Joanne Chesimard, Fugitive Living in Cuba, Named to FBI ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ List By Steven Nelson US News and World Report Informers stand to gain $2M in the unlikely event Chesimard, convicted of murdering a cop 40 years ago, is caught Forty years ago today, Joanne Chesimard allegedly… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal I am an anti-Embargo Republican from Massachusetts. The Embargo is anti-American since it limits OUR freedom of trade and travel. It is a 50+ year old failed “Plan A” to get rid of the Castro brothers and will not work next year or the year after that. Mauricio… Read More

EGL, Inc. Settles Potential Civil Liability for Alleged Violations of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations and the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations EGL, Inc. now part of the CEVA Logistics group of companies, EGL Houston, TX, has agreed to pay $139,650 to settle potential civil liability… Read More

This is a timely topic. A distinguished congressional delegation led by Senator Patrick Leahy has just returned from Cuba, and a number of its members have recommended that Cuba be removed from the U.S. State Department’s list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Concurrently, the Boston Globe reported… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal Recently, the well known pro-Embargo Cuban-American Jaime Suchlicki posted his reasons against lifting the US Embargo on Cuba. I felt the need to comment on his statements. My comments are in bold below. TRADE WITH CUBA All trade with Cuba is done with state owned businesses.… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal Today, most citizens in Cuba, Cuban Americans and Cuba watchers around the world are shocked and/or thrilled to learn that not only has President Raul Castro announced his future retirement but that he has selected a 52 year old, non-Castro to be his First Vice President.… Read More

Today the Cuba Study Group released a whitepaper titled: “Restoring Executive Authority Over U.S. Policy Toward Cuba,” calling on the U.S. Government to de-codify the Cuban embargo via the repeal of Helms-Burton and related statutory provisions that deny the United States the flexibility to respond… Read More

Marc Frank | Reuters Cuba’s best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, says she plans to make good use of “my victory” when she leaves on an 80-day-tour of more than a dozen countries on Sunday. Sanchez, under Cuba’s sweeping migration reform that went into effect this year,… Read More

CUBA DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE USAID’s Program Is Improved, but State Could Better Monitor Its Implementing Partners Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by US Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-285. Why GAO Did This Study Since 1996, Congress has appropriated $205 million to USAID… Read More

The Havana Journal supports the efforts of the Latin America Working Group to get Cuba removed from the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Whether you are pro-Embargo or anti-Embargo, you can probably agree that having Cuba on this list, makes the list less meaningful. On March 1st, 1982, Cuba was… Read More