If travel and trade between the United States and Cuba were to be normalized, the first five years of those relations would yield an increase of some $21 billion in goods and services exchanged.

The recent politicized dismissal of the indictment against Luis Posada Carriles by federal judge Kathleen Cardone has brought the historically thorny relationship between the U.S. and Cuba once again to the forefront of the news.

Luis Posada Carriles is one of Latin America's most notorious criminals, a terrorist protected by the U.S. and allowed to live freely within its borders.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary Sicko.

Jose Antonio “Toñin” Llama, the Cuban-American National Foundation leader who made headlines months ago when he revealed how he was cheated after investing millions in an anti-Cuba terrorist conspiracy, has just confirmed to The Miami Herald that he participated in meetings of Miami groups where plans were made for the bombing attacks that occurred in Havana throughout 1997.

I hold nothing against Brazil, even though to more than a few Brazilians continuously bombarded with the most diverse arguments that could well confuse even people who traditionally have been friendly to Cuba, we might sound callous and careless about hurting that country’s net income of hard currency.

Cuba condemns the shameless decision to release terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and singles out the US government as the only one responsible for this ruthless and infamous act seeking to buy the silence of the terrorist on his crimes at the service of the CIA, particularly when Bush Sr. was its Director-General.

The two federal attorneys of the U.S. Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section, instructed by Attorney General Gonzales to sink the Posada Carriles case forever, are well aware to what dead-end alley they have taken the case.

George W. Bush is undoubtedly the most genuine representative of a system of terror forced on the world by the technological, economic and political superiority of the most powerful country known to this planet.

Before some 30 of his supporters representing various groups preaching the use of terror against Cuba, Luis Posada Carriles – still not accused of terrorism, in violation of a number of international conventions – offered a property valued at $2.5 million as guarantee for his bail application.

The signing of agreements to sell food from the US state of Nebraska to Cuba confirms Wednesday the increasing rejection of that country´s managerial sector of the economic, financial and trade blockade against the island.

Washington may be Losing its Right, let Alone its Political Ability to Maintain its Control over Guantánamo

Before believing my eyes, I had to read twice “US program for defecting Cuban doctors a success”, written by Mr. Pablo Bachelet and published in the Miami Herald on 3/11/07.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been quietly pushing for Cuban reform. She chairs the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba (CAFC), in order to "explore ways the US can help hasten and ease a democratic transition in Cuba."

Washington and Wall Street want him to die. And surely there are folks out there who have been wishing him a quick death — the sooner he dies, the better, as they would say — while he has survived as many as 638 assassination attempts on him, mostly credited to the US government and its secret services.

The U.S. government has refused to grant visas to U.S. cyclists invited to the 32nd Tour of Cuba, say the organizers of the traditional tour.

On the 31st of January, the Government of the United States used another legal subterfuge to avoid arraigning Luis Posada Carriles for what he really is: a criminal and a terrorist.

“It can be said that with few leaders have I developed such a deep friendship as the one there was between Amilcar and I,” said Cuban President Fidel Castro once, referring to African national hero Amilcar Cabral, “a thinker of great intellectual capacity, a creator and an especially humane person.”

An article on Haiti that appeared in Time magazine in January 1973 – at the end of the dictatorship of “Papa Doc” Duvalier and the commencement of his son “Baby Doc’s harsh rule– states: “There is also a sound on the city streets that to most urban Americans is unfamiliar: laughter.”

Adolfo Franco, the official who administrates the Latin American funds for USAID on behalf of the godfathers of the Cuban-American mafia, has managed to almost completely conceal the whereabouts of $65.4 million donated by this federal fund throughout the last decade.