Richardson presses Cuba to free American contractor

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wrapped up a week-long trade mission to Cuba Thursday, a trip in which he also pursued another goal -- bringing about the release of a jailed U.S. contractor. Read More

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America Evaluates The Restructuring Of Its Association With Neighboring Leftist Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Washington, August 25, 2010 : Ever since the political ascendancy in Cuba passed into the hands of the leftist Fidel Castro in the late 1950s, America and Cuba have been in a relationship in which each has stared at the other bitterly. Read More

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Cuba travel gets new look, but ban stays

<p style="text-align: justify;">August 25, 2010 7:46 a.m. EDT. (CNN) -- Word that the U.S. government could soon loosen travel restrictions to Cuba may have some American travelers imagining New Year's in Havana or a spring break on the island's famed Varadero Beach. Read More

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Business urges action to lift Cuba travel ban

<p style="text-align: justify;">WASHINGTON | Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:07pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. business group on Tuesday urged the House of Representatives to quickly approve a bill that chips away at the U.S. embargo on Cuba by ending decades of restrictions on travel to the island. Read More

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Cuba Travel Ban: Will the White House Fight to End It?

<p style="text-align: justify;">After it looked a couple of months ago as if a bill lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba had the momentum to pass Congress, it now appears stalled in the House of Representatives. The bill, which would also make food sales to Cuba easier, cleared the House Agriculture Committee but still needs a vote in two other committees - Financial Services and Foreign Affairs - and it may not even come up for a full vote this year. Read More

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MH/Tamayo: New Mexico governor in Cuba, may seek release of U.S. con

<p style="text-align: justify;">Should Gov. Richardson seek the release of Alan Gross while he's on the island,that would not be surprising nor unreasonable for Richardson to do. Read More

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The blockade against Cuba and the banks

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Guardian, Monday 23 August 2010. Cuba is not the object of any "international sanctions" (Barclays faces $298m fine for breaking sanctions, 17 August). It has been the target for 50 long years of a unilateral US government policy of economic, commercial and financial blockade – as your article illustrates – but one that the international community has overwhelmingly condemned for 18 consecutive years at the UN general assembly. Read More

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Loosening U.S. sanctions on Cuba long overdue

<p style="text-align: justify;">San Francisco Chronicle August 23, 2010 04:00 AM.Monday, August 23, 2010. The need to overhaul our draconian and counterproductive Cuba policy is so overdue that it is hard to get too excited over reports that the Obama administration plans to loosen the sanctions ever so slightly. Read More

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Charges of cronyism dog Radio-TV Martí

<p style="text-align: justify;">Charges of nepotism have dogged the two stations since they moved from Washington to Miami in 1996, the article says, highlighting the case of program director Christina Sanson, daughter of a director of the Cuban-American National Foundation. She got her job in the 1990s at the recommendation of Jorge Mas Canosa, the Foundation's powerful chairman. Read More

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Cuban-American politicians against loosening travel, aid rules

<p style="text-align: justify;">Five Cuban-American members of Congress ask Obama to reconsider loosening the embargo. Read More

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