One of the things we love the most about being Latina is being able to claim ties with a vast and varied group of people. Of course, that’s only cool once we kind of gloss over some of the...

Dashiell Torralba, a former girlfriend of Fidel Castro’s son Antonio, is all over the internet this week for starring in an episode of the internet porn classic, “Bang Bros.” (Don’t act like you don’t know what it is.) The...

Hottie-pants Eva Mendes recalls her frugal Cuban upbringing in September’s Marie Claire. She tells the mag; I was raised by parents who didn’t have much. We didn’t use whole pieces of paper towel. We shared, or used rags. Mom...

CNN is running this video on-air featuring a giant egg that shot out of some chicken’s ass in Cuba recently. The Cuban National Information Agency claims it’s the “world’s largest egg.” (We guess they don’t see many ostriches over...

The leaked trailer for Che El Argentino just landed in our inbox. You’ve never known how badly you want to hump Benicio Del Toro until you hear him speak Argentinean. (Provided you’re not actually Argentinean.) Could the leak have...

Cuba is all flustered over their suspicions that the United States is using undergoing an “escalation of provocative actions.” Like building an army of anti-Communist robots. With laser beams: Among the activities denounced by the foreign ministry are: Holding...

The U.S. government is not exactly toasting Cuba Libres over news that the European Union has decided to lift diplomatic sanctions: “We’re disappointed,” said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the National Security Council. “We think the Castros need to take...

‘Member little Elian Gonzales the adorable Cuban boy purportedly rescued by dolphins in the middle of ocean after his mother died trying to get him to America? He was forced to return to his father in Cuba eight years...

In an article we saw cited on Gawker, because we’re secret corporate whores, Che Guevara’s children share that they’re pretty fed up with the appropriation of their father’s image by capitalist imperialist swine: Aleida Guevara, the eldest of Guevara’s...

Raul Castro, who recently took over Cuba after big brother Fidel decided to inch a little closer to the grim reaper’s tentative grasp, has made some so-called sweeping changes on the island. Well, okay, he shipped in some Chinese...

Gloria and Emilio Estefan took some time to gloat about their marriage on “The View” and promote Emilio’s documentary 90 Millas. We like them because they remind us of tackier, richer versions of our mom and dad. We would...

Following protests staged by the wives of jailed dissidents, a group of women who call themselves the “Ladies in White” because “Super Friends” was already taken, Cuba has accused the U.S. of using the women to “subvert the Cuban...

Cubans are now allowed to own their very own crumbling, roach-infested, un-air-conditioned hellholes instead of just renting them from the government. And, what fun! They can even sell them! Back to the government: The housing decree spells out rules...

Guess what? Turns out that, unlike Iran, Cuba is actually pretty gay. And the BBC would like to you to know that there’s a Castro in Cuba who cares about GLBT issues and would like to see radical changes...

Cubans are finally allowed to own cell phones. Just as soon as they figure out how to pay for one on an average income of $20 a month. [The New York Times] Did you know John Cusack had a...

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque addressed a gathering of approximately 100 Cubans from overseas to discuss easing travel restrictions for Cuban nationals: The event was a chance to exchange views and to “improve co-ordination and communication” among us,...

Proving that, while it may last five decades, nothing bad lasts forever, President Raul Castro has lifted restrictions on certain electronic items Cubans were not previously allowed to own: “Based on the improved availability of electricity the government at...

A rare video of students publicly protesting to the Cuban Parliamentary President at the University of Cuba has made it off the island and into the hands of western media. The information was captured and transmitted by an underground...

Hugo Chavez, who seems to have a lot of free time for the ruler of a nation, spoke with Cuba’s new president in five decades, Raul Castro, on the phone during his weekly radio show: Chavez and Raul Castro...

Cuban writer Antonio Orlando Rodriguez is the latest recipient of Spain’s Alfaguara Award for literature for his novel Chiquita: The award, which includes a prize of $175,000, is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language. A total...

In a move that surprises no one, the Cuban National Assembly officially named Raul Castro, younger brother of Fidel and acting president for the past year and a half, as president of Cuba yesterday. “We have to make our...

At the recent Democratic debate in Austin, Texas, journalist Jorge Ramos (swooooon!) asked audacious presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton how they felt Fidel Castro’s resignation would affect U.S. policy towards Cuba. And they were like, “Horny.” JK!...

Cuban’s Vice-President, former medical student Carlos Lage, is set to become Cuba’s next big thing, besides the next premiere destination for the Cancun crowd during Spring Break: He is more of a party guy than a state police guy...

Yesterday Fidel Castro up and quit us like some kind of dead beat daddy with a new hooker in town and the ensuing aftermath spurred the startling realization that no one in America or Cuba really gives a shit...

The New York Times is the 27th news outlet today to let us know that the world’s reaction to Fidel Castro’s resignation is “muted” (read: non-existent.) Even in Havana. The consensus from dissidents, loyal Fidelistas and everyone in between...

