Michael Weissenstein Associated Press

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

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

June 16, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Twenty years ago a Canadian developer won the right to build golf courses and condominiums across 2.5 miles of lush green ridgeline and crescent beaches lapped by the emerald waters of the Florida Straits just 40 miles from Havana.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

8 minute read

April 21, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The former guerrilla fighters who founded Cuba's single-party government will hold power for years to come after a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress kept President Raul Castro and his hard-line deputy in the top leadership positions.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

7 minute read

March 30, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Days after President Barack Obama's historic visit, the leaders of Cuba's Communist Party are under highly unusual public criticism from their own ranks for imposing new levels of secrecy on the future of social and economic reforms.

By Andrea Rodriguez and Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

12 minute read