President Barack Obama visited Cuba this weekend to talk to leader Raul Castro. This was the first time a U.S. president had been to Cuba since Calvin Coolidge’s visit in 1928. The relationship between the two countries has been strained…
American construction supplies will be sent to Cuba for the first time since the 1950s. The supplies will be used to restore author Ernest Hemingway’s home outside Havana. Hemingway lived in Cuba until 1961, when tensions rose between the United…
The Minnesota Orchestra performed in Cuba in mid-May, breaking the nearly 16-year gap when the last major American orchestra visited the country. The performance happened just a couple of months after the announcement that US-Cuba relations were beginning to thaw.…
Cuba has been removed from the U.S. list of terrorism sponsors. A statement from the US State Department said that the United States is still wary of many “of Cuba’s policies and actions,” but those issues aren’t related enough to…