Child of the Revolution : Growing Up in Castro's Cuba

Apologies to those of you popping by every now and then for being so lax in my posting duties recently. In fact, this will be my last post f...

"They are two of the Western agencies closest to the imperialist policy of the United States." Fidel Castro, who seems to be spend...

"If the travel ban is lifted, we might have a stampede of [American] airlines [wanting to fly into Cuba]. After all, there are more tha...

It’s been nearly a week since those lovable Castro brothers stomped all over the once-stellar careers of Carlos Lage and Felipe Perez Roque,...

Back in the good old days, high-profile Soviet officials who fell out of favour with the old men in the Kremlin would be forced to publicly ...

We have blogged previously about Leonardo Padura, a Cuban novelist whose best known work outside the island is a series of police procedural...

"Fidel Castro has a long history of mentoring younger leaders, giving them important portfolios and then basically banishing them once ...

As is usually the case, the official Cuban media have failed to explain (let alone question!) the reasons why Raul Castro unexpectedly sacke...

Have you been wondering what's likely to happen to that awful Felipe Perez Roque now he has been sacked by Raul Castro from his high-fly...

It seems the grand dame of American newspaper publishing, The New York Times , has fallen for that old story about a convalescing Fidel Cast...

Big smile, everyone ... Raul Castro with the two men often spoken of as possible successors, both of whom have been dropped without explanat...

The official Cuban media has just announced a major reshuffle of the Council of State, the body that is supposed to govern the island, altho...

"Per-capita-wise, Cuba qualifies as the world's biggest debtor nation with a foreign debt of close to $50 billion, a credit rating ...