Bolivia’s new pro-business leader pledges to restore US ties after two decades

Photo credit: es-us.noticias.yahoo.com Bolivia's newly elected pro-business president vowed on Monday to restore diplomatic ties with Washington, as the South American country shifts to the right after nearly two decades of socialist rule, which...

Venezuela Uses Ghost Tankers to Evade U.S. Sanctions and Send Oil to Cuba - REPORT

While the U.S. is blowing up small vessels in the Caribbean, accusing Venezuela of using them to send drugs to the U.S., a new report affirms that the government of Nicolás Maduro is using a clandestine network of oil tankers to bypass U.S....

Cuba and Its Generational Problems

A Havana elder. By Eduardo N. Cordoví Hernandez HAVANA TIMES – I believe that as one grows older, the world shrinks considerably, becomes faster, and everything that once seemed important ceases to be so, while whatever once seemed trivial starts...

Mexican Government Used Shell Company to Give $3 Billion in Oil, Fuel to Cuba

The government of Mexico has been giving billions of dollars worth of oil to Cuba through a shell company and programs, in what the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, calls a humanitarian effort in response to the ongoing sanctions on the...

Cuba to rent hotels to international chains managing them

The Cuban government will rent some of the island’s hotes to international chains, which until now had only managed them, starting with the Spanish company Iberostar, according to EFE sources familiar with these negotiations. This represents a...

OPINION: The End of Free-Market Hypocrisy? What America’s U-Turn Means for the Caribbean?

By Professor C. Justin Robinson Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, The UWI Five Islands Campus For decades, the IMF and World Bank advised, some say forced, Caribbean nations to privatize essential services. Now Washington is doing the...

Brazil’s refugee crisis legal rights economic challenges and racial labor inequality

Brazil’s refugee crisis legal rights economic challenges and racial labor inequality Brazil is increasingly emerging as a key destination for the world’s asylum seekers. Between 2015 and 2024, the country received over 454,000 asylum applications...

TransTur Guantánamo Exhibits High Levels of Economic Efficiency and Productivity

Guantánamo.- The Guantánamo branch of the National Tourism Transportation Company, known as TransTur, shows high levels of economic efficiency and labor productivity since 2025, the year in which it celebrates the 45th anniversary of its founding....

Cuba Honors Fidel Castro's Legacy at Pre…

Cuban journalists convened in Havana today to discuss the communications legacy of Fidel Castro at the Granma-Rebelde Festival. The event, which celebrates the upcoming centenary of his birth, promotes a press committed to the ideals of the...

Mark Cuban says Cost Plus Drugs will partner with TrumpRx

LAS VEGAS — Online pharmacy Cost Plus Drugs will be participating in President Donald Trump’s drug price transparency tool, TrumpRx, according to Cost Plus’ founder Mark Cuban. Cuban shared the news during his keynote at the HLTH conference on...

Imperialism “Cannot Make Us Abandon the Path of Socialism,” Reaffirms Cuban Foreign Minister

September 30, 2025 Peoples Dispatch Bruno Rodríguez Parilla, Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, condemns UN inaction on Palestine and US blockade of Cuba at solidarity event. “Imperialism cannot erase the unquestionable social and economic...

On the Eightieth Anniversary of the World Federation of Trade Unions

Paris October 3, 2025 Honorary President the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). President International Workers Institute (I.W.I) To know where we are going, we must know where we come from. And we go far toward the abolition of exploitation...

Rich Silverstein Revisits Cuban Missile Crisis Through Surreal, AI-Driven Lens

What happens when the Cuban Missile Crisis becomes a Broadway-style musical written with AI? That’s the question ad agency luminary Rich Silverstein (co-founder of Goodby Silverstein & Partners) asks in his newest artistic experiment, 13 Days: The...

Cubans in Vietnam commemorate National Culture Day

“On this date, it’s necessary for us all to remember the heroic struggles of our people, but above all, the unity that has led us to move forward and reach the achievements of the Revolution,” Rogelio Polanco, the island’s ambassador here, stated...

Global potato trade adjusts as prices fall and exports shift

The global potato industry is undergoing a period of adjustment across key production and export regions, with developments ranging from market access negotiations to sharp price corrections in Europe. In North America, a Mexican trade delegation...

Mark Cuban on health care’s failings: ‘We are complicit’ | HLTH 2025

Las Vegas - Mark Cuban asked if anyone liked the economic system in the health care industry. When he said it’s messed up (he used a different word than “messed”), many in the audience applauded, as they did often during his address at the HLTH...

Business News | CBIC Extends GSTR-3B Filing Deadline to Oct 25 for Monthly and Quarterly Filers

New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has extended the GSTR-3B filing deadline to October 25, 2025, for both monthly filers (September 2025) and quarterly filers. This extension by CBIC was announced...

Iberostar, the First International Chain Authorized to Rent Hotels in Cuba

Foreign companies will have more freedom to manage facilities and set wages The first hotel on the island to implement the new formula will be the Iberostar Origin Laguna Azul in Varadero, starting January 1st. / Facebook/Magdiel Perez Martinez...

Immigration crackdown weighs heavy on the US labor market

Shirley Warthen, 93, a resident, left, pulls in Jackie Conteh, an advanced care partner originally from Sierra Leone, for a hug in her apartment at Goodwin House Alexandria, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/Eric Lee) Maria...

F – M | NJBIZ In the Lead 2025: Family-Owned Businesses

Julio and Marty Gillis. – PROVIDED BY THE GILLS ORGANIZATION Gillis Organization Gillis Organization runs 15 McDonald’s locations across the state, led by Julio Morgan Gillis, a second-generation McDonald’s operator, and his mother, Marty Gillis....