Current Events in Cuba

Cuba-The New York Times
A Cuban blog hosted by the New York Times that gives the latest information on Cuban relations.

Kennedy Library Gets Hemingway Papers From Cuba
October 29, 2009-Cuba's Ministry of Culture is giving copies of 3,000 letters and documents, amassed during Ernest Hemingway's years in cuba from 1939 to 1960, to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.

U.S. Embargo on Cuba Again Finds Scant Support at U.N.
October 28, 2009-Trade between the United States and Cuba remains strict as a result of the American trade embargo against Cuba.

Cuba Magazine Slams "Bad Taste" Castro Sister Book
November 2, 2009-An official Cuban publication is labeled as "a bad taste commercial operation" after revealing that the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s.

Cuba Cuts Back on Rationed Products
November 7, 2009-Cubans are now forced to pay full price for potatoes and peas, two foods that are essential to islanders and were once rationed at only a fraction of the cost; making the decades-old subsidies become nearly eliminated.

New England's 7th Spanish-language Paper Begins Publishing
November 6, 2009-A group of Latino journalists in Massachusettes has launched New England’s seventh Spanish-language weekly newspaper.