Rob Sequin | Havana Journal I am fortunate to know several people who attended the National Encounter of Cubans Residing in the United States that was recently held at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington DC. I have had a conversation with a few attendees and learned that overall it was a positive… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal On May 5, 2012 at the Arts Society of Kingston and Jose Acosta will be hosting an art event featuring beautiful art, Latin music and Cuban and Italian food. La Orquesta de Los Taino will be entertaining the crowd and if you have been to Cuban American artist Jose Acosta’s… Read More

(Original title: Former hard-line exiles return to Cuba to talk) By William Booth, Washington Post The setting was historic. The looming 18th-century Seminary of San Carlos in Old Havana. The attendance remarkable. A hall packed with professors, dissidents, clergy, bloggers, leftists, diplomats. The… Read More

On Saturday, February 11, 2012, the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies held a seminar sponsored by Taiwan Foundation for Democracy at Casa Bacardi/University of Miami in Coral Gables Florida. Dr. Jaime Suchlicki, Director, ICCAS and Ray H.W. Mou, Director General, Taipei Economic and… Read More

Rob Sequin, publisher HavanaJournal.com and President of Havana Journal Inc. First, a little background on me… I am a registered Republican from Massachusetts. I voted for Romney for Governor and I would have voted for him for Governor had he run for a second term. On Willard Milton “Mitt”… Read More

Title by Rob Sequin, publisher of HavanaJournal.com and article by Erika Bolstad of McClatchy Newspapers A U.S. House committee will investigate travel programs to Cuba offered by the Smithsonian Institution under a Obama administration initiative designed to expose Cubans to ordinary Americans. The… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal According to Juan O. Tamayo’s report in the The Miami Herald, Cuban Americans may be restricted to traveling to Cuba only once every three years if a rider is approved in the US spending bill making its way through Washington. As you saw in the title, I write that I… Read More

Article by Cameron Joseph of The Hill with commentary by Havana Journal publisher in bold below. Regarding my background, I am a registered Republican from Massachusetts and have lived here since 1985. I lived here while Mitt Romney was Governor. I voted for Mitt for Senator running against Ted Kennedy… Read More

Excerpts from Kim Geiger article in Los Angeles Times Asked by Miami Herald reporter Marc Caputo what he thinks of the “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy that allows Cubans who reach U.S. soil to stay, Cain was stumped. “The wet-foot, dry-foot policy?” Cain asked, as if he had never heard of it. The… Read More

By JUAN TAMAYO | Miami Herald Cuba alleged Monday that Radio/TV Martí is violating the country’s laws and may disrupt its cellular text-messaging system with a computerized system that can send up to 24,000 text messages a week to cell phones on the island. Developed for mass marketing campaigns,… Read More