Michael Voss

A recent ruling allows U.S. companies to provide Internet services to Cuba, despite the embargo. But Cuban officials say this is a direct threat to the Cuban leadership.

The leaders of several Latin American nations converged on Havana for a two day summit of the Bolivian Alliance for the Peoples of America. BBC’s Michael Voss joins us with a report on how this union is dealing with a global economic crisis.

President Obama has lifted restrictions on travel and remittances for Cuban-Americans who wish to visit family or send money to their kin in Cuba. The Takeaway talks to Michael Voss, BBC correspondent and Joshua Johnson a reporter and anchor with WLRN.

This hurricane season, Haiti has faced down four devastating storms in less than a month. Relief agencies are struggling to help thousands of flood victims, and hundreds of Haitians have died. Meanwhile, in South Florida, home to the largest Haitian expat community in the U.S., money and food has started pouring in.

Under new president Raúl Castro, Cuba is changing in small but ideologically-significant ways.