The egalitarian wage system former President Fidel Castro spent decades building in Cuba is no longer viable, plagued by low pay, corruption and waste that can be eased by paying workers more for better work, a top labor official said in an interview published Wednesday. ...more

June 12, 2008

Former President Fidel Castro says Sen. Barack Obama's plan to maintain Washington's trade embargo against Cuba will cause hunger and suffering on the island. ...more

May 27, 2008

Elvis. ...more

May 25, 2008

My recent Venezuela column in The Tampa Tribune prompted a prominent response from a local Venezuelan activist who took exception to some points I made. Fair enough. On this subject, I'm not an expert on anything but my own first-hand impressions based on what I saw -- from health clinics to brazen street crime -- and to whom I spoke -- from Chavez acolytes to scornful opposition. ...more

May 22, 2008

Cuba on Monday accused America's top diplomat in the country of ferrying funds to dissidents on the island from a man it characterizes as a terrorist. ...more

May 20, 2008

President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform" and rejected calls for the easing of U.S. restrictions on the communist island. ...more

May 8, 2008

Cuba announced a major shake-up of its troubled farm sector on May Day, shifting control of the island's farms from officials at the Agriculture Ministry to more than 150 local delegations. ...more

May 2, 2008

Now that Fidel Castro is retiring, it is certainly time to take a second look at the long embargo and antagonism against Cuba. ...more

February 26, 2008

The reactions to the resignation of infirm, 81-year-old Cuban President Fidel Castro have been, for the most part, predictable: whether pragmatically political or purely - and personally - partisan. ...more

February 25, 2008

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. That was pretty much the reaction of the local Cuban-American community after hearing Sunday that Fidel Castro's brother, Raul, would rule the country many once called home. ...more

February 24, 2008