Tag: Cuba

FILE - This April 1, 2014 file photo show the headquarters for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington. The inspector general for the nation's top international-aid agency is probing a once-secret Obama administration program that created a social media network in Cuba, The Associated Press has learned. The review centers on the U.S. Agency for International Development's Twitter-like service in Cuba, which was meant to circumvent Internet restrictions on the island. USAID has been criticized for using the program to conduct overt political messaging and for not fully informing Congress the scope of its work there. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

National Security

Inspector general probing US ‘Cuban Twitter’ plan

JACK GILLUMDESMOND BUTLER · July 17, 2014 7:34 pm

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and Cuba's President Raul Castro embrace at Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, Friday, July 11, 2014. Putin began a six-day Latin American tour aimed at boosting trade and ties in the region with a stop Friday in Cuba, a key Soviet ally during the Cold War that has backed Moscow in its dispute with the West over Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alejandro Ernesto, Pool)

Putin kicks off Latin America tour with Cuba stop

Peter Orsi · July 12, 2014 3:03 am

In this July 7, 2014, photo, a Chinese made vehicle passes in front of a mural of revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Havana, Cuba. A new law took effect in January letting Cubans buy cars from the government freely for the first time in decades. The euphoria that greeted the law turned to anger when the exhorbitant prices were posted. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Paltry car sales seen as sign of Cuba’s priorities

Andrea Rodriguez · July 11, 2014 1:40 pm

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Why pro-democracy broadcasters targeting Cuba feel demoralized

Kelly Cohen · July 10, 2014 10:00 am

This March 27, 2014 file photo shows Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Menendez says his attorney has asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the Cuban government had a role in allegations against him that have prompted a federal probe of the New Jersey Democrat.

Sen. Menendez wants federal probe of Cuba role

Washington Examiner · July 8, 2014 7:36 pm

In this Jan 18, 2014, photo, Villa Clara's pitcher Diosdani Castillo takes a break after a training session at the Latinamerican stadium in Havana, Cuba. Cuban authorities say Castillo, as well as the team's other pitcher Yasmany Hernandez Romero, will no longer play for the local club which won the championship last season, after they allegedly attempted to defect. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Cuba: Team boots 2 pitchers after defection bids

Washington Examiner · July 7, 2014 5:02 pm

Cuba's President Raul Castro delivers his speech during closing of the third regular session of the eighth legislature, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, July 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Cubadebate, Ismael Francisco)

Raul Castro: Economic changes must be gradual

Peter Orsi · July 6, 2014 1:34 am

Democrats’ Florida push calls for US shift on Cuba

Michael Mishak · July 5, 2014 3:38 pm

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Beltway Confidential

A whopping 50 cars sold in Cuba under Castro’s new reforms

Blake Seitz · July 2, 2014 6:02 pm

FILE - This Dec. 19, 2013 file photo shows a detail of a license plate on a Peugeot as it drives by in Havana, Cuba. Cuban authorities reported on Monday, June 30, 2014 that auto dealerships have sold just 50 automobiles and four motorcycles across the country in the nearly six months since a new law took effect letting islanders buy vehicles without a special permit for the first time in decades. Many Cubans were delighted when the new rules were announced in December 2013, and then left aghast by the sticker prices once they took effect. Most Cubans earn about $20 a month. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)

Cuba: Just 50 cars sold in 6 months under new law

Andrea Rodriguez · July 1, 2014 12:29 am

Cuba prosecutors seek 15 years for Canadian man

Peter Orsi · June 30, 2014 2:50 pm

Critical forum may end with Cuban magazine changes

Andrea Rodriguez · June 30, 2014 2:48 pm