Pro-Cuba embargo money flows to US lawmakers

Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years, according to a study released late Sunday night by a group supporting campaign finance reform.

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AP Interview: Cuba FM says ready for talks with US

Cuba is willing to hold talks with the United States "on any level," Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Wednesday in conciliatory remarks aimed at the Obama administration.

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Clinton 'hated,' but defends, Haiti embargo

Bill Clinton grimaced Friday as he recalled the severe embargo he oversaw as president against Haiti's then-brutal regime, a move that destroyed the very economy he is now fighting to revive.

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Cuba looks for hints of ‘change’ from Obama

WASHINGTON — As Cuba marks the 50th anniversary of its Communist revolution this week, it is looking to Washington and wondering how Barack Obama, the 11th U.S. president to face the Castro regime, will change the stormy relationship with Havana.

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UN again urges US to lift embargo against Cuba

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Wednesday urging the U.S. to repeal its trade embargo against Cuba, and the island nation's foreign minister said he expects the next American president to respond positively.

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Cuba not hopeful Obama, McCain will lift embargo

Washington's trade embargo costs Cuba an estimated US$232 million per year in lost foreign investment, and Havana is not hopeful that the nearly half-century-old sanctions will be lifted regardless of who becomes the next U.S. president, a top official said Friday.

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Cuban Trade Embargo Expected to Remain

America's five-decade trade embargo on Cuba is expected to be far more durable than Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader it was aimed at deposing.

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Cuban Prima Ballerina Criticizes Embargo

The head of the Cuban national ballet implored American artists, writers and intellectuals to denounce Washington's 45-year-old embargo against the communist-run island, saying Friday that cultural exchanges between both countries should not be considered crimes.

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The United Arab Emirates has seized a cargo of North Korean weapons being shipped to Iran, which would have violated a U.N. embargo on arms exports from the communist state, Western diplomats said on Friday.

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The Obama administration is working with U.S. allies to develop ways to cut off North Korean shipments that may be carrying nuclear technology or other weapons.

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Opponents of the 47-year-old U.S. embargo against Cuba paint it as anachronistic and counterproductive. Supporters argue that it remains an important bargaining chip and a vital tool for promoting Cuban democracy. Now Pres.

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A majority of Americans feel that it is time to try a new approach to Cuba, according to a national poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org.

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A twist has emerged in the story of Israeli citrus fruit reportedly sold in Iran in defiance of a ban on commercial dealings between the two enemy states.

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Never in the past five decades has a U.S. administration faced a harder full court press from governments in the region, U.S. politicians and economic interests groups to radically alter its Cuba policy.

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The U.S. implements a new foreign policy towards Cuba. This Newsy.com video looks at the criticism of this move by President Barack Obama and what it means for Communist Cuba.

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The Obama administration said it would allow U.S. telecommunications companies to set up shop in Cuba, a step that may be mostly symbolic in the short term, as the president moves to take a new tack with Havana.

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President Obama yesterday loosened the American embargo against Cuba by lifting curbs on family travel and money transfers, as well as allowing US telecommunications companies to operate on the island for the first time in almost half a century.

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President Barack Obama is allowing Americans to make unlimited trips and money transfers to family in Cuba and easing other restrictions Monday to usher in a new era of openness toward the island nation ruled by communists for 50 years.

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(CNN) -- A new poll shows that two-thirds of Americans surveyed think the U.S. should lift its travel ban on Cuba, and three-quarters think the U.S. should end its five-decade estrangement with the country.

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Is President Barack Obama preparing to end 50 years of U.S. embargo against communist Cuba? It's certainly looking like it.

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The Castro regime is one of the most brutal, ruthless and amoral regimes of our time. While little mention of it is offered by the world media, due to their soft spot for murderers and thugs everywhere, the cruelty it embodies is no less true.

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Oil has become a double edged sword. It can now be wielded against the oil producing states as much as be wielded by them. More specifically the West can use oil to neutralize Iran's nuclear threat without military action.

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Barack Obama supports a provision in the spending bill before Congress that would allow Cuban-Americans to visit relatives on the island once a year and end limits on the sale of American food and medicines in Cuba. New Jersey Sen.

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Cuba matters to the United States. Now seems an opportune time for both the new U.S. administration and the new administration in Havana to settle their differences.

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U.S. policy toward Cuba today, like policy toward China in 1972, is overdue for change. Relations broke down 50 years ago because Washington was unwilling to countenance a Latin American client state escaping the orbit of U.S.

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Fifty years ago, Ernesto "Che" Guevara led a column of war-steeled rebels into Havana as Fidel Castro took the city of Santiago at the other end of the island and declared a Cuban revolution.

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Howard LaFranchi, CSMonitor Staff, opines ... "•Moving on Cuba would give Obama something of a "twofer," signaling to the rest of Latin America the advent of a different policy toward the hemisphere.

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On the morning of December 10, 2008, Cindy Sheehan, Nelson Valdes, Saul Landau, and I signed a declaration as the US delegates to an international conference assessing sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sponsored by the Network of Networks in Defense of Huma …

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"No major changes or initiatives, but a change in tone" - that is the commonly-held view of Washington analysts on Barack Obama's likely policies towards Latin America.

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U.N. member states voted in record numbers on Wednesday to urge the United States to lift its 46-year-old economic embargo against Cuba, in a non-binding measure adopted for the 17th straight year.

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The bearded one is ailing and has turned over the reigns of power to his brother, Raul. But Fidel Castro continues to have a prominent voice in the affairs of state, albeit as an editorial writer.

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Documents released by Wikileaks reveal that Cuba and Venezuela signed a confidential contract in 2006 to lay an undersea fibre-optic cable that bypasses the United States. The cable is to be completed by 2010.

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