2/26/01	U.S. Bars Cuban Envoy From University Lecture -- The United States has barred a senior Cuban U.N. envoy from delivering a lecture on "Cuba after Castro" at a Pennsylvania university, saying the speech was unrelated to his diplomatic duties.
2/14/01	Sugar's First Family -- With 600,000 acres of sugar cane fields and sugar mills producing 1.8 million tons of raw sugar every year, the state of Florida provides a quarter of the sugar produced in the United States. Louisiana, Hawaii, and Texas are also sugar cane states, but none of them surpasses Florida.
2/9/01	Let Yankee Tourists Shower Dollars On Cuba's Poor -- In her final press conference as Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright's message to the Cuban people was succinct. In reference to the aging Fidel Castro she said, "I wish them the actuarial tables." It was an odd statement on behalf of a superpower that could have used the previous eight years to exercise considerable influence on its small island neighbor.
2/8/01	Frontline: Interview with Francisco Aruca -- Now considered a moderate Cuban-American, Aruca conspired against the revolutionary government in Cuba in the late 1950s, and was sentenced to jail. After escaping, he came to the U.S. In 1979, Aruca founded Marazul Tours, a travel agency that provides service to Cuba. He also is a radio commentator on Miami's Radio Progreso.
2/6/01	Freedom House Welcomes Release of Czechs from Cuban Jail -- Freedom House today welcomed the release of prominent Czech citizens Ivan Pilip and Jan Bubenik from illegal detention in a Havana jail, where they had been held for more than three weeks on charges of meeting with dissidents to "foment rebellion" and "encourage uprising."
2/5/01	Freed Czechs Fly Home From Cuba After Confession -- Two prominent Czechs, jailed in Cuba after seeing anti-Castro dissidents, were on their way home Monday night after a public confession earned their release in a case further souring ties between the one-time Socialist allies.
2/2/01	Ros-Lehtinen to Chair House Council -- For the first time, a Cuban-born member of Congress will head the House subcommittee responsible for international operations and human rights, a position that could give Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen increased influence in issues pertaining to Cuba.
1/30/01	Don't Let Politics Cloud Cuba Offer -- In the two years since opening its Latin American School of Medical Sciences, Cuba has filled its classrooms with more than 3,400 students from 23 countries. Most of them come from Central and South America. A few of the students are from nations in sub-Saharan Africa.
12/19/00	To the Editor -- I am mildly amused by the assertion that Cuba's use of the death penalty is the over-riding reason for Panama's refusal to extradite Cuban exiles accused of conspiring to assassinate Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz in Panama last week.
12/10/00	Ending the Cuban Embargo: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- This fall President Clinton signed a $78 billion agriculture spending bill containing an amendment that lifts the US's unilateral sanctions against the sale of food and medicine to Cuba. The media heralded the move as the first major opening in US-Cuba relations in decades. But this "first opening" in the Cuban embargo goes just as far in renewing normal relations with the island as other diplomatic posturing during the past 38 years has gone: nowhere.
11/7/00	Threats Cancel Cuba Cruises Planned for Americans -- A Canadian company that planned to operate cruises from the Bahamas to Cuba, allowing U.S. citizens to visit the communist island without violating U.S. travel restrictions, cancelled the trips on Tuesday because of reported security threats.
11/6/00	Diaz-Balart's Audit Woes -- Thousands of dollars in excessive and prohibited campaign contributions, and about $114,000 in missing cash are among the findings of Federal Election Commission auditors who recently examined the finances of the re-election committee of U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Miami.
10/30	Diaz-Balart Campaign Runs Afoul of Finance Rules, Again -- In the last four years records show that U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart's campaign committee has been slapped nine times by the Federal Election Commission for failing to file required contribution disclosure forms.
10/30/00	Cuba, Venezuela Sign Oil Deal -- Fidel Castro capped a five-day tour of Venezuela-- a virtual love fest with his host, President Hugo Chavez--by signing a controversial oil assistance pact Monday that opponents say Venezuela can ill afford.
10/27/00	Policies Toward N. Korea, Cuba Don't Match -- The Clinton administration's reaching out to Pyongyang while shunning all but the most circumscribed relations with Cuba is a contradiction that has not gone unnoticed in Havana.
10/12/00	Bill Passes to Make Terrorists' Backers Pay: Exiled Pilots' Kin Praise Measure -- Marking a "bittersweet day" that ended years of frustration, relatives of the victims of terrorism and former hostages expressed satisfaction Wednesday as the Senate cleared the way to provide partial compensation from the frozen assets of Cuba and Iran for terrorist acts.
10/11/00	Embargo Seen as Aid to Castro; Canada, Too -- The long-running United States economic embargo of Cuba has played neatly into the hands of both the Havana government and Canada, which has become the largest foreign investor in Cuba, Canada's foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy, said in an interview here today.
10/6/00	Cuba Policy Moves One Step Closer for Business and Two Steps Back for Travelers -- The congressional vote today on Cuban foreign policy shows that Congress is running in place when it comes to the embargo against the island.
10/5/00	Disagreement Dogs U.S. Bill To Ease Cuba Embargo -- A congressional proposal to ease the longstanding U.S. embargo on Cuba to allow food and medicine sales was snarled by a dispute over travel rules on Thursday and criticized by Havana as a sham.
