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Castro retires: Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez “relieved”
Ganma, Cuba's official news site, has just announced that Fidel Castro has given up his presidency of the country. On hearing the news we immediately called our Observer in Havana, blogger Yoani...
View ArticleCuba by billboards
Our Observer in Cuba, blogger Yoani Sanchez, takes us on a tour of the propaganda billboards of Havana. Read more and see the photos. Yoani runs the blog Generacion Y. She was recently voted by Time...
View ArticleTeenage Castro writes to FDR
This letter, held in the American National Archives in Washington, is dated November 6, 1940. It was written by Fidel Castro, a teenager at the time, to the then US president, Franklin D. Roosevelt....
View ArticleBurn your president for New Year’s Eve
Hugo Chavez, Alvaro Uribe, Daniel Ortega, Barack Obama and company, Colombia. Posted by Paula Vélez on Flickr Travel by car in Colombia, Ecuador or Venezuela during the Christmas holidays and you'll...
View ArticleCuba’s 'balseros' risk their lives to set foot on US soil
A recent video of stranded Cuban boat people that were rescued by the crew of a luxury cruise ship is a stark reminder of the risks illegal immigrants are willing to take
View ArticleFive decades on, the embargo continues
Cuba Led by the United States in 1962 the US-Cuba trade embargo has limited virtually all American companies from any trade connections with Cuba. On Tuesday 13th September, President Obama once more...
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