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An April 2013 letter from U.S. Representative Kathy Castor of Florida to U.S. President Barack Obama on the subject of U.S. relations with Cuba is presented. She discusses her recent fact-finding trip to Cuba and explains her support for lifting the U.S. trade embargo against the country and related policies including restrictions on travel. Topics include economic conditions and economic policy changes in Cuba.

The article discusses the Cuban economy and the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, focusing on the rapidly growing Cuban market for cars, which are imported mainly from Japan and China. The author discusses the impact of the trade embargo on the U.S. economy. Religions growing in Cuba are also discussed, including Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, and Methodism.

The article discusses oil prospecting in Cuban ocean waters under Raúl Castro's administration that involves Cuba and other countries. It reports that a major oil find could affect the long-standing U.S. embargo on Cuban goods. Worries of a major oil spill in the area are expressed by Florida Senator Bill Nelson.

Reports on the economic conditions in Cuba as of July 10, 2000 in light of the return of the refugee boy Elian Gonzalez to his home country. Reasons for the economic hardships, including the 38-year-old economic embargo with the United States and the tight regulations of the government; Influence of the Communist party led by Fidel Castro; Relations between the US and Cuba after the Elian Gonzalez saga ended.

The article focuses on the changes in Cuba's economic structuring and its implications for the United States. The various reactions by Cuba to adjust to the fall of the Soviet Union, and establish trade partners around the U.S. economic embargo are listed. Details are given for Cuba's successful economic policies and trading arrangements despite actions taken by the U.S.

Focuses on the effects of a U.S. trade embargo in 1959 and the subsequent collapse of Soviet support, on the fertilizer, pesticide and food imports of Cuba. Strategies adopted by Cuba that lessened its dependence on chemical inputs and fossil fuels; Effect of the strategies on the economy of Cuba as of September 2002.

The article presents an interview with Janette Habel who teaches in the Institute of Latin American Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Topics include developments in the U.S. policy towards Cuba; how the U.S. President Barack Obama can overcome Congressional opposition regarding lifting of the commercial embargo on Cuba by the U.S.; and benefits of the normalization of the U.S.-Cuba relations on politics and economic situation in Cuba.

The article reports on the easing of some aspects of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, as of January 2011, and the effects this is expected to have on the Cuban economy.

The article presents news briefs related to Catholics and the Catholic Church. On January 8, 2005, Pope John Paul II called for an end to the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba so that adequate conditions for the Caribbean island's development could be met. Syrian-rite Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa of Mosul was freed unharmed in Mosul, Iraq, less than 24 hours after he was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen.

Discusses the United States embargo against Cuba. Details of a trip to Cuba by US Senate minority leader, Tom Daschle; His meeting with Cuban president Fidel Castro; Efforts by US leaders to exempt food and medicine from the embargo; Outlook on passage of various proposed bills through the US Senate and House of Representatives.