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Report: Andrew Cuomo to Treat Himself to Cuba Trip
Brendan O'Connor · 01/18/15 06:10PMCuba Releases 53 Political Prisoners as Part of Historic Deal With U.S.
Aleksander Chan · 01/12/15 08:55AMThe U.S. Freed a Cuban Spy's Sperm Months Before the Prisoner Exchange
Gabrielle Bluestone · 12/22/14 08:50PMBells Ring in Havana as U.S. and Cuba Plan to Finally End the Cold War
Taylor Berman · 12/17/14 02:20PMAmerican Prisoner Alan Gross Released From Cuban Prison After Five Years
Aleksander Chan · 12/17/14 09:35AMU.S. Covertly Infiltrated Cuba's Hip Hop Scene in Anti-Castro Operation
Andy Cush · 12/12/14 11:25AMThe United States Agency for International Development—the same government agency that funded "Cuban Twitter" and sent undercover youths to stoke civil unrest in the country—infiltrated Cuba's hip hop scene for two years with hopes of "[sparking] a youth movement against the government," according to an Associated Press investigation.
U.S. Releases Six Gitmo Detainees to Uruguay
Hudson Hongo · 12/07/14 10:30AMU.S. Sent Undercover Latin Youths to Cuba to Provoke Rebellion
Allie Jones · 08/04/14 07:44AMCuban Government May Have Cooked Up Senator's Prostitution Scandal
Andy Cush · 07/08/14 08:25AMBack in 2012, the Daily Caller whipped up a scandal around Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, who, the conservative blog alleged, liked his prostitutes Dominican and underaged. That story turned out to be fake, and now, it seems like forces even more nefarious than Tucker Carlson were behind it.
U.S. Secretly Created 'Cuban Twitter' to Undermine Castro's Government
Taylor Berman · 04/03/14 06:37AMFor more than two years, the United States secretly funded and developed ZunZuneo, a text-based social media platform, in order to encourage an uprising against the Cuban government, according to a report in the Associated Press. USAID spent at least $1.6 million—money that was publicly earmarked for programs in Pakistan—on the the clandestine project, which, at its peak, reached 40,000 Cubans and involved front companies in Spain and the Cayman Islands.
Shut the Hell Up About a Presidential Handshake Now, Please
Adam Weinstein · 12/10/13 04:27PMTaylor Berman · 07/16/13 08:54PM
The Cuban Foreign Ministry released a statement Tuesday, admitting ownership of the weapons found aboard a North Korean ship in Panama on Monday. The "obsolete defensive weaponry," which included anti-aircraft guns and two MiG-21 aircraft, was on its way to North Korea for repair, according to the statement.
Panama Stops North Korean Ship for Drugs, Finds Cuban Missile Instead
Nitasha Tiku · 07/16/13 10:15AMSnowden Snow Job: Leaker Fools Reporters on to Cuba Flight Without Him
Max Read · 06/24/13 07:03AMCop-Killing Terror Lady Is First Woman On FBI Terror List
Ken Layne · 05/02/13 05:03PMFugitive cop-killer Joanne Chesimard has become the first woman on America's Most Wanted Terrorists List, joining a previously all male list of super villains. Chesimard, who also goes by the aliases "Sister-Love Chesimard" and "Joan Davis," murdered a New Jersey state trooper 40 years ago today. Chesimard busted out of prison and has lived in Cuba ever since.
World’s Worst Friend President Obama: We Have 'Better Things to Do’ Than Plan Trips to Cuba for Beyoncé
Caity Weaver · 04/17/13 10:27AMPresident Obama showed his true colors in an interview on Today Wednesday morning, when host Savannah Guthrie asked if he had been aware that two normal, average American citizens named Beyoncé and Jay-Z were planning a visit to Cuba before the trip occurred.
Jay-Z, 'Rap's Bob Dylan,' Enrages Conservative Critics
Maggie Lange · 04/11/13 12:36PMSenator Demands Probe into Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Cuban Anniversary
Max Read · 04/09/13 07:20AMExcuse me, miss: did you really engage in cultural exchange with the Cuban people? Florida Senator Marco Rubio is ringing the alarm over Beyoncé and Jay-Z's fifth-anniversary trip to Cuba last week, which he claims was "seized on for propaganda purposes" by the Castro regime. The brief vacation was apparently given the green light by the Treasury Department, which licenses trips to Cuba for "educational exchange activities that will result in meaningful interaction"; according to the New York Times, the crazy-in-love couple "visited the children's theater group La Colmenita, where Beyoncé danced with little girls dressed as bumblebees," and Beyoncé, apparently feelin' it, "half-danced" during a performance by the Cuban Contemporary Dance Company on Friday, which would seem to qualify (if she were a boy she might have, as her husband did, enjoy "a Cuban cigar on the balcony of their government-owned hotel, the Saratoga"). According to Academic Arrangements Abroad, which planned and arranged the trip, the officials that run this town (well really, who run the world of Cuba) had no foreknowledge of the vacation and "struggled to provide adequate security" (What? Who? we imagine them saying), but worked it out—and got Beyoncé bodies to protect her—in the end. "If interested in what life really like in #Cuba @S_C_," Rubio tweeted, "should have visited persecuted rapper #AngelYunierRemon #99problems&dictatorsareone." Listen, Marco: I know you have sweet dreams of showing Jay-Z and his naughty girl what you got, and I get that it's a hard knock life for politicians representing Cuban exiles—can't knock the hustle for Florida Senators—but surely you can work it out without resorting to bad puns based on Jay-Z and Beyoncé tracks? It's like you're making the songs cry. Move on to the next one. [Reuters | TPM | NYT]