Michael Weissenstein

June 13, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Five months into the Trump administration, Cuba has a new set of American defenders: a coalition of high-tech firms, farming interests, travel companies and young Cuban-Americans thrown into action by the looming announcement of a new Cuba policy.

By Michael Weissenstein and Matthew Lee

5 minute read

June 05, 2017 | Daily Business Review

The Trump administration is close to announcing a new policy that would prohibit business with the Cuban military while maintaining the full diplomatic relations restored by former President Barack Obama, according to a administration official and a person involved in the ongoing policy review.

By Michael Weissenstein and Vivian Salama

6 minute read

November 10, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Cuba announced the launch of five days of nationwide military exercises to prepare troops to confront what the government calls "a range of enemy actions."

By Michael Weissenstein Associated Press

5 minute read

October 21, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Cuba is freezing new licenses for private restaurants in Havana as it struggles with the runaway success of one of the most important openings in the state-run economy.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

4 minute read

October 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Obama administration drops two of the most conspicuous restrictions of the U.S.-Cuba trade embargo.

By Michael Weissenstein

4 minute read

August 31, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed in the central city of Santa Clara on Wednesday morning, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

8 minute read

August 17, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Cuba's ruling Communist Party released a new set of economic guidelines that emphasize the slow-moving and limited nature of the country's reforms amid a sharp national economic downturn.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

6 minute read

August 04, 2016 | Daily Business Review

More than 2 million tourists have visited Cuba this year, state media said, putting the country on track for a record number of visitors bringing badly needed cash to an economy facing a sharp reduction in subsidized oil from its chief ally, Venezuela.

By Andrea Rodriguez and Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

4 minute read

July 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Miranda Hernandez's grandparents lost everything when they fled Cuba in the 1960s. She grew up thinking of the island as "North Korea with nice beaches," she said. But when four young Cuban-Americans started a program sending peers with similar island ties to explore their heritage after U.S.-Cuba detente, she applied. On Friday, after a week in Havana visiting entrepreneurs, artists and relatives she'd never met, the 20-year-old senior at the University of California, Berkeley flew home with impressions certain to upset many of her grandparents' generation.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

8 minute read

June 29, 2016 | Daily Business Review

American hospitality giant Starwood began managing a hotel owned by the Cuban military on Tuesday, opening one of the biggest holes in the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba since Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro declared detente in December 2014.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

6 minute read