New Bridge to Havana

In December 2014, US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced they would normalize US-Cuban relations. What will this mean?

The Rolling Stones in San Diego, California on May 24, 2015.
Music
The next visitors to blow Cubans’ minds: The Rolling Stones
President Barack Obama and his family with Cuban President Raul Castro at an exhibition baseball game between the Cuban National team and the MLB Tampa Bay Rays in Havana.
Global Politics
Obama to Cuba: ‘I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas’
US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro gesture after a news conference as part of President Obama's three-day visit to Cuba. In Havana March 21, 2016.
Media
Freedom of the press ‘rattled’ Raúl Castro, causing him to answer a question with a lie
Krudas Cubensi
Music
Rap duo Krudas Cubensi gives queer Afro-Cubans a voice
Malecon at sunrise
Business
Slowly, Cuban entrepreneurs are seizing opportunities to work for themselves
A member of the 'Ladies in White' dissident group shouts as she is led away by police officers after they broke up a regular march of the group, detaining about 50 people, hours before U.S. President Barack Obama arrives for a historic visit.
Justice
The global spotlight isn’t stopping the Cuban government from cracking down on dissidents
Cubans
Justice
One Cuban family’s 6,600-mile trail to America
Air Force One carrying US President Barack Obama and his family flies over a neighborhood of Havana as it approaches the runway to land at Havana's international airport, March 20, 2016.
Global Politics
Forget your stereotypes. Here’s a young Cuban American who opposes rapprochement, and an older one who supports it.
Emad Hajjaj, Jordan
Media
10 cartoons from around the world reacting to President Obama’s Cuba visit
Jose Marti, 1853-1895
Conflict
President Obama lays a wreath on the tomb of legendary Cuban hero Jose Marti. But who was he?
Jose Antonio Colina, president of VEPPEX (Politically Persecuted Venezuelans in Exile), says his home country is worse off today than Cuba was in the 1960s, when the US enacted the Cuban Adjustment Act.
Global Politics
Venezuelans flee to the US, claiming their country is ‘worse than Cuba’ in the 1960s
cuban immigrants exodus 1994
Global Politics
Quiz: How much do you know about Cuba’s unique spot in immigration law?
Cuban jazz drummer Yissy Garcia
Music
A path-breaking Cuban concert — and a climate for more
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera reads from Hannah Arendt's book "The Origins of Totalitarianism" as part of a 100-hour collective reading in Havana May 20, 2015.
Justice
Cubans ‘don’t understand … things like freedom of expression are things that belong to them’
Calvin Coolidge’s triumphal procession through Havana, Jan 15th 1928
Global Politics
Rum, hookers and smuggling: the secret story of the last presidential visit to Cuba
Barack Obama and Raul Castro
Business
Obama will be hard pressed to secure advances in human rights and trade while in Cuba
A Cuban flag and a sticker of a U.S. flag are seen on the roof of tricycle taxi in Havana March 9, 2016.
Global Politics
Here’s why US-Cuban relations are so important to all of us
Farmer Juan Hernandez
Environment
The US has a lot to learn from Cuba about sustainable agriculture
Barack Obama tours Old Havana
Global Politics
Cuban Americans have stark disagreements on the merits of Obama’s visit to Cuba
Malule González (left) and her team work on the news rundown in the Radio and TV Martí newsroom in Miami.
Global Politics
With a thaw in US-Cuba relations, this Cold War broadcaster from Miami is at a crossroads
Ariadna Pérez Ballester is the only female skater in Camagüey, a city of 300,000 in central Cuba.
Culture
Skateboarding is technically illegal, but that’s not stopping the girls of Havana
Havana's Jose Marti International Airport
Global Politics
How the thaw in US-Cuba relations reunited a journalist’s family
Havana airport
Global Politics
US airlines will soon be able to offer hundreds of flights to Cuba every week
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, left, and Roman Catholic Pope Francis, right, met in Cuba Friday — a historic moment for the religions they represent, which have been at odds for 1,000 years.
Conflict
How the Middle East brought Eastern and Western Christianity together again — in officially atheist Cuba
Ana Marrero - WLRN
Justice
Once a prisoner in Cuba, a transgender Cuban woman vows to never return
Bottles of Havana Club rum are displayed inside a shop in Havana, November 25, 2015.
Business
Cuba wins control over the ‘Havana Club’ rum brand name
A triple of posters from left to right: “Take Heed, Hold Fast the Rope of Mother Wit” by Shahrzad Changalvaee (Tehran); “La Casa de Bernarda Alba” by Darwin Fornés (Havana); “A Family X-Mas” by David Gallo (Seattle).
Arts
Linking Havana, Tehran and Seattle through art, posters
Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco's memoir is The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood.
Culture
A Cuban American poet sees a brighter future for dissident artists on the island
Authentic Cuban experience could be ruined by American culture
Culture
Should you visit Cuba before Americans ‘ruin’ it?
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera reads from Hannah Arendt's book "The Origins of Totalitarianism."
Justice
Despite the thaw in US-Cuba relations, one Havana artist says she’s been ‘silenced as a lesson’
A man smokes a cigar while standing next to a window in Havana, January 20, 2005.
Health
Americans could soon benefit from a lung cancer vaccine developed in Cuba
A health worker is reflected in a mirror as he prepares protective equipment in Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown. Cuba has dispatched 165 health workers to the country to combat the Ebola outbreak.
Health
How Cuba is leading the international fight against Ebola