Baby slapping aboard flight sets off debate

<p style="text-align: justify;">America's latest folk-hero flight attendant may be the one on a Southwest Airlines jet who took a 13-month-old baby from her mother after the woman slapped the crying child for kicking her. Read More

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ND agriculture commissioner to lead Cuba trade trip; 8th such mission organized by agency

<p style="text-align: justify;">BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring on Wednesday said he will lead a five-person trade mission to Cuba in September. Read More

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The embargo, is it about to end?

<p style="text-align: justify;">WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is getting ready to relax travel restrictions to Cuba for some Americans, without lifting the trade embargo and a ban on U.S. tourism to the island, a congressional aide said on Tuesday. Read More

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Judge decries lenient treatment of banks but approves Barclays deal

<p style="text-align: justify;">A federal judge Wednesday denounced the Obama administration's treatment of major global banks accused of violating U.S. laws, saying the government lets them off easy by declining criminal prosecution in exchange for payments of hundreds of millions of dollars. Read More

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Cuba offers recreation to Russian firefighters

<p style="text-align: justify;">Moscow Time. Cuba has offered general and health recreation to overstressed Russian firefighters. The offer is in a message from the veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro to the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Read More

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The Asturian Avalanch Band to Perform in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, CUBA.- The Asturian heavy metal band Avalanch to perform on Wednesday at this capital’s Maxim Rock club, as part of a tour of Latin America to promote its most recent album El ladrón de sueños. Read More

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US. Considering changing Cuba policy?

The practically non-existent relationship between the Cuba and the United States is the last vestige of the Cold War. Read More

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Film on Jose Marti Receives Award in Festival

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban film ‘Jose Marti: el ojo del canario’ (Jose Marti: the Eye of the Canary) won the second Award of the Public during the recently concluded Film Festival of Lima, Peru. Read More

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ECONOMIST: Cuban-American Relations - Baby Steps

<p style="text-align: justify;">IT IS far too early to speak of a new dawn in Cuban-American relations. But since Barack Obama became president, he has revived the Florida Straits strategy of Bill Clinton, his Democratic predecessor, which promoted greater “people-to-people” contact between the two countries Read More

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Cuban Antiterrorist Says He is Confident of His Return to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 18 (acn) Fernando Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States, who is turning 47 today, ratified his confidence in their return to their homeland. Read More

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