Factor E: Cuban ventures in a talent show

In November 2024 saw the launching of Factor E, a very innovative yet challenging project: a talent show for Cuban entrepreneurs. In the first 72 hours after its launch, nearly 200 business owners had registered, motivated by the initiative and...

Sarasota Cuban Ballet elevates studio company to permanent addition

In 2022, the Sarasota Cuban Ballet formed a studio company as a pilot program. That company has now evolved into a professional youth company that will develop young professional dancers and provide them with paid performance opportunities. In...

Russia: Deputies Urge US to Talk on Equal Terms with Cuba

Deputies from the Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) demanded this Monday that the United States renounce confrontation and hold talks on equal terms with Cuba. According to the Duma’s draft message to the UN General Assembly....

Trump, Takaichi Seek New Trade, Security Opportunities to Counter China

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. efforts to diversify trade in Asia, Argentina’s surprise midterm election results, and Jamaica bracing for a Category 5 hurricane. A Budding Friendship This week is all about trade policy...

GOP Sen. Rick Scott Claims Actions Against Venezuela Will Cause The End Of The Cuban Regime: 'Will Be The End'

Republican Sen. Rick Scott claimed the Trump administration's pressure campaign against Venezuela will also cause the end of the Cuban regime. "It will be the end of Cuba," Scott said in an interview with CBS News' 60 Minutes, which noted that...

Saudi Arabia, Cuba sign strategic air transport agreement

President of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz Al-Duailej, and Cuba’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Miguel Porto Parga have signed an agreement on air transport services between...

What we’re reading: Hurricane reaches category 5, U.S.–China trade tensions ease and more

Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 The National Hurricane Center stated Hurricane Melissa had intensified into Category 5, according to The Washington Post. Located about 280 miles from Guantánamo, Cuba, flash floods and landslides are expected...

Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 5 storm, barrels toward Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba

Hurricane Melissa intensified to a powerful Category 5 storm early Monday, prompting warnings of intense flooding and devastation across the Caribbean, including Jamaica, Haiti and the southeastern Bahamas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC)...

UN Member States to vote against blockade on Cuba

Havana- On October 29, the Member States of the United Nations (UN) will vote on a resolution demanding the lifting of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba. Carlos Rafael Fernández de Cossío...

The Cuban Embargo Does Not Exist

The Cuban regime has created a narrative of victimhood as a smoke screen for its gross incompetence and corruption. I should know. I once believed it, too. By Carolina Barrero October 2025 For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has anchored...

Sri Lanka: US blockade causes immense suffering to Cuban people

The Lanka Leader newspaper reported that Bandara condemned what he described as illegal pressure from Washington on United Nations member states ahead of the General Assembly vote scheduled for October 28-29 on the Cuban resolution demanding the...

Cuba blockade violates international law — draft State Duma appeal

MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. The United States’ blockade of Cuba is a systematic violation of the norms and principles of international law, says a draft appeal of the State Duma to the UN General Assembly, the parliaments of UN member states and...

‘It’s death by a thousand paper cuts’: Iowa is struggling with Trump’s economic policies

Even the ubiquitous wind turbines that provide income for some Iowa farmers are in the President’s sights. “Right now, we’re fighting different economic wars all at once,” said Summer Ory, 37, the wife of Larry Ory’s grandson, Dan. The couple work...

Mark Cuban Backs TrumpRx Program: Transparency and Savings for Patients

Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban recently expressed his support for the TrumpRx program and the Cost Plus Drugs model, highlighting price transparency and the potential savings for American patients. Cuban described the program...

“Even the Dog Leaves”: Entire Families Are Leaving Cuba

Despite a major effort by animal protectors to take in abandoned dogs and cats there are many more than their capacity. By Amado Viera HAVANA TIMES – Moved by affection for the pets they left behind, thousands of Cuban families embark on that...

Dominican Trade Union calls on government to support ending U.S. blockade of Cuba

Santo Domingo.- The Unión Clasista de Trabajadores (Classist Union of Workers) urged President Luis Abinader to reaffirm the Dominican Republic’s support for ending the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba, in place since...

Lanka Leader Newspaper: extensive coverage on the blockade of Cuba

In several articles, in English and Sinhala, the newspaper recounts the impact of the blockade and its consequences on the Cuban population, and denounces the new attempts by the United States to prevent a favorable vote at the United Nations on...

Friends of Azerbaijan reject US campaigns against Cuba

The document denounces Washington’s intimidating and deceptive pressure on several countries, especially those in Latin America and Europe, to change their position of support for the Cuban resolution, the Caribbean country’s ambassador in Baku,...

Steamboat teacher’s skate ministry inspires documentary on community building in Cuba

When Steamboat Springs Middle School teacher Marco Cuevas first brought two skateboards to a small Cuban town in 2017, he didn’t expect it to grow into a yearslong outreach program — or a full-length documentary. Cuevas heads NVS Ministries, also...

Farmers market to return to Captiva for new season

/News 1 / 2 2 / 2 CAPTIVA ISLAND FARMERS MARKET From left, Local Roots co-owners Betsy Ventura and Jean Baer operate the Captiva Island Farmers Market, which will run from November through April on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Shops at...