Reforms from President Raúl Castro have encouraged small businesses and eroded traditional structures and attitudes in unanticipated ways

Prospect of significant oil discoveries could alter Havana’s economic future and its relations with Washington

The family of the last Briton held in Guantanamo Bay, the extra-judicial US interrogation centre on Cuba, have spoken this weekend of their decade of torment as President Barack Obama appears set to perform "the biggest U-turn of his presidency" by keeping the prison open and signing indefinite detention without trial into law.

SEC clamps down on activity in Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba as part of ongoing reviews of companies’ investment risks to security holders

Nearly 200 TUC delegates attended a lively Latin America solidarity meeting on Monday to hear from speakers on Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and Nicaragua and mark the 13th anniversary of the arrest of the Miami Five. Chairing the meeting, NUT General Secretary Christine Blower declared it was “probably the best supported fringe at conference”. Len McCluskey, Unite

General Julio Casas Regueiro, an accountant who fought in Cuba's revolution, then used his training to run the military's lucrative economic enterprises for two decades before becoming defense minister, died in Havana aged 75.  Casas was the most important figure from the revolution to die since Juan Almeida Bosque in 2009, and his death on Saturday of heart failure was sure to focu...

The blockade also restricts access to long-term credit which means Cuba is often limited to dealing in cash transactions or expensive short-term credit. This makes bilateral trade more costly for the island and significantly stifles their economic freedom. Not quite as much as the Cuban Government’s denial to its citizens of any form of economic,

I just realised that plenty of mainstream US Democrats, having spent the last however long castigating people to the left of them for perceiving some progressive tendencies in the government of Fidel Castro, are now reduced to supporting the re-election of a President who imprisons people without human rights in Cuba, but who has made

When travel writers start going on about how "vulgar" and "overdeveloped" Cuba is becoming, I'll book my flights. So long as it is the favoured destination for the sort of people who wear silly T-shirts with pictures of mass murderers on them, I'll be off to somewhere else instead. - Johnathan Pearce...

My wife and I are off to Cuba next week for a fortnight. We have to be quick if we're to catch a glimpse of the place before it changes irreversibly. Every piece of news seems to be in the right direction for Cubans, the wrong direction for tourists seeking picturesqueness. President Raul Castro has pledged to legalize the purchase and sale of homes by the end of the year, bringing this infor...