Following a rare meeting between Cuban President Raúl Castro and Roman Catholic Church leaders, reports revealed that the Cuban government agreed to transfer political prisoners to jails closer to their hometowns and to move sick prisoners to hospitals.

Even by Raúl Castro's admission, worker productivity under Cuba's repressive labor system is abysmal.

An AS/COA panel moved the Cuba-policy conversation beyond talk on the embargo, looking into the actual conditions and potential for reform inside different sectors. Read a summary.

With the recent death of a Cuban hunger striker and harassment of the Ladies in White dissident group in Havana, U.S. President Barack Obama criticized human rights conditions on the island. His March 24 statement came ahead of a large Miami-based rally supporting dissidents.

Las month Cuba detained a USAID contractor for passing out laptops. It's time for the United States to send over a whole lot more, writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini for Foreign Policy.

Before the United States agrees to lift more sanctions toward Cuba, Havana must allow for greater political and economic freedoms.

A policy update in the Fall 2009 issue of Americas Quarterly examines health care systems in Cuba, Chile, Colombia, and Costa Rica.