Jul 20 Watch 4:03 After five decades of hostility, what’s next for U.S. and Cuba By PBS News Hour Now that relations have been officially normalized, what’s next for diplomacy between Cuba and the United States? Judy Woodruff gets insight from María de los Angeles Torres of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch 4:57 Che Guevara’s son on Cuba’s coming identity crisis By PBS News Hour When Omar Perez was 25, he found out his father was the revolutionary Che Guevara. For Perez -- a poet, artist and musician -- the revelation didn’t much change his outlook on life, or on Cuba. Jeffrey Brown talks to… Continue watching
Jul 01 U.S., Cuba agree to open embassies in each other’s capitals By Julie Pace, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States and Cuba have agreed to open embassies in each other's capitals, the biggest tangible step in the countries' historic bid to restore ties after more than a half-century of hostilities. Continue reading
Jun 17 Watch 8:14 Will better relations with U.S. mean an easing of censorship in Cuba? By PBS News Hour Cuba has one of the lowest rates of Internet connectivity in the Western Hemisphere. In this installment of our continuing series “Cuban Evolution,” Jeffrey Brown looks at Cuban access to the Internet, the effect it has on people’s lives and… Continue watching
Jun 17 The Fixer’s Tour Guide to Havana By Frank Carlson Cuba is a place where it helps to "know a guy," and for journalists, that guy is your fixer. Our fixer Josue Lopez seemed to know someone in just about every place we went. So on our last evening in… Continue reading
Jun 16 Watch 7:29 Will development help or hurt Cuba’s iconic architecture? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 16 Photos: In Havana, beauty and decay coexist By Frank Carlson You see it as soon as your plane touches down in Havana -- in the decades of texture worn into a pastel wall, in a brightly colored car parked on a quiet city street, in an elderly woman with flowers… Continue reading
Jun 15 Watch 8:18 For better or for worse — what would an end to the embargo mean for Cuba? By PBS News Hour As the relationship between Cuba and America improves, what will a potential end to the embargo mean for the two countries? Reporting from Havana, Jeffrey Brown looks at how closer ties to America could change Cuba, and the Cuban way… Continue watching
Jun 15 Reporting from Cuba, a place frozen in time yet full of potential By Jeffrey Brown Deciding to go to Cuba was the easy part, for all the obvious reasons: the history, the politics, the culture, the place, the fact of it being — the cliché is true — so close and yet so far away. Continue reading
Feb 03 8 places to see in Cuba if Congress lifts the travel ban By Marina Lopes Congress is debating a bill that would allow Americans unfettered access to Cuba for the first time in 50 years. To help jump start your travel plans for a Cuban vacation, we decided to ask some former locals to recommend… Continue reading