Island has weathered a US oil embargo since January and is enduring one of its worst economic crises.
US report says the beleaguered government in Havana is the 'connective tissue' of a global 'anti-American coalition'.
The United States has accused China of operating three intelligence-gathering facilities in Cuba and sharply expanding its personnel on the island, portraying Havana as a strategic platform for Beijing to monitor American military activity. A State Department report released on Monday said China maintained a “persistent intelligence-gathering presence” in Cuba, whose location gives Beijing potential access to electronic communications, military installations and maritime activity in the...
Latin America analyst Brian Winter argues that Trump sees Venezuela as a foreign policy success… and Cuba may be next.
He was arrested in 2021 during Cuba's largest anti-government protests in decades and spent five years in prison.
Otero Alcantara is part of the San Isidro Movement, which has long been the target of Cuban repression.
Prominent Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara flew to exile on Saturday in the United States after serving a five-year sentence on the island, as Washington urged Havana to release more than 700 political prisoners. Otero Alcantara, designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2022 for insulting national symbols, contempt and disturbing the public order. He landed in Miami, the capital of the Cuban diaspora, after a short...
Cuba suffers second nationwide blackout in five days
US President Donald Trump has placed the Caribbean island under a de facto oil blockade, straining its power grid.
Diplomatic tensions between Washington and Havana have widened in recent months.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced the “ruthless” US embargo against the communist island during a UN General Assembly debate on Tuesday that took place despite diplomatic pressure by Washington to prevent it. “The government of the United States is carrying out against Cuba a multi-dimensional, non-conventional warfare that has already lasted for almost seven decades now and has become ever more cruel and more ruthless during the last seven months,” Rodriguez told the body,...
A top Cuban official has accused the US of issuing 'constant threats' and attempting to scuttle a UN debate.