August 31, 2009 New Mexico Independent
	Richardson’s normalization plan for Cuba rolled out on trade mission -- Gov. Bill Richardson’s trip to Cuba last week was ostensibly a trade mission on behalf of New Mexico, but he ended the trip with a big chunk of analysis about how to normalize relations with that small island nation a stone’s throw from Miami, Florida.
August 03, 2009 Common Dreams
	US Activists Challenge Obama on Cuba -- During last year's presidential campaign, Barack Obama said he was willing to sit down with Cuban leaders without preconditions. Obama, however, has been slow to implement any significant policy shift towards Cuba since taking office. This week two groups of Americans, over 250 people in all, are traveling to Cuba to challenge the travel restrictions and protest the slow pace of change.
July 26, 2009 Commons Dreams
	End an Irrelevant Era: Lift the Cuba Travel Ban -- The cold war is long dead, yet the United States still enforces a relic of that cold war with an economic embargo against Cuba. With a new administration in the White House ushering in a era of renewed diplomacy and international cooperation, isn’t it about time for the U.S. to do what most other countries around the world have done and normalize relations with its largest Caribbean neighbor?
June 25, 2009 People's Weekly World Newspaper
	50 years of Cuban Agrarian Reform: Overcoming challenges to feed the people -- Agrarian reform Cuban style: organic and decentralized
June 03, 2009 The Associated Press
	OAS Votes to Readmit Cuba After 47 Years -- The Organization of American States voted by acclamation on Wednesday to revoke the 1962 measure suspending communist Cuba, overturning a landmark of the Cold War in the hemisphere.
May 04, 2009 Cuban News Agency
	US State Department bans Songwriter Silvio Rodriguez from Visiting the United States -- The US Department of State, headed by Hillary Clinton, banned renowned Cuban songwriter and singer Silvio Rodriguez from travelling to the United States, where he had been invited to an homage gala for the 90th birthday of legendary US musician Pete Seeger.
April 26, 2009 The San Francisco Chronicle
	US groups hope Obama to allow more travel to Cuba -- Some Americans are eagerly awaiting the moment when they can make legal trips to Cuba despite the U.S. trade and travel embargo — and all it would take is a stroke of President Barack Obama's pen.
April 22, 2009 The Guardian
	Response: Cubans have the right to reject western consumerism -- The islanders are better off than many believe, and the regime can cope with closer US links, says Helen Yaffe
April 18, 2009 The Los Angeles Times
	Obama calls for 'new beginning' with Cuba -- The president signals hope for an end to Cold War acrimony, welcoming Havana's unprecedented gesture a day earlier.
April 16, 2009 The Miami Herald
	OAS chief calls for Cuba's reinstatement -- Cuba should be reincorporated to the Organization of American States as the first step to its path to democracy, the hemispheric organization's secretary general said Thursday on the eve of the Fifth Summit of the Americas.
April 16, 2009 CNN
	Commentary: Let's end our hypocrisy on Cuba -- Roland Martin says the U.S. has a double standard, applying tough restrictions to Cuba but not to China.
April 13, 2009 NEWS FROM CONGRESSMAN SAM FARR
	Farr to Deliver Cuba Letter to Obama -- Congressman Sam Farr (D-Calif.) will deliver a letter to President Obama later this week that outlines a 10-step plan to normalize relations with Cuba. Forty-six Members of Congress signed the letter.
April 13, 2009 The New York Times
	Obama Opens Door to Cuba, but Only a Crack -- In abandoning longstanding restrictions on the ability of Cuban-Americans to visit and send money to family members on the island, President Obama demonstrated Monday that he was willing to open the door toward greater engagement with Cuba — but at this point, only a crack.
April 13, 2009 The Wall Street Journal
	Obama to Discuss U.S. Plan For Engagement With Cuba -- President Barack Obama plans to tell Latin American leaders later this week that the U.S. is willing to discuss how to improve relations with Havana, but wants Cuba to take steps toward democracy before it is reintegrated into the Western hemisphere's economic and political institutions.
