A Florida congresswoman has joined five former U.S. diplomats in publicly urging President-elect Donald Trump to rescind President Obama’s recent directive that U.S. intelligence agencies share information with Cuba’s government.
Opponents, meantime, are defending the October 2016 directive.
Google’s Lack Of Transparency Harms US-Cuba Commercial Relationship
The refusal by Mountain View, California-based Google (a subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc.; 2015 revenues exceeded US$74 billion) to provide the following information about their transaction with the government of the Republic of Cuba harms the United States-Republic of Cuba commercial relationship- and opportunities for its expansion and support by the soon-to-be Trump Administration.
Cuba paraded troops and hundreds of thousands of citizens through its emblematic Revolution Square on Monday in a traditional show of nationalist fighting spirit in the face of steep economic and diplomatic challenges.
The event marked the 60th anniversary of the landing of the Granma yacht which brought the Castro brothers and their bearded rebels from Mexico to Cuba to start their revolution against a U.S.-backed dictatorship.
Former U.S. ambassadors ask President-Elect Trump to stop U.S. intelligence COOPERATION with Cuban spy agencies
Just a few days before another anniversary of the coming to power of the Castro revolution on January 1st, several former American ambassadors called on President-elect Donald Trump to “withdraw, as soon as possible after being sworn in, President Barack Obama’s order to U.S. intelligence to begin cooperating with Cuban state security.”
The death of Fidel Castro brings a tide of anti-travelogues, memories of a crumbling Havana and a degraded people from holidays that realistically can’t have been that bad, otherwise any reasonable person would have cut them short.
President Obama’s historic move to normalize relations with Cuba hasn’t slowed repression by the Castro regime, and the incoming Trump administration is likely to take a tougher stand on restricting tourism, recovering stolen U.S. assets and demanding human rights reforms by Havana, analysts say.
In the wake of Fidel Castro’s death, Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrote a letter to Cuban President Raúl Castro on Dec. 20, 2016, urging him to “allow a new era of freedom and opportunity for Cuba.”
Silver Airways plans to trim its flight schedule to Cuba starting early next year, becoming the second U.S. airline to reduce the frequency of flights to the island, Travel Weekly reported.
Between January and February, the airline — which flies out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) — plans to reduce the number of flights on six of its nine destinations to the island.
This is one of those rare cases where it's best to begin from the end. These papers are intended to swiftly outline the state of relations between the United States and Cuba since 1959, so as to analyze the new Cuba policy announced by President Barack Obama and Gen. Rauìl Castro in December 2014.
This path leads me to formulate seven warnings. They are neither recommendations nor conclusions. They are observations that emerge naturally from the history I shall relate shortly.
Hours after Fidel Castro's state funeral ended a national mourning in Cuba, a small but intent crowd gathered at the Victims of Communism Memorial in downtown Washington, D.C. Dissidents like Sirley Ávila León and advocates from Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation led mourners on a Sunday evening in remembering the Cuban dictator's actual legacy—when it seemed few others would.
