Michael Weissenstein

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

March 22, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Online lodging service Airbnb is allowing travelers from around the world to book stays in private homes in Cuba after the San Francisco-based company received a special authorization from the Obama administration.

By Michael Weissenstein

5 minute read

March 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

President Barack Obama is wagering that reforging links between the U.S. and Cuba will do more to change Cuba's single-party government and centrally planned economy than a half-century of confrontation.

By Andrea Rodriguez, Michael Weissenstein and Josh Lederman, Associated Press

6 minute read

February 26, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Cuban government has loosened travel restrictions on some of the island's best-known dissidents, granting them one-time permission to travel abroad ahead of President Barack Obama's trip to the island, activists said.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

3 minute read

February 17, 2016 | Daily Business Review

U.S. air carriers must file plans for Cuba service within 15 days. American, United, Delta, Southwest, Jet Blue and Spirit are expressing interest.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

4 minute read

February 17, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a two-man company from Alabama to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000 small tractors a year for sale to private farmers in Cuba.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

5 minute read

February 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The heads of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches will hold a historic meeting in the threadbare international airport of an officially secular, communist-run tropical island.

By Andrea Rodriguez and Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

4 minute read

February 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Otto Macias' family is suing the U.S. government seeking to reinstate the his pension. They say President Barack Obama's loosening of the embargo offers the ailing 75-year-old a final chance to regain his benefits and win the recognition of the military service that his adopted country has denied him for 35 years.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

4 minute read