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...

Díaz-Canel: U.S. pressures to change anti-blockade position

6 The U.S. government is pressuring and deceiving several countries to change their traditional position against the blockade against our people, Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and...

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....

T – Z | NJBIZ In the Lead 2025: Family-Owned Businesses

Tomasello is a fourth-generation, family-owned winery in New Jersey. – PROVIDED BY TOMASELLO Tomasello Winery Family owned since its inception in 1933 and now run by the fourth generation, Tomasello Winery is the largest – and oldest – winery in...

¿Con qué apoyo regional cuenta Maduro en plena tensión con EE.UU.? La respuesta describe a la historia reciente de Venezuela

Por German Padinger, CNN en Español En su momento de máximo poder y popularidad, el fallecido presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez contaba con una larga lista de aliados en la región, desde Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay hasta Ecuador y Bolivia,...

50,000 Cubans rally for Venezuela against US aggression

LAST Friday, over 50,000 Cubans attended a rally in solidarity with Venezuela, a country facing the threat of US military aggression. The crowd was made up of young people, workers, and soldiers gathered before the equestrian statue of Simon...

Cyprus Marks 65 Years of Diplomatic Ties With Cuba

Home Cyprus Cyprus Marks 65 Years of Diplomatic Ties With Cuba Cyprus Health Minister Michael Damianos praised the enduring friendship between Cyprus and Cuba during a commemorative event marking 65 years of diplomatic relations between the two...

What if Marcus Garvey and Maurice Bishop had access to Internet?

At the 3rd International Conference on Theoretical Publications of Latin American and Caribbean Left-wing Parties and Movements, held at Cuba’s Nico López Party University from October 15 to 17, 2025, veteran Saint Lucian journalist Earl Bousquet...

IT: Welcome to Derry Review – Pennywise’s Return Is Big on Lore, But Light on Scares

Given the record-breaking commercial success of Andy Muschietti’s two-part IT adaptation, it was only a matter of time before Warner Bros. Discovery tried to make some extra money with the franchise. The opportunity arose when Muschietti, together...

Immigration crackdown rattles U.S. labor market

Maria worked cleaning schools in Florida for $13 an hour. Every two weeks, she’d get a $900 paycheck from her employer, a contractor. Not much — but enough to cover rent in the house that she and her 11-year-old son share with five families. In...

US Senate committee approves three anti-Russian bills

WASHINGTON, October 22. /TASS/. The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved three anti-Russian bills, senator Jeanne Shaheen (Democrat, New Hampshire) told reporters. The American lawmakers passed a bill aimed at using sovereign Russian...

Cuban missile crisis: 13 stormy days in Oct 1962 when US, USSR came to brink of nuclear conflict

New Delhi: Miscalculation, misinformation and misperceptions in the fall of 1962 almost brought the two superpowers of the time, the US and the USSR, to the brink of nuclear conflict, as the sandy beaches of Cuba became home to a mini-arsenal of...

Bolivians Vote in Historic Runoff, Poised to End Two Decades of Socialist Dominance Amid Economic Turmoil

BOGOTA, Colombia – As the sun rises over the Andean highlands on Sunday, October 19, 2025, some 7.9 million Bolivians are streaming toward polling stations for the nation's first-ever presidential runoff election, a high-stakes contest that could...

Gymnastics center secures largest of 6 new commercial leases in northern N.J.

A 10,000-square-foot building was among six commercial lease transactions that were finalized recently across northern New Jersey. Neil Goldstein, principal of The Goldstein Group, reported the transactions for the Paramus-based retail real estate...

Cuban President Congratulates Russian TV on its 20th Birthday

Havana, Oct 17 (ACN) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated Russia’s RT Television Network on the 20th anniversary of its founding and thanked for the presence of its signal on the Island. In a video message, President Díaz-Canel said...

What Cheer and Backdrafts

By Casey Jarmes “Twice before in her history has What Cheer awakened in chill gray dawn to see blackened smoking ruins, homes and business buildings wiped out, but never until the dawn of Sunday, August 27, has What Cheer awakened to broken homes,...

'I love Trump but don't think it's fair': Pro-Trump Cubans revolt against White House

A number of pro-Trump Cuban Americans are revolting against the White House’s immigration policy after their own lives have been uprooted by President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Cuba, The Washington Post reported Sunday. One such Cuban American...

Mexico finances the Cuban regime while Pemex sinks into debt

Between May and August of 2025, Mexico sent more than 3 billion dollars in subsidized fuels to Cuba through the state subsidiary Gasolinas Bienestar, a figure that triples the shipments recorded during the last two years of the previous...

Trump’s immigration crackdown weighs heavy on US labor market

Maria worked cleaning schools in Florida for $13 an hour. Every two weeks, she'd get a $900 paycheck from her employer, a contractor. Not much -- but enough to cover rent in the house that she and her 11-year-old son share with five families, plus...