There was a time when the US and Cuba enjoyed good relations, with Cuba buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods and merchandise from the US and in return, Americans bought sugar from the Cubans. All of that changed in the late 1950s when Fidel Castro and the Communist party launched a successful [...]

In today’s modern times, it is essential to give importance to his or her own health. There are times when people forget of living the right lifestyle because of their busy schedule. With the many factors that affect someone’s body, finding ways of assessing his or her condition can definitely give helpful information of what [...]

According tax data recently released by the Cuban government, workers there are being taxed at astronomically high rates when compared to their American counterparts.  Cuban workers pay as much as 75% of their income in taxes.  Americans, in contrast, pay much lower rates as illustrated by this American tax calculator.  Before you accept that offer [...]

Everybody knows that the United States and the Republic of Cuba have not had a great political relationship over many years but very few know that the two countries have always had one common subject to share, talk and discuss – the Guantanamo Bay. This place became the topic of high motives and shared interests [...]

In these days of the almost militant anti-smoking lobby and alternative smoking products such as electronic cigarettes you would think there would no longer be much of a market for illegal Cuban Cigars in the USA. In September 2010 President Obama extended the embargo which prohibits US citizens from trading in Cuban products such as [...]

I was really looking forward to my holiday trip to Cuba along with my three mates. We had looked at several brochures for the place and researched all over the internet to give us the low down on what to expect. It was not a costly venture and after saving up for a few months we [...]

Do you have plans of spending a vacation here at Cuba? Everything that you need to know is highly accessible now through the internet like any information you want to avail online, such as facts on how to download Photoshop, if you intend to master this skill on your own. Below is some quick overview [...]

Ever since Fidel Castro and his 26th July Movement started the Cuban revolution in 1959, diplomatic relationships between the United States Of America and Cuba have been rather sour.  A trade embargo was brought in by the US government that would not allow US companies to trade with Cuba and  this embargo has remained in [...]

Although relations between the US and Cuba are still not always very clear, reasonable or even very easy for most people outside of the world of politics to understand, there is one occasion where representatives from both nations do get to meet, mingle and perhaps even exchange ideas and that is over a soccer ball [...]

Amidst the propaganda of the Cuban government about the threat the United States military imposes to their nation’s sovereignty, another enemy is busy occupying their island.  China has been sending huge fleets of Haier refrigerators to Cuba’s’ shores. Over a quarter of million Cuban households are replacing their inefficient refrigeration appliances with Chinese built Haier [...]

Cuba and America have without question suffered a strained relationship for many years and the implications of this are far reaching for everyday people like you and me. There are so many restrictions in place for both Cubans, Americans and Cuban Americans that it seems ridiculous in this day and age. Travel is restricted with [...]

Some friends of ours have just returned from a holiday in Cuba, paid for by their family as one of their golden wedding anniversary gifts. Apparently the couple visited the country many years ago and on this second visit they report many differences in the country which they suggest are a consequence of the economic [...]

TOP TEN SIGNS THAT THE CAFC REPORT IS BAD Insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting a different result… We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. –Albert Einstein The Bush Administration’s so-called “Commission for Assistance for a Free Cuba (CAFC),” issued in 2004, [...]