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Travelers to Cuba will now be able to exchange dollars at hotels, banks and currency exchange centers at an official rate of 120 Cuban Pesos to the dollar.

Facing growing hardships, Cuba’s National Assembly has approved 75 new economic measures to stimulate the country’s struggling economy.

Only a month after John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, in February 1961, the new president asked his Secretary of State for recommendations on instituting a “full embargo” against Cuba...

In a substantive change in U.S. policy toward Cuba, the Biden administration announced that it will move to lift a series of economic, travel and migration restrictions imposed by its …

Judge Beth Bloom wrote that the cruise ship companies had engaged in “trafficking activities” by porting in Havana and bringing passengers to tour the city.  

The consulate has been effectively closed since September of 2017, but will be reactivated under the Biden administration.