A majority of Florida’s Cuban-Americans, including many former hard-liners, have come to oppose a U.S. embargo strategy that has proved futile over the decades. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries March 11, 2009 Bill Puts Brakes on Mexican Trucks March 11, 2009 Sanford and ‘Some’ M...

Embargo Zone is a site (blog) clearinghouse that I set up due to the fun time we all had this week reading Mike’s go to hell and I mean you rant. I also read CenterNetworks follow up and the very groovy eco friendly RWW spin on the topic. Now I know there are a ton of sites like PR Newswire, B...

[UPDATE below.] Yesterday, the one-man-band of a tech blogger, Michael Arrington, let loose with yet another outrageously indignant diatribe–this time that he and his TechCrunch site would forthwith break all news embargoes. Not content with the traffic generated last week by his obviously fak...

This morning I sat down at the computer to write the story about Chegg's funding announcement but I see it was already posted ahead of the embargoed time by Techcrunch and VentureBeat. No idea who posted first as the times on RSS feeds seem to always use different time zones. Perhaps another source ...

Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, New York Auto Show, Chrysler, LLC. This week we attended media events put on by Ford and General Motors called "backgrounders" that give select journalists a preview of what will be shown at the upcoming 2009 Detroit Auto Show. We sign...

At an extraordinary summit in Cuba this week, leaders of all countries in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) called on President-elect Barack Obama to lift America’s nearly 50-year embargo against their host country. As we gather today in Cuba, the economic, commercial and financial embargo imp...

LOS PALACIOS, Cuba -- A pair of devastating storms have prompted new calls for the United States to end its long isolation of Cuba, including from hard-line exile groups that are pushing for the Bush administration to loosen restrictions they had long favored....

LOS PALACIOS, Cuba -- A pair of devastating storms have prompted new calls for the United States to end its long isolation of Cuba, including from hard-line exile groups that are pushing for the Bush administration to loosen restrictions they had long favored....

Filed under: International markets, Deals, Management, Anheuser-Busch Cos (BUD) According to The New York Times' DealBook blog, InBev has a significant partnership with Cuba to produce Bucanero beer, the second-largest player in the communist country's market. In the the beer world, this deal is not...

In his May 31 op-ed, "Hard-Line Lunacy on Cuba," Eugene Robinson wrote, "For nearly five decades, the United States has pursued a policy toward Cuba that could be described as incredibly stupid" and one that fits the definition for insanity. He implied that the U.S. government can extend an olive br...