The Tampa Bay Council of World Affairs & Commerce has scheduled a Sept. 10 debate titled "The U.S. Cuba Embargo: Should It Be Suspended?" ...more

August 7, 2009

The House on Wednesday approved language that would allow Cuban-Americans to visit relatives on the island more frequently and also ease some U.S. restrictions on trade with Cuba. ...more

February 26, 2009

The House on Wednesday approved language that would allow Cuban-Americans to visit their relatives on the island more frequently and also ease some U.S. restrictions on trade with Cuba. ...more

February 25, 2009

Florida Sen. Mel Martinez lashed out at a Senate report Monday that says there is little evidence to suggest a democracy will soon arise in Cuba's post-Castro era unless the United States changes its own policies toward that country. ...more

February 24, 2009

Florida Sen. Mel Martinez lashed out at a Senate report Monday that there is little evidence to suggest a democracy will soon arise in Cuba's post-Castro era unless the United States changes its own policies toward that country. ...more

February 23, 2009

The U.S. policy of shunning communist Cuba by imposing a strict trade embargo has failed to prod the island nation toward democracy and should be re-evaluated, according to the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. ...more

February 22, 2009

Fidel Castro on Thursday threw his first punch at President Barack Obama after several weeks of praise for the new leader, demanding the U.S. return Guantanamo Bay military base to Cuba and criticizing the U.S. defense of Israel. ...more

January 29, 2009

Fifty years ago, a bearded guerrilla marched triumphantly into Havana and declared victory over a departing dictator. Then he became a despot himself. ...more

January 1, 2009

Cuba, hit by three hurricanes this season, is struggling through a new cycle of hard times. Its rich northern neighbor, Florida, is in recession and also could use some economic help. ...more

November 19, 2008

The children of more than a dozen Cuban doctors and medical professionals who defected from the communist island nation are not being allowed to travel to the United States even though they have visas, their parents said Tuesday. ...more

November 19, 2008