Simons Chase 
Cuba’s economic transition is creating a lot of interest from suppliers and exporters eager to capitalize on a recently opened society. The island nation’s large modernization needs in infrastructure, stagnating investment rates, low agricultural output, a lack of internal supply in consumer segments and a booming tourism industry create a wide variety of export opportunities … Read more
If you are a lifelong learner and prefer immersive travel over tourism, Road Scholar is the best way to experience Cuba. Road Scholar was founded in 1975 as Elderhostel originally designed for week-long, university-level educational experiences for adults. A not-for-profit education organization, it has guided generations of knowledge seekers on transformative learning adventures from Greenland … Read more
Go to Cuba and learn why your camera takes on a mind of its own. You may also find why the simplest things are closer to the truth.
by Simons Chase For a brief moment last week, entering the towering nave of the Basilica San Francisco de Asis, a 16th century baroque chapel in Havana, led not to a pious religious ceremony but to a gathering around the high altar of “diplomacy through technology” that has been woven into the fabric of U.S.-Cuba … Read more
José D. Fernández’s death in a boating accident near a rocky Miami Beach inlet on September 25, 2016 highlighted the huge impact Cuban baseball players are making in Major League Baseball (MLB). Fernández was a professional baseball pitcher who came to the U.S. from Cuba just years before his baseball career started. He played for … Read more
According to Scuttlebutt Sailing News, sailing teams racing monohulls and multihulls are to compete in races from the Florida Keys to two Cuban cities during the 13-day Conch Republic Cup. The event, also known as Key West Cuba Race Week, starts Sunday, Jananury 22, 2017 and continues through Friday, February 3. The 2017 event is … Read more
Born in Havana in 1853, José Julián Martí y Pérez was the son of poor Spanish immigrants. Thanks to the aid of his teacher, Martí was able to attend high school at the time the Ten Years’ War, Cuba’s first struggle for independence. Martí quickly committed himself to the cause, publishing his first newspaper La … Read more
Today, Cuba and the U.S. signed a bilateral agreement to prepare for and respond to oil spills and hazardous substance pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Florida. Under this agreement, the United States and Cuba will cooperate and coordinate in an effort to prevent, contain, and clean up marine oil and … Read more
Havana Club Rum is a Cuban icon known by rum enthusiasts worldwide – except in the U.S. where its importation is restricted by the U.S. embargo and its trademark is the subject of an epic legal battle with spirits giant Bacardi. What’s not well known is the taste of Cuban culture the Cuban rum brand … Read more
According to official Cuban data, the island nation’s economy fell 0.9% in 2016. A political and economic crisis in key trading partner Venezuela is to blame, according to President Raul Castro at a speech at Cuba’s National Assembly on Tuesday. He predicting a slightly brighter outlook for 2017. The impact of Cuba’s sharp economic contraction … Read more
