Just when you thought AOCs throne atop the pinnacle was unreachable and her crown secureNew Orleanss Democrat Mayor LaToya Cantrell (or her scriptwriter) lunges for the royal scepter.

Cuba economic reforms hurting the poor, experts warn By Portia Siegelbaum December 16, 2013 / 12:10 PM EST / CBS News ...

In general, since 2009, the Cuban economy has been growing very modestly from 1.4% in that year, 2.4% in 2010 and 2.8% in 2011 for an annual average up until 2012 of 2,4%.

Cuba's Brave New Economic World. ... The government announced plans Monday to lay off 500,000 state employees over six months and spur development of non-state jobs in their place, ...

The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces control much of the island’s economy through a conglomerate known as GAESA.

Cuba’s minister of the economy, Alejandro Gil, recently said the economy grew 1.8% last year, which Mesa Lago said “is very difficult to believe.” Private sector is “another world” ...

A day after Cuban media revealed that a Communist Party summit had approved sweeping economic changes and elected a new leadership — without saying what the changes were or who is now in ...

A recent report from the think tank Cuba Siglo 21 paints a grim picture of a sector in freefall, despite the government pouring over $24 billion into tourism development over the last 15 years ...

HAVANA – New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell wants to see how Cuban history has “produced unique opportunities and challenges” in the areas of economic development, trade, health care and ...

Some 305,000 Cubans have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during the past year, most of them asking for asylum. Here is what life is like for the people left behind.