WNA Globe

World News by Wild Rose

#Cuba ร—

Cuban man is 18th person to die in US ICE custody this year: Monitor

Rights group says believed suicide underscores need for more oversight amid Trump's mass deportation drive.

Cuba pardons 2,010 prisoners in โ€˜humanitarianโ€™ gesture amid US pressure

Cubaโ€™s government announced on Thursday that it was pardoning 2,010 prisoners as a โ€œhumanitarianโ€ gesture during Holy Week, after pledging in March to release dozens amid heightened US pressure on Havana. The major announcement comes days after US President Donald Trump eased a de facto oil blockade of Cuba by allowing a Russian tanker to deliver crude to the fuel-starved island. The Trump administration has called for change in communist-run Cubaโ€™s system of government and the US president has...