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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Quentin DUVAL |Ed Augustin |Laurence Cuvillier
2 hours agoWhat do you regret doing on a plane? Chances are, it involves a drink. As in, drinking and working on a computer. That's what Peter Lewis did on a recent flight from Minneapolis to New York – with disastrous results. There was a cup of coffee next to his laptop, "and sudden turbulence that shook the …
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
france24.com | Ed Augustin |Matthieu Comin |Laurence Cuvillier
On Wednesday January 15, in a final snub ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House, US President Joe Biden announced the surprise removal of Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism.…
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Ed Augustin
On Wednesday January 15, in a final snub ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, US President Joe Biden announced the surprise removal of Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. The decision came after a series of changes in the relationship between the US and Cuba in recent years. With the return of Trump to the White House, Cubans fear new diplomatic tensions between Washington and Havana, and a negative impact on tourism and the island’s economy.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ed Augustin |Hannah Cohen
A decade since the United States and Cuba restored diplomatic relations - which many believed would transform the island - Cuba is in its worst crisis since Fidel Castro took power. Luis Manuel Perez, 57, (with hat) waits in front of Havana's Central Park with other drivers, sometimes for hours, hoping that a tourist will hire him for a classic car ride around Havana. Credit...
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ed Augustin |Hannah Berkeley Cohen
Hace 10 años, el presidente Barack Obama sorprendió al mundo al restablecer las relaciones diplomáticas con Cuba, poniendo fin a más de 50 años del distanciamiento de la Guerra Fría entre Estados Unidos y un país con el que en su día estuvo al borde de la guerra nuclear.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ed Augustin |Hannah Berkeley Cohen
It wasn't long ago that Havana's Plaza of the Revolution was packed with American tourists knocking into each other with selfie sticks while taking photos of the iconic image of the revolutionary Che Guevara and trying to catch a ride in a candy-apple red 1952 Chevrolet Bel-Air. Today, those polished 1950s-era American convertibles that came to symbolize quintessential Cuba sit empty, the tourists they once carried largely gone.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
ft.com | Ed Augustin
A swashbuckling history, vintage cars, Caribbean beaches and one of the safest destinations in the Americas: in theory, Cuba’s tourism...
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Ed Augustin
To say that Cuba has had a trying week would be an understatement. After a grid failure last Friday caused four days of nationwide blackouts and a Category One hurricane smashed into the eastern province of Guantanamo on Monday, killing seven, the lights are back on most of the time and things have steadied on the island. Nilza Valdés Núñez, sixty-one, from Guanabacoa, East Havana, feels a bit of a relief.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
clarin.com | Ed Augustin
La luz volvió el domingo por la noche en el barrio habanero de Lidia Núñez Gómez —la primera vez desde la mañana del viernes—, así que se apresuró a usar su cocina eléctrica para guardar las patas de pollo y la carne de cerdo congeladas que su hijo le había enviado desde Estados Unidos. La carne escasea, la luz estaba segura de que se cortaría de nuevo pronto y Núñez, de 81 años, necesitaba evitar que la comida se pudriera.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ed Augustin
El domingo por la noche regresó la luz en el barrio de La Habana donde vive Lidia Núñez Gómez -por primera vez desde el viernes por la mañana -, así que se apresuró a utilizar su cocina eléctrica para preparar los muslos de pollo y la carne de cerdo congelada que su hijo le había enviado desde Estados Unidos. La carne escaseaba, y pronto habría otro corte de electricidad por lo que Núñez Gómez, de 81 años, necesitaba evitar que los alimentos se pudrieran.
