropical Storm Erika with their first advisory coming at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The fifth tropical storm of the season in the Atlantic was located by the Cuban Meteorological Institute at 480 kilometers east of the island of Barbuda. Erika’s current estimated path would take it north of the Bahamas and a considerable distance from Cuba.
Read MoreRepresentatives of the Cuban and US governments will meet later this month in the Cuban capital to discuss the resumption of direct mail between the two countries, suspended since 1963. The talks are in addition to the process of bilateral rapprochement begun last May with the resumption of the migration talks.
Read MoreThe Cuban government sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanding that the United States grant a humanitarian visa to Adriana Perez, wife of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five. The Cubans have been imprisoned in the US for nearly 11 years after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and other charges. Perez has been constantly denied the right to visit her husband.
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