April 09, 2009 The Wall Street Journal
	Obama To Seek 'New Beginning' With Latin America At Summit -- U.S. President Barack Obama will seek to establish a "new beginning" in hemispheric relations when he attends the Summit of the Americas next week.
April 08, 2009 CNN
	It's time to talk to Cuba! -- For the first time in nearly 50 years, relations between the two nations (Cuba and the US), which have a history steeped in tension, have seemed to ease a bit.
April 02, 2009 NY Daily News
	At last, sane policy on travel to Cuba -- It took nearly 50 years. But this week new bipartisan legislation was introduced in the Senate and the House to revamp the obsolete U.S-Cuba policy and lift the long-standing travel embargo.
April 01, 2009 Los Angeles Times
	Ban on travel to Cuba may be lifted -- A bipartisan group of senators says Congress is ready to pass legislation to allow all Americans to visit Cuba. Supporters say the move would create thousands of jobs.
March 30, 2009 The Washington Post
	Momentum Grows for Relaxing Cuba Policy -- Roughly a year after Fidel Castro stepped aside and handed much of the responsibility for leading Cuba to his brother Raúl, there is new momentum in Washington for eliminating the ban on most U.S. travel to the island nation and for reexamining the severe limitations on U.S.-Cuban economic exchanges.
March 22, 2009 Miami Herald
	Federal ruling offers new hope for Cuba-trip travel agents -- A state law approved last year aimed at increasing regulation over travel agencies selling trips to Cuba was dealt another blow by the Justice Department.
March 21, 2009 Miami Herald/Reuters
	U.S. rice growers see Obama loosening Cuba embargo -- U.S. rice growers expect President Barack Obama to further ease Washington's trade sanctions against Cuba this year and say this could lift U.S. rice sales to the island to at least 200,000 tonnes annually.
March 19, 2009 BBC News
	Cuba neighbours to restore ties -- Both El Salvador and Costa Rica have said they will re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba.
March 09, 2009 US News and World Report
	Why Cuba's Dreams of Major Oil Discoveries Might Come True -- There is a place tantalizingly close to American shores that—but for reasons of politics and foreign policy—could emerge as a welcome new source of oil for U.S. consumers. That surprising potential entrant onto the world energy stage is Cuba. The island nation, says Jorge Piñon, a leading expert on Cuba's energy at the University of Miami, "can certainly become a major producer of oil."
February 25, 2009 The Miami Herald
	House passes bill easing Cuba travel restrictions -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a huge spending bill Wednesday that tweaked U.S-Cuba policy, making it easier for Cuban-Americans to get away with illegally traveling to the communist country.
September 18, 2008 The Economist
	Bloodied But Unbowed -- Desperate for international aid, hurricane-torn Cuba turns down any relief from its old foe, the United States
July 03, 2008 Pastors for Peace
	Homeland Security Agents Seize 32 Computers Bound for Cuba at Texas-Mexico Border -- Federal agents seized 32 computers from Pastors for Peace as they attempted to cross the Pharr International Bridge early this morning at the US-Mexico border.
June 17, 2008 Reuters
	Congress panel votes to loosen Cuba travel rules -- People living in the United States could travel to Cuba more often and visit a broader list of family members under legislation approved by a congressional panel on Tuesday.
June 04, 2008 CBS News
	Cuba's Urban Agrarians Flourish -- "Buy local. Eat seasonal. Eat organic." All now commonplace admonitions in the United States. But while none of these slogans are household words in Cuba, 70 percent of the vegetables and herbs grown on the island today are organic and the urban gardens where they are raised are usually within walking distance of those who will consume them. So in one blow Cuba reduced the use of fossil fuels in the production and transportation of food. And they began doing this nearly 20 years ago.
May 13, 2008 IPS
	CUBA: ‘Green’ Farming Techniques to Boost Production -- POZO REDONDO, Cuba, May 13 (IPS) - The application of agroecological techniques and the salvaging of traditional farming methods have revolutionised food production in rural areas along the southern edge of the Cuban capital.
April 25, 2008 ACN Cuban News Agency
	Nancy Pelosi Says US Blockade of Cuba Should be Lifted -- Havana, April 25 (acn) The speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said the US economic blockade of Cuba “has failed and should be lifted.”