A court in Nairobi, Kenya, ruled against local doctors Wednesday suing the government for importing 100 doctors from Cuba to take jobs that medical professionals in the country say rightfully belong to Kenyan citizens.
The looming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Tuesday has the potential to open up global tourism and foreign investment to North Korea, with little prospect of any profits reaching the North Korean people.
The rightful owners of two of Cuba’s largest ports, stolen from their families by the communist Cuban revolution, launched a campaign this week in conjunction with human rights organizations to discourage American tourism in the island nation.
The State Department confirmed on Wednesday that numerous employees in China are receiving “ongoing” medical evaluations after a U.S. citizen at the American consulate in Guangzhou was diagnosed with a brain injury in an incident that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described as “entirely consistent” with injuries in Havana, Cuba.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt met with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the successor to Raul Castro, on Monday to discuss Internet infrastructure on the communist island.
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) enjoyed a “friendly meeting” with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Monday, praising his “fluent” understanding of internet issues as an engineer. The meeting was the first with an American government guest since taking office for Díaz-Canel, who remains subordinate to the country’s leader, dictator Raúl Castro.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Americans Wednesday not to “politicize” the revelation that a U.S. diplomat had suffered a mild traumatic brain injury after hearing shrill noises in Guangzhou, China – an incident that recalled the injury of two dozen diplomats in Havana, Cuba, after hearing shrill noises.
The U.S. embassy to China issued a health alert on Wednesday to all Americans living in the country after a U.S. citizen working at the consulate in Guangzhou reported symptoms disturbingly similar to the “sonic attack” victims at the U.S. embassy in Cuba in 2016.
A pilot who claims to have flown the doomed Boeing 737-200 that crashed in Havana, Cuba, Friday, gave the Mexican newspaper Milenio copies of documents detailing the egregious safety violations he regularly alerted his superiors to while working for the company.
Emerging reports say a Boeing 737 plane crashed shortly after taking off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba. The Cubana aircraft, carrying 107 passengers, went down near a high school in the Boyeros neighborhood at 12.30 pm EST.
North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun condemned the United States on Wednesday for using media to promote freedom of expression and thought, defending the communist regime of Cuba for using a United Nations platform to demand the end of radio and television broadcasts the regime cannot control.
The government of Cuba released Daniel Llorente, an independent dissident, from a notorious mental hospital where he was detained for more than a year after being diagnosed with “believing in God.” Llorente was arrested after interrupting the 2017 May Day parade in Havana, waving an American flag and demanding freedom for Cuba.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Wednesday that Venezuelan mothers will receive a 1.5 million bolívar deposit in their bank accounts, a “bonus” to celebrate Mother’s Day in the socialist Latin American country.
President Donald Trump’s announcement Tuesday that the U.S. is leaving the Iran deal marks the end of what his predecessor, Barack Obama, considered his main foreign policy legacy.
The Pentagon honored an Obama administration-era agreement to repatriate an al-Qaeda-linked jihadi held at the Guantánamo Bay U.S. prison to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, marking the first such transfer under U.S. President Donald Trump who pledged to “load” the detention center “up with some bad dudes.”
Cuban authorities arrested Eliécer Llorente, the teenaged son of dissident Daniel Llorente, to prevent him from repeating the protest act that his father performed a year ago Tuesday: running ahead of the communist International Workers’ Day parade waving a U.S. flag in front of Raúl Castro.
The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) and the nation’s National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU) both issued statements this week protesting the African government’s plan to import 200 doctors from Cuba, taking jobs that would go to domestic Ugandan doctors and enriching the communist Castro regime.
Protestors in Nicaragua continued to demand the resignation of leader Daniel Ortega on Tuesday, amid anger over welfare reforms and fears that the country is slowing becoming a socialist dictatorship.
Pope Francis told Cuban young people to be “good patriots” and love their homeland in a video message Saturday sent to participants at a youth ministry conference in Havana.
Daniel Llorente, a Cuban dissident arrested last May 1 for waving an American flag in front of the communist nation’s May Day procession, remains institutionalized at a mental ward despite not being treated for any disease or charged with a crime.
Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin of China and Russia, respectively, reached out Thursday to the newly appointed head of Cuba’s National Assembly, Miguel Díaz-Canel, congratulating him on acquiring the title of “president.”
