Cuba has begun its own online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia, with the goal of presenting its version of the world and history. It describes its longtime ideological enemy, the United States, as ...

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The son of Cuban immigrants, the U.S. Secretary of State confronts the island’s energy crisis with a policy that blends ...

David Hoffman's "Give Me Liberty" examines Oswaldo Payá's odyssey from a defiant young Catholic to the dogged dissident who rattled Cuba's communist state. It’s been a decade since Cuba’s most ...

What began as a handwritten, 13-page document in all caps telling the story of a Cuban immigrant fleeing the country with his little brother, landing in a Nebraska orphanage, then working to bring his ...

Tom Gjelten's new book, Bacardi and the Long Fight For Cuba, threads the history of the family-owned Bacardi Rum Co. together with that of the... Bacardi Biography Details The 'Fight For Cuba' Bacardi ...

Pepin Bosch directed the reorganization of Bacardi operations outside Cuba after Castro exiled the family and confiscated the company's facilities in the 1960s. Tom Gjelten's new book, Bacardi and the ...