As tensions between the US and Cuba rise to the highest levels since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the mood was grim at a recent staff meeting at the US Embassy in Havana.

As warships searched the seas during the Cuban Missile Crisis a dramatic showdown unfolded at the United Nations. This episode examines how a public clash between diplomats revealed just how close the world was to nuclear war.

Cuban citizens are no strangers to the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The island has weathered hardships since the 1990s.

And even after six decades there is an important lesson to be learned. The story is familiar to most of our more seasoned readers. In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, Cuba's communist dictator Fidel Castro vowed that any future attempt to ...

A map prepared by the Defense Department in 1962 shows potential ranges of Soviet ballistic missiles from Cuba. Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis briefing materials/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Sixty-three years ago, President ...

Pursuing higher education in Cuba no longer secures a promising future, nor does it ensure a stable present. Due to the severe economic crisis and