Eight Men On Cuba's National Volleyball Team Are Being Held On Rape Allegations
Eight members of Cuba’s men’s national volleyball team—including the team’s captain—are currently being detained in Finland on charges of aggravated rape.
Chanel's Runway Show in Cuba Was... Complicated
It seems that outsiders love to fantasize Cuba as a romantic place that time forgot, a time capsule to the early ‘60s, and/or a snapshot from a scene from Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, as opposed to the realities of it: a place where 11 million people live off $20 a month and where food is historically scarce; a place…
The Kardashians Are Headed to Cuba
Just one day after a U.S. cruise ship touched a Havana port for the first time in 48 years, People reports that the Kardashians will be voyaging to the island to film their reality show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which began its 12th season on Sunday. Just think: While Cubans continued to experience…
Fidel Castro's Grandson Is Rumored to Be Walking in Chanel's Runway Show in Cuba Tonight
According to Fashionista, various Spanish language outlets are reporting that Tony Castro, grandson of Fidel, will walk in Chanel’s Cruise collection show in Cuba’s El Paseo Del Prado today at 6:30 p.m. EST. There is so much going on in that sentence!
Behold the Most Awkward Moment Of Barack Obama's Presidency
President Barack Obama is enjoying a historic trip to the nation of Cuba. We all had hopes and dreams about how this journey would go, but none of us could have imagined this.
Obama Arrives in Cuba, Bridges the Decades-Long Chasm Between Two Nations
On Sunday, March 20, 2016, President Barack Obama and his family landed in Havana, Cuba. He is the first American president to set foot on the island in 88 years.
Cuba 'Eliminates' Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
In Cuba, scientists have eliminated HIV transmission from mother-to-child, showing that an end to the HIV and Aids epidemic is fathomable.
Stella McCartney's Garden Party Had Guevara and Castro Impersonators
On Monday, Fashion designer Stella McCartney presented her 2016 resort collection at a Cuba-themed garden party in Nolita, Manhattan. Guests included big names like Cara Delevingne, Miranda Kerr, Liv Tyler, and—most noteworthy of all—two men posing as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Not present: anyone who’s suffered…
Half of Cuba's Airbnb Listings Are Controlled By Five People
Last week, Airbnb announced that they would be opening their digital doors to Cuba, allowing American tourists to book lodging from local hosts with over 1,000 listings. Great! But in Cuba, this new business model might just be a throwback to straight hustling.
Now We Can All Go to Cuba Without Having to Lie About It
Less than a month after President Obama restored full diplomatic relations with Cuba, his administration announced Thursday that they'll ease travel restrictions to the country for U.S. citizens. That means you'll no longer have to pretend you're going as part of a church group or for "professional research."
How Did a Cuban Spy Imprisoned in the US Impregnate His Wife in Cuba?
Short answer: Diplomacy.
US-Cuban Friendship Might Mean Prison for Assata Shakur
The United States and Cuba are friends again? Great. Friends that negotiate the extradition of Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard, a Black Panther who was framed for killing a cop in America and found asylum in Cuba? Not great.
Diana Nyad Has Just Completed Her Record Swim from Cuba to Florida
Diana Nyad has made landfall (hurricane humor, sorry) just moments ago, which means that the crowd gathered at Key West is right this moment cheering her for successfully hauling herself out of the briny deep.
Diana Nyad’s Latest Cuba-to-Florida Swim Is Going Well (So Far)
After failing last year (and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that…) to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to Florida, crawl exhausted onto the beaches at Key West, and enjoy a mojito Fidel Castro made and bottled in a small, shark-proof thermos, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad was, as of…
Marco Rubio Betrays His BFF Jay-Z
Marco Rubio is a riddle wrapped in an enigma. JK, he's a politics bro who listens to top 40 rap, which apparently makes him fascinating to Republicans. The dude is a self-proclaimed hip-hop head, and as the Republican Party's shining example of a Latino conservative, Rubio has been heralded as the GOP's poster boy.…
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Blasted For Culturally-Ignorant Havana Vacation
Bey and Jay are currently celebrating their fifth anniversary eating, wearing tribal-printed DVF (her), smoking cigars (him), and posing with schoolchildren in Old Havana. They also brought their moms Tina and Gloria, as well as some bodyguards, just like you or I would do on our anniversary vacations, right?
Diana Nyad Is Still an Exceptional Badass
In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is helped to shore after swimming a short distance from a support boat Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, in Key West, Fla. Nyad failed in a fourth attempt to complete a swim across the Florida Straits from Cuba to the Florida Keys. The…
Diana Nyad Is Swimming from Florida to Cuba While the Rest of the Country Enjoys Its Pancakes
Diana Nyad, the 62-year-old distance swimmer with a nagging desire to be the first person ever to swim successfully from Cuba to Florida, set off Saturday on her 103-mile journey through the shark- and jellyfish-infested bathwater that separates her from the record books. Though she'd planned on beginning her swim…
Michele Bachmann, Visionary, Calls For English To Be Declared Official Language of America
Speaking to a crowd in South Florida and demonstrating the tact and progressive thinking for which she's now universally acclaimed, Midwestern embarrassment Michele Bachmann told a crowd in the heavily Spanish speaking neck of the woods that illegal immigrants should be deported, babies born in the US shouldn't…
