New U.S. Citizen From Cuba Celebrates 'First Paycheck in America' in Viral Video-WATCH
A video of a recent Cuban immigrant celebrating his first paycheck as UPS driver has gone viral in celebration of the American dream.
A video of a recent Cuban immigrant celebrating his first paycheck as UPS driver has gone viral in celebration of the American dream.
In a rare moment of criminal justice, Guantánamo Bay detainees managed to win themselves some rights, but not the ones you might imagine.
Thawing relations between the two countries could lead to tests of a Cuban cancer vaccine in the U.S.
An organic, green revolution, largely unnoticed, is well under way in Cuba -- essentially unprecedented both within the developed and undeveloped world -- establishing a self-sustaining system of agriculture that by necessity is essentially organic.
Since America's embargo with Cuba was lifted, the Caribbean country has been struggling to welcome the overwhelming amount of tourists at Havana Airport.
Sporting some of the most beautiful shells in nature, Cuba's painted snails are endangered, but one photographer hopes to raise awareness.
The endearing factory tradition is an ingenious - and simple - way to make work more enjoyable and beneficial for the workers.
"When they told me I had a year to live, I didn't know how, but I was going to prove them wrong." She turned to immunotherapy—and did just that.
Cuba announced Thursday it is allowing the purchase and sale of real estate for the first time since the early days of the revolution, the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes ushered in by President Raul Castro. The change follows the legalization in October of the purchase and sale of cars.
This time, neither storm, jellyfish, nausea nor utter fatigue could keep 64-year-old endurance swimmer Diana Nyad from achieving her lifelong ambition of conquering the Straits of Florida. Nyad today became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, willing her way to a Key West beach, victorious on her fifth try in 35 years.
Cuba has thrown a lifeline to the Caribbean's endangered and critically endangered marine turtles with a government resolution ending all harvesting of marine turtles. Such a resolution, ending Cuba's long standing harvest of 500 critically endangered hawksbill turtles a year, has been sought by conservationists for more than a decade. It will benefit turtles hatching […]
Cuba is to end its policy of equal pay for all and allow workers and managers to earn performance bonuses -- another in a series of new reforms coming from the government of president Raul Castro.
"Cuba's urban farming program has been a stunning, and surprising, success. The farms, many of them on tiny plots now supply much of Cuba's produce while also providing 350,000 jobs nationwide with relatively high pay."
Cuba has promised the Roman Catholic Church it will free 52 political prisoners, slashing the number held by nearly a third in what would be the communist-led island's largest release of dissidents since Pope John Paul II visited in 1998.
In the only interview he has given an American journalist since he left office, Fidel Castro told a reporter from The Atlantic magazine that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work -- even for Cuba.
President Obama on Wednesday ordered the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Cuba and the opening of an embassy in Havana for the first time in more than a half-century as he vowed to "cut loose the shackles of the past" and sweep aside one of the last vestiges of the Cold War.
Many of the 11 million Cubans have been eagerly awaiting this day since the government announced the change in October. Starting Monday, a new kind of migration commences as the communist government eliminates a long-standing restriction on Cubans' ability to leave the country.
54 years ago three US Marines lowered the flag in Havana as the US ended relations with Cuba. The same men raised the flag again Friday at the reopened US embassy.
After 55 years of isolation, the United States and Cuba will restore full diplomatic relations and reopen embassies in each others' countries July 20th.
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