As noted earlier, no one’s really sure what it means that Fidel Castro officially resigned from the office of president of Cuba this morning. It’s a little underwhelming because he’s been out of commission for the most part since...

Fidel Castro sent a letter to El Granma published on the internet this morning in which he says: I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander-in-chief. After...

The Cuban government, under the leadership of Raul Castro, has released four dissidents: reporters Jose Ramon and Alejandro Gonzalez, Omar Pernet and trade unionist Pedro Alvarez. The four arrived in Madrid, with three more dissidents expected to be flown...

P*r*z H*lt*n is reporting that this pic was taken in Barack Obama’s Houston campaign headquarters. He is soooo hip, that Barry Hussein. Admittedly the conservative backlash is kind of making us wanna vote for Nader. Fill In The Blank...

Earlier this year, Fidel Castro published for the first time in the United States an autobiography interview entitled, Fidel Castro: My Life co-authored by interviewer Ignacio Ramonet. After finally making it through the many pornographic comic books that surround...

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has called on several South American and Caribbean countries to band together against the U.S. and the evils of capitalism: Mr Chavez has some key allies in his fight against capitalism, globalisation and the US....

Seven members of the Spanish Ballet of Cuba have defected, with four of the troupe members having already made their way into the United States via Mexico. Aw, but everything was all literate and shit over in Cuba: They...

Fidel Castro has heiled hailed Cuban voters, congratulating them on the near 95% turnout for this year’s parliamentary elections: Although the final figure is not clear, officials said turnout had reached 95% with an hour of voting time remaining...

Cuban spies have expanded their scope beyond the U.S. and Latin America to Iran, Turkey, India and Pakistan. So feisty for such a tiny island: ”We’ve seen a change in how they use ambassador-spies,” [Chris] Simmons [a former counterintelligence...

Cuban leader and tracksuit enthusiast Fidel Castro met with Brazilian President President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, proving he is both 1) alive and 2) not dead. What did the two talk about? Who cares! What was Fidel wearing...

A wealthy Florida man donned his gayest apparel and acted as Santa Claus for Cuban children last Sunday. One man in red do not three kings make, chief: Wearing a Santa suit and a wide grin, a wealthy Florida...

In Cuba, divorces are like new friends American tourists make in Havana: quick and easy. But getting your ex to move out might prove a bit difficult thanks to the island’s property laws and housing shortage: Estranged Cuban couples...

This past Friday, while most of you were probably, ironically, drinking Cuba Libres until you soiled your Hugo Chavez hotpants and woke up covered in body oil, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was in Cuba talking petroleum:...

We like tamales as much as the next person, but we never knew they were associated with Christmas, because, in the beautiful serape of Latin American culture, we are on a totally different thread. So, we decided to offer...

On the eve of the U.S. release of his kind-of-sort-of-anticipated-by-us autobiography, Fidel Castro: My Life, El Comandante has pulled off the ultimate PR coup by announcing that he may die. The world has lived on speculative crumbs [Ed. Note:...

It’s been quite a while since we last heard from Fidel Castro, but he’s making up for lost time by sending us a new autobiography just in time for Superbowl Sunday. And it’s full of useful tips like this:...

TV star and humorist Carlos Otero defected to the U.S. with his family after he had traveled to Canada to produce a show: Otero, 49, asked for political asylum on Monday at the U.S. border with Canada, where he...

Univision’s Spanish-language Republican debate this past weekend touched upon two of our favorite, most touchable world leaders: Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. After all, with the debates being held in Miami, it was inevitable that the two would come...

Eight Cuban performers decided to trade in their juggling pins for cell phones before vanishing in Mexico, presumably in order to defect to the United States. Shazam, compay!: The six men and two women, the entire juggling and high-flying...

A group of policemen wearing plain clothes kicked their way into a Cuban church to beat the shit out of a group of political dissidents that were getting ready to participate in mass. Ay Dios Mío! Jose Conrado Rodriguez,...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named Cuba as the only Latin American or Caribbean country that complies with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of Education for Everybody. Well Oh My Gravy (OMG)!: The educational...

Two men from South Florida are charged with smuggling 35 Cubans from Camaguey to Palm Beach after one of the Cubans, 39-year-old Carlos Alberto Pons-Arias, drowned during the journey: On Thursday night, federal immigration agents arrested two South Florida...

Cuban rafters who find themselves in Mexican waters are discovering that, unlike with Mexican police officers, paying Mexican lawyers a lot of money won’t help problems go away faster: According to one of the Cubans who helps rafters in...

Cuban dissident Oscar Biscet is one of eight individuals set to receive a Medal of Freedom today from President George Bush. Because Cuba’s version of a Presidential Medal of Freedom is an all-expenses paid stay in a luxury suite...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has been suffering from a recent bout with bronchitis, forcing him to bow out of his epic weekly radio program, “Aló Presidente.” This is almost as bad as the time we found, the hard way,...