The embargo, is it about to end?

<p style="text-align: justify;">WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is getting ready to relax travel restrictions to Cuba for some Americans, without lifting the trade embargo and a ban on U.S. tourism to the island, a congressional aide said on Tuesday. Read More

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Judge decries lenient treatment of banks but approves Barclays deal

<p style="text-align: justify;">A federal judge Wednesday denounced the Obama administration's treatment of major global banks accused of violating U.S. laws, saying the government lets them off easy by declining criminal prosecution in exchange for payments of hundreds of millions of dollars. Read More

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US. Considering changing Cuba policy?

The practically non-existent relationship between the Cuba and the United States is the last vestige of the Cold War. Read More

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ECONOMIST: Cuban-American Relations - Baby Steps

<p style="text-align: justify;">IT IS far too early to speak of a new dawn in Cuban-American relations. But since Barack Obama became president, he has revived the Florida Straits strategy of Bill Clinton, his Democratic predecessor, which promoted greater “people-to-people” contact between the two countries Read More

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Cuban Antiterrorist Says He is Confident of His Return to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 18 (acn) Fernando Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States, who is turning 47 today, ratified his confidence in their return to their homeland. Read More

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Dems Meek, Greene split on stimulus, Cuba policy

<p style="text-align: justify;">Billionaire Jeff Greene wants to consider lifting Cuban trade and travel restrictions and said the $787 billion stimulus is a failure, points Rep. Kendrick Meek disagreed with Sunday in the final debate before the Democratic Senate primary. Read More

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Obama plan to ease Cuba travel restrictions could include Tampa

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Obama administration is developing plans to ease travel restrictions to Cuba, and an expansion of the cities that currently offer flights to the island country is on the table. A likely beneficiary: Tampa. Read More

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Barclays agrees to forfeit $298 million to settle sanction violations charges

<p style="text-align: justify;">Monday, August 16, 2010; 10:26 PM. Barclays Bank has agreed to forfeit $298 million to U.S. and New York authorities to settle criminal charges brought Monday by federal prosecutors, who allege that the British bank violated U.S. financial sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma for more than a decade by knowingly aiding banks in those countries with $500 million in transactions with U.S. entities from 1995 to 2006. Read More

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Obama May Ease Cuba Travel Rules; Former Leader in Sector Prepares prnewswire

<p style="text-align: justify;">NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent, widespread reports on the likelihood of an ease on travel restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba have made Cross-Cultural Solutions (CCS), the former leading provider of legal, people-to-people travel to Cuba for Americans, envision the future of their previously halted programs. Read More

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U.S. charges Britain's Barclays Bank with violating sanctions

<p style="text-align: justify;">Some people are under the impression, or giving out the impression, that Washington is ending the half-century-long blockade of Cuba. This doesn't tell us exactly what Barclay's admitted that it did as far as Cuba is concerned. Some of that will probably come out in time. Read More

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