The clock struck nine o’clock when the cruise ship Adonia entered La Havana Bay. Dozens of people received with enthusiasm the first tourist boat coming to the island from Miami in more than 50 years.  The Cuban people welcomed the boat at its arrival.

Sanctions imposed by the United States against officials and ex-officials of the Venezuelan government may remain in place until 2019 if the White House and Senate reach an agreement to unblock the nomination of Roberta Jacobson as ambassador to Mexico.

Omar Everley Pérez, an economist at the University of Havana’s Centro de Estudios de la Economía Cubana, has been fired because of alleged ties with representatives of the U.S. government, with whom he is accused of sharing sensitive information about the school without official authorization.

The United States Federal Reserve is warning the Banco Internacional de Costa Rica (Bisca) that it is highly vulnerable to those who would use it for “heightened levels of money laundering.”

The United States recently announced that it is carefully evaluating the situation of human rights in Honduras and that accordingly with their conclusions, Congress will decide whether to keep monetarily funding the countries that compose the Central American northern triangle: Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

The first film by Mexican director Jonás Cuarón, starring Gael García Bernal, arrives this weekend in some Latin American theaters.

The winds of war of the United States blew with intensity in April, 1961, against Cuba. An American-backed counterrevolutionary insurgency, whose purpose was to destabilize the newly communist regime of the Caribbean island, was preparing to be launched from a Nicaraguan port aimed at the Cuban Bay Of Pigs.

The Cuban community of Miami Beach mostly rejected the possibility of opening a Cuban consulate there during a public hearing at City Hall. 

Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico demonstrates not only the outdated vision for the contemporary world, but also reveals a disturbing indication of what a sector of American society thinks about Latin America and its people.

With support from the United States, Mexico detained and denied refuge to 35,000 migrant children in 2015, according to Human Rights Watch.