Contents: Cuba’s new president Miguel Díaz-Canel makes delusional promise to continue Socialist revolution; The Socialist delusion in Cuba; Cuba’s faltering economy and the dual currency problem
In his debut speech as the “President” of Cuba on Thursday, Miguel Díaz-Canel, billed as Raúl Castro’s hand-picked successor, made abundantly clear that Castro would continue to govern the country, telling the National Assembly that Castro “will preside over all major decisions for the present and future of the nation.”
President Donald Trump promised his administration would continue to be “very tough” of the communist regime of Cuba and its Venezuelan proxy in an exclusive Spanish-language interview with Univisión during his visit to Hialeah, Florida, on Monday.
International news outlets were abuzz Tuesday with the news that the Cuban General Assembly, the nation’s legislature, will vote a new president in to replace Raúl Castro, leaving the head of state running only the Communist Party.
Syria’s Ministry of Expatriates and Foreign Affairs vehemently protested targeted airstrikes against Assad regime scientific research centers in Damascus early Saturday morning local time in response to alleged chemical attacks by the regime, blaming them on “western arrogance and hegemony.”
Estimated thousands of members of the Venezuelan exile community in Peru marched on the streets of Lima Thursday night to demand that the Summit of the Americas, which the city is currently hosting, address the socialist-driven humanitarian crisis in their country.
Dozens of Cuban government agents forced the shutdown of a forum on civil society in the hemisphere at the Summit of the Americas Thursday by shouting over all the speakers until organizers postponed the meeting. The incident is an example of what pro-democracy activists call a “climate of violence” that the regime has brought to the event.
The official communist Cuban delegation arrived in Lima, Peru, this week for this year’s Summit of the Americas, chanting pro-Castro slogans and defacing art calling for a free society on the island.
The government of Iraq confronted Cuban non-resident ambassador to Baghdad, Alexis Bandrich Vega, this week about the island nation’s significant debt to the country, urging Havana to cooperate with finding a way for Iraq to regain its funds.
An NGO that tracks violence against dissidents in Cuba published a monthly report this week finding that Cuban communist agents committed over 300 political arrests in March, most of short duration, resulting in the repeated arrests of dissidents considered particularly dangerous to the regime.
The government of Zambia expelled Cuba’s ambassador in the country this week over attending an opposition presidential candidate’s rally and declaring his support for changing the government, a move Zambian officials declared “unbecoming of a diplomat.”
A Bible publisher protested this week that the Cuban communist regime has prevented them from distributing 17,000 copies printed for the island of the New International Version of the text, an update only legally available to Cuba since the regime lifted its ban on printing new Bibles in 2015.
Cuban pro-democracy activist Guillermo Fariñas announced via Twitter on Wednesday that communist authorities told a fellow dissident that no individual known to oppose the Castro regime will be allowed to engage in “visa procedures” until the Summit of the Americas ends next month.
The Cuban dissident group Ladies in White reports that at least 36 of their members were arrested violently this weekend while participating in pro-democracy protests and attempting to attend Catholic Mass on Palm Sunday.
The communist regime governing Cuba recently blocked the screening of a film in which a character describes founding father José Martí as a “fag” and a “turd,” later arguing that Martí’s image – co-opted by the communists despite his affinity for the United States – was “sacred” and not subject to public scrutiny.
Cuban state propaganda newspaper Granma called for a regional “Latin America First” policy to combat the alleged “Monroe doctrine” revival occurring under President Donald Trump this week, promoting a “Thinking Americas Forum” to replace the pro-democracy Summit of the Americas that Trump is expected to attend.
Medical organizations in Kenya condemned a government plan Monday to import doctors from Cuba to address the nation’s vast shortage of medical professionals, citing that more than one thousand ready-to-work Kenyan doctors are still unemployed in the country.
A dissident reggaetón artist imprisoned after a Cuban government agent attacked him while using the internet has been placed in solitary confinement in prison and refused to eat or drink water for one week, his mother told the Miami-based news outlet Martí Noticias this week.
Police in Colombia arrested a Cuban national illegally present in the country on Tuesday after communications with Islamic State-affiliated individuals through the encrypted app Telegram revealed he was plotting a jihadist attack on the capital, Bogotá.
