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Where Is Cuba Going? By JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN Published: September 20, 2012 17 Comments On the plane, something odd but also vaguely magical-seeming happened: namely, nobody knew what time it was. Right before we landed, the flight attendant made an announcement, in English and Spanish, that although daylight saving time recently went into effect in [...] Continue reading
POSTED ON Saturday, August 18, 2012 AT 10:48PM Cubans eager to become small-business owners By ADRIANA JANOVICH Yakima Herald-Republic HAVANA, Cuba — Two blocks off the Malecón, the 4-mile esplanade that separates this city from the sea, a small but tidy room is ready and waiting. An air-conditioning unit — its switch in the off [...] Continue reading
Cuba's little capitalists are ready to rumba By Jeff Franks HAVANA | Fri May 4, 2012 6:10am EDT (Reuters) – When Ojacy Curbello and her husband opened a restaurant at their home in Havana in late December, not a single customer showed up. It was a disheartening debut for Bollywood, the first Indian restaurant in [...] Continue reading
Feb. 29, 2012, 12:13 p.m. EST Cubans accept, adapt to their iron-hard livesBy Frank Barnako HAVANA, Cuba — It's as if this city has been preserved in amber. Little appears to have changed in Cuba's capital since Fidel Castro took power in January 1959. The city's gorgeous but decaying Spanish-influenced colonial architecture casts shade on [...] Continue reading
Legal Travel to Cuba is Easier, But It's Not All Mojitos and MontecristosBy Blane BachelorPublished September 03, 2011FoxNews.com After five decades during which most Americans were all but banned from traveling to Cuba, it's finally legal for tour groups to visit the Communist-led nation, thanks to new easing of restrictions passed by the Obama administration. [...] Continue reading
