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The Visitor Book in Havana

Natalia Suyos · Jul 15, 2026

Cuba’s Tourism Ministry Is on the Sanctions List

Natalia Suyos · Jul 14, 2026

The Podium That Used to Be a Sure Thing

Natalia Suyos · Jul 9, 2026

The Open Door into the Lawsuit

Natalia Suyos · Jul 8, 2026

The Dark Room Cuba Pleaded From

On the day Cuba's foreign minister stood at the United Nations rostrum demanding the world condemn Washington's fuel blockade, the island's power grid collapsed for the third time this year. The podium was lit. Havana was not.

Natalia Suyos · Jul 7, 2026

The Cable That Couldn't Stay Quiet

Natalia Suyos · Jul 6, 2026

The Telegram That Refilled the Tank

Natalia Suyos · Jul 5, 2026

The Gag Order That Proved the Case

A leaked State Department cable reveals that Washington is pressuring UN member states to block a July 7 debate on its Cuba blockade — and in doing so, has written the most damning confession of its own policy yet. Three days before the vote, the gag order is the argument.

Natalia Suyos · Jul 4, 2026

The Vote That Changes Nothing

Cuba has called an emergency UN General Assembly session for July 7 to protest Washington's oil blockade — summoning the world to a room where the world has already voted, 187 to 2, thirty-three times, to no effect. The most attended vote in international diplomacy is also the most ignored.

Natalia Suyos · Jul 3, 2026

The Colt That Broke the Fence

Natalia Suyos · Jul 2, 2026

The Door That No One Could Unlock

The Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that Helms-Burton strips sovereign immunity from Cuban state companies — the same day Washington designated five more regime entities under EO 14404. One ruling, one date, and the architecture of pressure around Cuba's state enterprise system suddenly has a legal foundation it never had before.

Natalia Suyos · Jun 30, 2026

The Refinery That Finally Has to Answer

The Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that the Helms-Burton Act strips Cuban state companies of sovereign immunity, clearing the way for ExxonMobil and other claimants to pursue decades-old confiscation cases in American courts — and erasing the last procedural shield protecting the Cuban regime's expropriated empire.

Natalia Suyos · Jun 29, 2026

The Bank That Has No Wires

Natalia Suyos · Jun 28, 2026

The Blueprint That Nobody Asked For

Cuba's National Assembly just rubber-stamped 176 sweeping economic reforms — private banks, foreign investment, unlimited private workers — the biggest overhaul since 1959. The blueprints were always in the drawer. What changed is that the regime finally ran out of excuses not to open it.

Natalia Suyos · Jun 27, 2026

The Ward That Is Still Open

Natalia Suyos · Jun 26, 2026

The Refinery That Owes for Its Own Confiscation

Natalia Suyos · Jun 25, 2026

The Ore That Cannot Be Sold

Washington has designated GEOMINERA—Cuba's non-nickel mining enterprise and its Australian partner Antilles Gold's anchor—under E.O. 14404, while simultaneously placing Alejandro Castro Espín's adult family member on the SDN list. The sanctions architecture has moved from targeting entities to targeting households.

Natalia Suyos · Jun 24, 2026

The Ledger That Cannot Be Spent

Natalia Suyos · Jun 23, 2026

The Door That Opens Into a Wall

Cuba's National Assembly unanimously passed 176 free-market reforms on June 19 — the most radical economic overhaul since the revolution. But the same sanctions architecture Washington spent 2026 building makes every investor who might answer that invitation a sanctions target.

Natalia Suyos · Jun 22, 2026

The Vault That Opened From the Inside

Natalia Suyos · Jun 21, 2026

The Family on the List

On June 4, Washington designated the wives, sons, and grandsons of Cuba's ruling families under a new secondary-sanctions framework. When the family becomes the target, the policy has stopped pretending the state and the bloodline are separate things.

Natalia Suyos · Jun 20, 2026

The Institute of Friendship Is on the List — But So Is Everything Else

Natalia Suyos · Jun 19, 2026

The Blueprint That Cannot Be Read

On June 12, Díaz-Canel unveiled Cuba's most ambitious economic reform package in years — then admitted he couldn't share the details because the enemy might be reading. The blueprint is the message.

Natalia Suyos · Jun 18, 2026

The Aid Ship in the Revolution's Harbor

A Colombian ship carrying food, medicine, and solar panels docked in Havana Bay on June 12 — the latest in a series of humanitarian deliveries to a country that once sent doctors and solidarity outward to the world. The direction of the current has reversed.

Natalia Suyos · Jun 17, 2026

The Private Sector Was Supposed to Be the Point

The Trump administration has blocked a Florida company's contracted delivery of 250,000 barrels of fuel to Cuba's private sector. Washington spent a decade insisting the private sector was the point — and then killed the shipment.

Natalia Suyos · Jun 16, 2026

The Chart on the Prosecutor's Table

Natalia Suyos · Jun 14, 2026

The Tanker That Answered to Two Masters

Natalia Suyos · Jun 12, 2026

Nickel for the Revolution

Natalia Suyos · Jun 11, 2026

The Name Linked to Díaz-Canel

Natalia Suyos · Jun 10, 2026

The Institute of Friendship Is Closed

Washington's June 4 SDN designations placed Cuban President Díaz-Canel, three generations of the Castro family network, and — in a detail the wire copy buried — the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples on the Treasury's blocked-persons list. The velvet glove is in the archive.

Contributor · Jun 9, 2026

The Neighborhood Is on the List

Washington's June 4 sanctions package went beyond generals and ministers — it designated Cuba's neighborhood surveillance committees and the president's own family members, drafting the organism itself into American law.

Contributor · Jun 8, 2026

The Only Cards Left

Contributor · Jun 7, 2026

Spanish Hotel Giants Iberostar, Meliá Retreat From Cuba Under U.S. Sanctions Threat

Staff · Jun 3, 2026

Supreme Court ruling puts Cuba’s stolen-property tourism model on notice

Simons Chase · May 31, 2026

Years after Cuba Journal warning, Blue Diamond exit exposes fragility of Cuba’s hotel model

Simons Chase · May 31, 2026

Why Cuba Should Reject The Global Junk Food Cabal

Staff · Sep 21, 2017

A Cuban Raft Refugee Launches Travel Site In U.S., Lands Kardashians

Staff · Aug 23, 2017

Cuba's Habanos SA Inks Agreement To Expand Cigar Sales In China

Staff · Aug 10, 2017

At Mid-Year, Cuba's Economy Struggles To Maintain Growth

Staff · Jul 16, 2017

U.S. Farmers Suffer As Exports To Cuba Crater

Staff · Jul 6, 2017

VIDEO: Comparing Airbnb And Meliá Hotels In Cuba

Staff · Jun 10, 2017

VIDEO: Cuba's CIMAvax Enters Two U.S. Trials

Staff · May 20, 2017

Havana Hospitality Conference Addresses Sustainability and Resilient Design

Staff · May 20, 2017

Meliá Reports Strong Cuba Business in 2016, Projects Positive 2017

Staff · May 17, 2017

Here’s How To Think About Cuba’s Potential Impact On Caribbean Travel

Staff · May 7, 2017

Spanish Hotel Chain Melia Announces Cuba Expansion Plans

Staff · May 4, 2017

Lessons from the Failure of Carnival’s Fathom Brand

Staff · Apr 18, 2017

Here Is Cuba's Premier Hotel and Investment Conference For 2017

Staff · Apr 17, 2017

In Conversation: St Giles Hotel's Abigail Tan-Giroud

Staff · Apr 13, 2017