Standout relics include blood-stained uniforms of the fallen from the Santiago de Cuba Moncada Barracks attack ... located a few blocks east of Old Havana's main thoroughfare, Paseo de Marti.

Betting has been illegal on the communist island for the past 66 years, but "la bolita" has persisted, and even grown, as ...

EVERY day, as he has done for the past 20 years, Carlos makes the rounds collecting bets in central Havana for "la bolita" – a clandestine national lottery that provides a sliver of hope for Cubans ...

Robert Wallis "It is as though he still roamed the streets of Havana, with his corpulence, his broad shoulders," Enrique Cirules (above) writes in a study of Hemingway's time in Cuba. The country ...

The average salary in Cuba hovers around $42 per month ... of building a chain of hotel-casinos on Havana's Malecon waterfront, American journalist TAJ English wrote in his 2007 bestseller ...

Cuba was a gambler's haven until the practice ... of building a chain of hotel-casinos on Havana's Malecon waterfront, American journalist TAJ English wrote in his 2007 bestseller "Havana Nocturne." ...

HAVANA -- For Sonia Pérez, stepping into Havana’s Doña Alicia restaurant felt like entering a movie. Even as Cuba struggles ...

For Sonia Pérez, stepping into Havana’s Doña Alicia restaurant felt like entering a movie. Even as Cuba struggles with power ...

HAVANA (AP) — For Sonia Pérez, stepping into Havana’s Doña Alicia restaurant felt like entering a movie. Even as Cuba struggles with power outages and technological scarcity, this eatery has ...