10/5/00	Cuba Hitch In Farm Spending Bill Resolved, Lott Says -- House and Senate negotiators plan to resume talks today on a $75 billion agricultural spending bill that would permit food and medicine sales to Cuba.
10/4/00	Old Foes United In Their Grief: Presidents Carter And Castro Both Felt Close -- Most Americans would favour lifting their country's embargo against the Communist Cuban regime of Fidel Castro, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said yesterday.
10/4/00	Letter to the Editor: Cuban Survivors Escaped Poverty -- Since the nine Cubans who stole a plane and crashed near the Florida Keys were admitted into the United States after proclaiming themselves anti-communists I am wondering: Since when is stealing a plane not a crime in the United States?
9/28/00	Cuban Mom Losing Hope for Funeral -- Aleida Martinez Paredes said Thursday that it was painful enough to lose her eldest son, killed last week when a stolen crop-duster full of Cubans crashed in the ocean as they fled the island. The U.S. government this week refused to grant the divorced, unemployed woman a visa to visit Miami for the funeral of her 23-year-old son, because officials feared she would not want to return home.
8/8/00	An excerpt from Terrence Cannon's book: Revolutionary Cuba -- Racism and racial discrimination were never as deep or widespread in Cuba as they were in the United States. For centuries, black Cubans had played a recognized role in the struggle for independence.
8/2/00	Cuban Migrant Smuggling Ring Dismantled In Miami -- Nine alleged members of a Cuban migrant smuggling ring have been arrested in Florida following a year-long investigation, federal authorities confirmed Wednesday.
8/1/00	Cuba Embargo Sows Division in Republican Ranks -- Deep divisions over whether to maintain a four-decade-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba surfaced this week among Republicans at their national convention to nominate Texas Gov. George W. Bush for the White House.
7/24/00	Cuba Climbs Economic Ladder -- The Havana Palace, a 73-unit condominium building with pool and garage, is nearing completion in the upscale Miramar section of the Cuban capital. Designed to be sold to foreigners with business interests in Cuba, or those merely looking for a Caribbean pied-a-terre, it is one of 17 projects being built under a joint venture construction program authorized by the Cuban government in 1997.
7/5/00	President Kennedy's Plan for Peace with Cuba -- The Cuban people have endured hardships and deprivation for decades. It is time to welcome them back into the American community, not grudgingly, but with the generosity of spirit that we like to think characterizes our nation.
6/1/00	What's Good for China Is Good for Cuba -- Now that the House has approved legislation extending permanent normal trading privileges to China, it must decide whether it has the courage of its convictions on another issue: lifting sanctions on Cuba.
5/30/00	Faget convicted in spying case -- U.S. immigration official Mariano Faget, accused of revealing secrets to a friend with ties to Cuba, was found guilty on espionage charges by a federal jury this afternoon.
5/26/00	California grandparents back Elian's grandmothers and grandfathers -- A group of California grandparents met Thursday with the grandparents of Elian Gonzalez to express support for the fight to bring the 6-year-old back to his communist homeland.
2/1/00	Hidden support for a father -- No, the biggest room in Miami is not the new basketball arena. It's the political closet.Over the last few weeks, as the saga of Elian Gonzalez segued from tragedy to travesty, that cavernous space seems only to expand as its occupants have moved deeper into the darkness of fear.
1/31/00	Elian's father claims Miami relatives offered bribe to come to U.S. -- Relatives of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez offered his father $2 million, a house and a car to drop his fight for the boy's return to Cuba and join them in America, according to prosecutors. The government made the allegations Thursday in response to a federal lawsuit filed by Elian's Miami relatives seeking to block his return to Cuba.
1/31/00	U.S. Nonprofit Working with Cuban Partners Expresses Concern Over Politicization of Cuban Child Custody Case -- The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is concerned about the delay in returning young Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba, this six-year-old boyms only remaining parent.
1/13/00	Democrats Attack Burton's Subpoena of Cuban Boy -- 'It's like calling in a fire alarm for some reason other than a fire,' says one of the Chairman's critics.
1/13/00	Cuban Boy Surges As Political Issue -- Even some veteran Castro bashers cringed at the pictures of Elian Gonzalez clutching a subpoena in front of his little face as a Miami relative held him aloft.
11/12/99	Association for Fair Trade with Cuba
12/15/98	Congresswoman Barbara Lee Calls to End the Embargo on Cuba -- Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, today called for an end to a longstanding U.S. trade embargo with Cuba after she returned last week from a five-day fact-finding mission to the neighboring nation.
7/12/98	A Bomber's Tale -- A series of stories from the New York Times on exile links to acts of terrorism in Cuba.
5/5/98	Prominent Exile Organization Investigated for Links to Castro Assassination Plot -- When the Coast Guard approached the cabin cruiser La Esperanza near Puerto Rico last October, the four Cuban exiles aboard said they were on a fishing trip. But the only fishing gear on the boat was still in plastic wrappers, and the men said they had sailed the 900 miles from Miami in a single day -- a nautical improbability in their vessel.
5/1/98	A Closer Look at the Helms-Burton Law
4/1/98	Debunking the Embargo Myths
3/20/98	Clinton Announces Cuba Policy Changes
1/19/98	The Pope in Cuba: How the U.S. Should React