Photographer Unites With Cuban Scientists to Save the World's Most Beautiful Snail

Sporting some of the most beautiful shells in nature, Cuba's painted snails are endangered, but one photographer hopes to raise awareness.

By Blake Isbell

11 March 65 Views

These Factories Hire Storytellers to Read to Workers So They Can be Educated-and Entertained

The endearing factory tradition is an ingenious - and simple - way to make work more enjoyable and beneficial for the workers.

By Jeanne Goddard

20 April 78 Views

Lung Cancer Patient Given a Year to Live is in Remission Thanks to Cuban Vaccine

"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.

By Tiffani Spengler

25 March 60 Views

Cuba Legalizes Purchase and Sale Of Private Property

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

02 November 70 Views

SHE DID IT: Diana Nyad Completes Historic Cuba to Florida Swim

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

02 September 67 Views

Cuba Throws Lifeline to Sea Turtles

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 […]

By Jeanne Goddard

30 January 62 Views

Cuba to Abolish Equal Pay Caps on Workers, EU Drops Sanctions

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

20 June 64 Views

Cuba's Urban Farming Program a Stunning Success

"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."

By Jeanne Goddard

27 June 59 Views

Cuba Agrees To Free 52 Political Prisoners, Says Church

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

10 July 55 Views

Fidel Castro Says Cuban Communist Model Doesn't Work

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

10 September 59 Views

US to Restore Full Relations With Cuba, Erasing Last Trace of Cold War Hostility

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

19 December 70 Views

Travel Restrictions Lifted in Cuba Signaling Sea Change of Hope

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

15 January 72 Views

New Diplomacy Dawns in Cuba as U.S. Embassy Reopens After 54 Years

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

16 August 75 Views

US and Cuba to Reopen Embassies, Begin New Chapter in Diplomacy

After 55 years of isolation, the United States and Cuba will restore full diplomatic relations and reopen embassies in each others' countries July 20th.

By Jim Stout

01 July 77 Views