Tag: Cuba

Beltway Confidential

Marco Rubio gets a hero’s welcome at CPAC

Joel Gehrke · March 6, 2014 12:00 am

A participant in the competition for the longest ash is dizzied by the smoke of his cigar during the XVI Cuba Cigar festival, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Cigar enthusiasts from around the world come to Cuba during the annual Cigar Festival to visit tobacco farms and factories and savor new cigar brands. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Up in smoke: Long-ash contest at Cuba cigar fest

Andrea Rodriguez · February 28, 2014 5:09 am

Marco Rubio on Senate Floor: Venezuela Is the New Cuba

Michael Warren · February 25, 2014 6:17 pm

In this Feb. 19, 2014 photo, Yanitse Garcia and her daughter Olivia pose for a photo backdropped by a mural of a Cuban flag in Havana, Cuba. Garcia has spent three decades correcting people on the pronunciation and spelling of her first name. So when her firstborn came into the world three years ago, Garcia decided to save her daughter a lifetime of grief by choosing a simple name that everyone knows and which flows off the tongue: Olivia. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

In Cuba, trend seen away from eccentric names

Andrea Rodriguez · February 25, 2014 4:56 pm

Beltway Confidential

Dear President Obama: This is what a passionate defense of U.S. values looks like

Charles Hoskinson · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

Cuba: Rene Gonzalez eyes fellow agent’s US release

Andrea Rodriguez · February 20, 2014 5:04 am

The hotel Capri is illuminated at dawn in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. Havana's hedonistic mob-and-movie-star days came to an end with Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, and the hotel drifted into a long, slow decline. But now the Capri is back in business after being closed more than a decade ago. Its rebirth is part of Cuba's latest bid to trade on its colorful pre-Communist past and attract tourist dollars to fund its socialist present. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Havana mob hotel Capri reopens after renovation

Peter Orsi · February 15, 2014 5:02 am

In this Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Divaldo Aguiar, who plays the part of Pachencho, lies inside a mock coffin during Burial of Pachencho celebration at a cemetery in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba. Cuban villagers stage a mock funeral and burial of Pachencho, with a living man playing the part of Pachencho, in a boozy festival that has become an annual tradition in this small town near Havana, held each Feb. 5 for the last 30 years. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

AP PHOTOS: Cubans ‘bury’ man alive in mock funeral

AnneMarie Garcia · February 7, 2014 12:46 pm

Cuba pitcher Vicyhandri Odelin throws a ball in the first inning of a Caribbean Series baseball game against Puerto Rico in Porlamar, Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Cuban soul-searching after baseball humiliation

AnneMarie Garcia · February 6, 2014 10:20 pm

In this Jan. 23, 2014 photo, tourists traveling with the "people-to-people" program make a purchase in a Cuban agricultural market in Havana, Cuba. Tour operators insist they're supporting local organic farmers, performers, artists, musicians and entrepreneurs who run private restaurants, adding that the Cuban government's involvement in scheduling is minimal and agendas carefully comply with U.S. rules barring sun-and-sand tourism. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Tours changing American views of Cuba, US policy

Peter Orsi · February 3, 2014 1:30 pm

Cuba's President Raul Castro speaks to his Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez during a session of the CELAC Summit in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean are in Cuba to talk about poverty, inequality and hunger at the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC. (AP Photo/Cubadebate, Ismael Francisco)

Cuba’s Castro calls for integration free of US

Peter Orsi · January 29, 2014 2:07 am

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, gets a haircut in a barbershop in Old Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Ban Ki-moon as well as leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean are arriving in Havana this weekend to participate in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC summit. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

LatAm foreign ministers kick off Cuba summit

ANDREA RODRIGUEZPETER ORSI · January 27, 2014 8:11 pm