CubaNews

WHO WE ARE

	LARRY LUXNER is editor and publisher of CubaNews. Born and raised in South Florida and based in Washington since 1995, Larry assumed ownership of CubaNews in 2002 and is responsible for the newsletter's overall content. During his career as a freelance journalist, he's reported from every country in Latin America and the Caribbean - and has made 15 trips to Cuba. Larry also runs an Internet-based stock photo agency and takes most of the pictures that appear in CubaNews.
	ANA RADELAT is our Washington correspondent. A Guantánamo native who left the island in 1954, Ana has covered the State Department, Congress, OFAC and other government agencies for CubaNews since the newsletter's inception in 1993, reporting on issues that have a direct effect on U.S. relations with Cuba. In the past, Ana was also the editor of CubaInfo, a publication of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
	ARMANDO H. PORTELA, our cartographer, has a Ph.D. in geography from the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 1991, he left his native Cuba and settled in Miami, where he works as a copy editor at El Nuevo Herald. Armando has been preparing detailed maps for CubaNews since the beginning; he also covers the sugar industry, infrastructure, commodities, environmental issues and Cuban demographic trends.
	DOMINGO AMUCHASTEGUI, our Miami-based political analyst, is a former Cuban government intelligence official who defected in 1994. Domingo writes frequently on subjects ranging from South Florida's Cuban exile community to the inner workings of the Cuban Communist Party and Fidel Castro's relations with Africa and the Middle East.
	HELEN J. SIMON is a Vermont-based journalist with over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor. Helen, who's fluent in Spanish, grew up in Puerto Rico, where she worked for the Associated Press and the San Juan Star. Helen was also a staff reporter at the Daily Journal in Caracas, Venezuela, and later managing editor of Economist Intelligence Unit's Business Latin America. She writes on humanitarian and trade issues for CubaNews.
	VITO ECHEVARRIA, our New York correspondent, began his love affair with Cuba in 1996, when he went there to cover the island's emerging biotechnology sector for Chile's AméricaEconomía magazine. Vito writes frequently on biotech as well as Cuban tourism, e-commerce and the culture scene; he's also a stringer for Miami-based Hispanic magazine and other publications.