Author Lisandro Pérez knows Cuba’s long history: a Spanish colony, the British occupation, wars of independence, U.S. military occupation, the Batista dictatorship and the Castro revolution. In his ...

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: There and Here -- Part I: Dispatches from The First America -- Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell -- Chapter 2: Key to the Indies -- Chapter 3: Copper Virgin -- ...

The end of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola fifty years ago was also the beginning of a Cuban military mission that had a ...

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared toward Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island's president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated—1 of every 15 ...

A look back on the turbulent history between Cuba and the United States — -- Cuba and the United States have been on the rocks for more than a 150 years, until now. From CIA-sponsored coups, to ...

TRINIDAD, Cuba -- For 56 years, Carlos Zerquera has preserved Trinidad's history with his only tools: a pen, a steady hand and the patience of a redwood tree. Working in a straight-backed chair at a ...

In recent years "making poverty history" has become the fashionable cause for ageing rock stars such as Bono and Sir Bob Geldof. As global poverty means that each year 9 million children die of ...

A stunning 10% of Cuba’s population — more than a million people — left the island between 2022 and 2023, the head of the country’s national statistics office said during a National Assembly session ...

After tearing across Jamaica, Melissa moved northeast toward Cuba, making its second landfall along the southern coast of ...

The House On G Street is Lisandro Perez' newest book. The title refers to the house that his grandfather built in 1920 in Vedado, Havana Cuba. "I got a sense of belonging and a sense of family in that ...