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Sanctions Over Speed: How the White House Quietly Recalibrated Its Cuba Bet

Seven months after Maduro's capture, Trump's predicted Cuba collapse hasn't arrived — Rubio now talks years, not weeks, as sanctions grind on.

Latin Times · Aug 23

New Twist In US-Cuba Trademark Fight Over Havana Club Rum

One rum, two owners: the decades-long legal battle between the Cuban government and spirits giant Bacardi over the popular Havana Club rum brand has entered a new phase with the enactment of a new US trademark law.

International Business Times · Jan 9, 2025

Sweeping blackouts in Cuba raise the question: Why has the island's solar buildout been so slow?

Cuba’s large-scale blackouts that left 10 million people without power this month wouldn’t have happened if the government had built out more solar power to boost its failing electric grid as promised, some experts say

The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2024

In a first, US government greenlights American investment in private business in Cuba

MIAMI — In what appears to be a first in more than six decades, the U.S. has authorized an American company to finance and invest in a private business in Cuba, an unprecedented move that could open the gate to American investment to help Cubans on the island gain economic…

Miami Herald · May 16, 2022