The 85th edition of the Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star Game, set for Tuesday night at Target Field in Minnesota, will honor retiring New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter, set to retire at the end of the season. Fox Deportes Jose Tolentino discusses Jeter's historic career, as well as the rise of Yasiel Puig, with Latin Post.
José Abreu is one the rising young stars in Major League Baseball. The Cuban-born hitter is on pace to break multiple records that have stood for decades. Latin Post breaks down his incredible rookie season and compares it to other great MLB first-year campaigns.
Dust clouds from the Sahara have been floating over to the Caribbean for some time, but recent years have seen them push past to the UK and even into the mainland U.S. There is no severe health risk. But the clouds prevent rainfall and hurricanes from cooling the area and are known for trapping heat and causing hazy days.
Russia's president now heads to Argentina and Brazil on Latin America tour. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday visited on old Soviet ally when he met with Cuban leaders in Havana, according to The Associated Press report.
Gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Crist says that U.S. should end the trade embargo with Cuba. Nearly 55 years have passed since the U. S. imposed a trade embargo on Cuba, and rarely since then have any U.
A woman from South Florida and her travel partner are being detained in a Cuban jail on accusations of smuggling synthetic marijuana through the Havana airport on Saturday.
Known in Cuba as el bloqueo, the United States placed an embargo against Cuba on October 19, 1960, nearly two years after the Batista regime was deposed by the Cuban Revolution. Fifty years later, polls indicate that half of Cuban-Americans in Miami would change the United States' standing relations with Cuba.
Company leaders met with Cuban officials and citizens employed in tech. Cuba is the country with the lowest level of Internet access in the Western hemisphere, according to a report from Reuters.
On Friday, Google executives, including executive chairman Eric Schmidt, visited Yoani Sánchez, an award-winning blogger and the creator of 14ymedio, Cuba's first independently owned newspaper in five decades.
With the first round of the 2014 World Cup in progress, Latin Post.com brings soccer fans a list of the best first-round games ever played in knockout round World Cup history.
Guantánamo Bay is looking to hire substitute teachers. Guantánamo Bay is looking to hire substitute teachers. According to the Federal Government Jobs website, the government's Department of Defense is looking to hire a substitute teacher and pay them $50.
According to Florida International University's annual survey on United States relations with Cuba, a small majority of Cuban-Americans residents of Miami-Dade County opposes the embargo of the communist island.
"A mojito is one of Cuba's oldest cocktails — it comes from the African word mojo, which means to place a little spell." — The Havana Journal. As history has shown, a spell has indeed been cast.
Breaking into the Cuban world of percussion was especially difficult for Wendy Garcia of the Obiní Batá orchestra of women percussionists, who plays the drums in Old Havana, Cuba.
On Wednesday, Jose Ramon Cabañas, Havana, Cuba's representative in Washington, recommended that the United States government consider calls for rapprochement with the communist country.
Last week, a new website started by a Cuban dissident blogger began publishing, was hacked, and then banned. But now it's reportedly been unbanned as the Cuban internet, still far from modern or open, continues to make tiny steps toward opening up in terms of Cuban access, censorship and connectivity to the rest of the world.
