Michael Weissenstein

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Jorge Perez, the head of Cuba's top tropical medicine institute, points to a map, showing the location of the field hospital set up to train doctors in the fight against Ebola, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Cuba has sent 165 doctors to Sierra Leone and plans to send 296 more to Liberia and Guinea, the largest commitment of medical personnel so far. Perez says Cuba is ready to send more doctors as long as there is enough funding and infrastructure to support them. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Head of Cuba’s Ebola effort expects more aid soon

Michael Weissenstein · October 18, 2014 1:19 am

Cuba hands Canadian businessman 15-year sentence

Michael Weissenstein · September 27, 2014 10:28 pm

Patrick Hemingway, the grandson of Ernest Hemingway, hugs a child who handed him a Cuban flag, as his brother John, left, looks on in Cojimar, Cuba, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Along with a team of U.S. researchers, the Hemingway brothers are on a five-day mission to leverage their famous name to encourage closer ties between the United States and Cuba and, hopefully, open the way for scientists to gain access to the writer's fishing logs, a long-concealed and potentially valuable source of knowledge about the area's massive predatory game fish. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Hunt for scientific treasure in Hemingway journals

Michael Weissenstein · September 8, 2014 9:59 pm

People put their luggage in a private taxi as they arrive from the U.S. to the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Cubans braced Monday for a clampdown on the flow of car tires, flat-screen televisions, blue jeans and shampoo in the bags of travelers who haul eye-popping amounts of foreign-bought merchandise to an island where consumer goods are frequently shoddy, scarce and expensive. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba cracks down on goods in travelers’ luggage

Michael Weissenstein · September 1, 2014 7:23 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2011, file photo, travelers wait in line with their luggage at Miami International Airport before traveling Cuba in Miami. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans and Cuban-Americans fly in and out of Cuba each year thanks to the liberalization of U.S. and Cuban travel rules over the last five years. On Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, the Cuban government will enact new rules meant to take a big bite of that traffic, sharply limiting the amount of goods people can bring into Cuba in their luggage, and ship by boat from abroad. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Cuba cracks down on goods in flyers’ luggage

Michael Weissenstein · August 31, 2014 9:18 pm

Chef Jeremiah Tower finds third act in Mexico

Michael Weissenstein · June 5, 2014 6:08 pm

Cuban blogger launching independent newspaper

Michael Weissenstein · May 20, 2014 3:43 pm

In this Feb. 5, 2014, photo, Maria Gonzalez, touches a picture of her son Cesar, during an interview with The Associated Press inside her home in Yautepec, Mexico. In 2012. Cesar, a 33-year-old architect and engineer, was kidnapped as he drove through Cuernavaca to visit his family in Yautepec. The family got together $10,000 and left it in packets of $2,000 in a cereal box in Cuernavaca. Five days later he was found dead in the trunk of his car. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico’s kidnapping battle tested in farm town

Michael Weissenstein · February 11, 2014 2:51 pm

Ex-official seized in Mexico corruption case

Michael Weissenstein · June 9, 2013 4:00 am

Venezuela: US officials get access to American

Michael Weissenstein · May 9, 2013 8:51 pm

In this photo taken May 1, 2013, supporters of the ruling party stand around a defaced poster of opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles during a May Day march in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelans have long been obsessed by politics, especially during the Chavez years, as the populist leader denounced his opponents as "the squalid ones" and the opposition tried vainly to oust him through a coup and a referendum. Many, however, say the tensions have reached a pitch not seen here since that 2002 coup, which briefly pushed Chavez from office. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan politics get personal, divide families

Michael Weissenstein, Christopher Toothaker · May 9, 2013 4:00 am

Family: No US access to man held in ‘nightmare’

Michael Weissenstein · May 6, 2013 11:18 pm