HAVANA - The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a two-man company from Alabama to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000 small ...

Rep. Al Green standing in from on Air Force One before traveling to Havana, Cuba on March 20, 2016. Houston Congressman Al Green was part of a bipartisan delegation that accompanied President Barack ...

When Eduin Fraga was experiencing economic hardship in Cuba, he turned to art and grew to be an accomplished artist. “I started painting at 28 years old because I saw that my brother, who is also an ...

Cuba is a world leader in ecologically sustainable practices. It is the only country to have begun the large-scale transition from conventional farming, which is heavily dependent on fossil fuels, to ...

While he no longer held any formal position of power since his resignation as president for health reasons eight years ago, Fidel Castro's death last month marks the passing of an era. In his nearly ...

Cuba has the Caribbean's largest wetlands and earth's happiest lobsters, but is Fortress Fidel really an environmental paradise? PATRICK SYMMES heads south and finds that bold policies combined with ...

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Global Footprint Network's 2006 report, Living Planet, released last October, painted a grim picture of the calamitous state of the world's environment. It ...

For more than 60 years Washington administrations whether Democrat or Republican have maintained an embargo amounting to a blockade of the island nation of Cuba. The express purpose, as presented in ...