Havana Dreaming: travel promoters gearing up for special relaxation

<p style="text-align: justify;">The unofficial word in Washington is that the Obama administration plans to relax limits on travel to Cuba for professional, educational and artistic purposes. Some travel promoters are gearing up to handle potentially hundreds of thousands more visits. Read More

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Has the time come for travel to Cuba?

<p style="text-align: justify;">A recent Congressional vote is considered a harbinger of a new era in travel between the United States and its Communist neighbor. In fact, if Washington insiders are correct, Americans may soon be once again flying down to Havana for the night, the way Sky Masterson suggests in Guys and Dolls. Read More

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Open Letter to President Obama regarding Travel to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear Mr. President:<br> <br> We write to you concerning anticipated changes to United States-Cuba policy, and specifically the expansion of travel opportunities from the U.S. to Cuba. While we applaud the Administration’s reinstatement of the general license for family travel and remittances last year, the U.S. has yet to eliminate the irrational and unlawful prohibition against travel to Cuba by non-Cuban Americans. Read More

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National Actions in Favor of Cuban Five Announced in US

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 1 (acn) Actions in solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters jailed in the US will take place in that country this month long to mark the 12 years of their unjust imprisonment. Read More

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Free Cuba Phone Market Urged on Obama by AT&T, Nokia, Verizon

<p style="text-align: justify;">Nokia Oyj, AT&amp;T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are urging the U.S. government to ease rules that keep them from operating in Cuba even after President Barack Obama loosened telecommunications regulations last year. Read More

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Blogger predicts Roig's successor –in code

<p style="text-align: justify;">In a two-sentence entry, blogger Rui Ferreira reveals that "the defenestrated fellow from TV Martí already has a successor. He is a Cuban-American with curly hair." Read More

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Head of Radio and TV Martí resigns

<p style="text-align: justify;">Radio/TV Martí director Pedro Roig resigned Friday after more than seven years at the head of the often controversial U.S. government stations that broadcast to Cuba. Read More

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AP: Cuba's Fidel Castro claims al-Qaida leader Osama bin laden is a a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent

<p style="text-align: justify;">12:27 PM EDT, August 27, 2010. HAVANA (AP) Fidel Castro says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent who always popped up when former President George W. Bush needed to scare the world, arguing that documents recently posted on the Internet prove it. Read More

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DEMOCRACY NOW: In Cuba, Richardson Claims Progress on Jailed US Contractor

<p style="text-align: justify;">Richardson says release of Cuban Five and Gross are not linked...I can easily see that in any official communications neither country would be linking the two cases. Gross was sent to Cuba specifically as part of the program to subvert the revolution. Read More

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Travel Ban on Cuba to Be Lifted, Maybe

<p style="text-align: justify;">Aug 26, 2010. For years the rest of the world has been able to take advantage of the pristine beaches, clear waters, and impressive architecture of Cuba, where there are also countless all-inclusive resorts. But the U.S. is still banning travel to the country. Read More

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