Cuba

  • Apr 1, 2013
  • 6 min read

Improved ties with Russia play in Cuba's favour

In the coming months, Cuba and Russia will settle the details of the repayment of Havana's...

Cuba
  • Mar 13, 2013
  • 6 min read

Cuba's slow-motion internet revolution is under way

Cuba's pioneering blogger, Yoani Sanchez, is expected to arrive in New York tomorrow as part of...

Cuba
  • Feb 28, 2013
  • 6 min read

Diaz-Canel's power in Cuba will depend on Raul

Raul Castro on February 24 tapped 52-year old engineer Miguel Diaz-Canel as the new first...

Cuba
  • Feb 25, 2013
  • 2 min read

Cuba's assembly re-elects Raul, picks 'heir apparent'

The National Assembly yesterday re-elected 81-year-old Raul Castro as president for a...

Cuba
  • Feb 22, 2013
  • 1 min read

Cuba's government eases access to credit

The government yesterday announced a new law that allow Cubans to use personal property as...

Cuba
  • Feb 1, 2013
  • 6 min read

Long-frozen US-Cuba ties may undergo gradual thaw

The appointment on January 28 of President Raul Castro as pro tempore President of the Community...

Cuba
  • Jan 31, 2013
  • 2 min read

Cuban blogger's passport points to stabilising effect

Prominent dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez yesterday said via her Twitter account that...

Cuba
  • Dec 18, 2012
  • 7 min read

Low productivity trap undermines Cuba's GDP growth

Cuba's official unemployment rate at the end of 2012 was 3.8%, up from 3.2% in 2011 and higher...

Cuba