The degree to which new U.S. sanctions, due in part to Cuba’s support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, have compounded its economic woes ... on an estimated US$1.5 billion in short ...

Cuba obtained independence from ... Castros-led communist regime versus U.S.-led transition to a capitalistic democracy under American influence. The experience is well worth trying.

The leaders in Cuba say that their economic issues are linked to US trade embargoes which were imposed after the 1959 revolution. Cuba recently ppealed to the UN for special milk powder for children.

Most did not expect exile to last long, but thought Cuba would soon ... The Cuban American community in Miami, just emerging as an important economic and political force, would have to contend ...

For centuries, Cuba was one of the world’s great sugar producers, with a long history of enslavement and exploitation of those who worked on the plantations. But sugar workers learned how to organize ...