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Cuba’s barely functional power grid completely collapsed for the fifth time in less than a year on Wednesday, leaving the entire country without power throughout the day.

Genocidal dictator Xi Jinping of China on Thursday vowed to continue supporting Cuba’s communist regime after meeting with the nation’s figurehead “president,” Miguel Díaz-Canel.

Chargé d’affaires ad interim Mike Hammer, the United States’ top diplomat in Havana, visited the Cuban city of Matanzas this week and called for the liberation of unjustly detained Cuban artists while state officials closely followed and recorded him.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly detained Rogelio Enrique Bolufé Izquierdo, a former bodyguard of late communist dictator Fidel Castro, and could soon deport him to either Mexico or Ecuador, according to the U.S. outlet Martí Noticias.

The United States will impose visa restrictions on Brazilian government officials involved in the Mais Medicos (“More Doctors”) program.

The U.S. State Department will announce on Wednesday that it had imposed visa restrictions on unnamed government officials from Grenada and several African states, in addition to members of the Cuban Communist Party, in relation to Havana’s longstanding Cuban health worker slavery scheme.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly detained Jorge Luis Vega García, allegedly one of the Cuban communist regime’s most feared torturers, Martí Noticias reported Tuesday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly detained Jorge Javier Rodríguez Cabrera, a former diplomat of Cuba’s communist regime.

Activists representing communities facing ethnic cleansing and genocide under the Chinese Communist Party urged Congress during an event on Monday not just to oppose China’s human rights abuses, but identify their communities as sovereign nations colonized under an imperial Chinese state.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine announced on Monday that it had plans to open four new embassies in Latin America by the end of the year and over ten new consular offices in Europe – in part at the expense of Ukraine’s embassy in Cuba.

Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked Chinese Prosecutor General Ying Yong for China’s “training” of Cuban prosecutors during Ying’s weekend visit to the island nation.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently deported Cuban Interior Ministry official Daniel Morejón García, who participated in the brutal repression of the peaceful July 2021 anti-communist protests in Cuba, Martí Noticias reported on Wednesday.

A growing number of embassies of foreign countries in Havana, Cuba, are struggling to access cash as Cuban regime banks freeze their accounts, claiming they simply do not have cash on hand to give, multiple sources told Breitbart News this week.

Top Cuban Communist Party officials spent the weekend griping after the U.S. State Department limited visa access.

Cubans around the world marked the fourth anniversary on Friday of the nationwide protests on the island in 2021 in which thousands of people flooded the streets of nearly every major city to demand an end to communism.

Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel on Sunday delivered an impassioned screed against America President Donald Trump’s recent measures against the communist regime during the annual summit of the anti-U.S. BRICS coalition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have spent extensive efforts to diminish or outright erase the significance of their countries’ national independence days, crafting unpopular communist replacements for the anniversaries.

Cuba’s communist regime launched an intense repressive campaign against several journalists, activists, and dissidents to prevent them from attending the Fourth of July celebrations hosted by the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba-focused outlets reported on Thursday.

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin on Tuesday met in Havana with Cuban figurehead “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel, who described the Russian official as a “good friend” of Cuba.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) implementing a tougher U.S. policy against Cuba’s communist regime and reversing concessions granted by former U.S. President Joe Biden.

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban communist mass murderer Fidel Castro, published a bizarre video message on Monday condemning President Donald Trump’s illegal migrant crackdown policies.

Cuba is preventing provincial Cubans who live outside Havana from attending the U.S. embassy’s traditional Independence Day celebration on July 4, the independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Monday.

Latin America’s far-left governments and Iran’s top allies in the region over the weekend rallied in defense of the rogue Islamic regime after the United States launched strikes against three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday.

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío on Wednesday said that the communist regime has not ruled out expelling the head of the U.S. embassy in Havana, Mike Hammer, who they recently accused of being a “subversive agent.”

The communist regime in Cuba is reportedly processing a ten-year prison sentence for dissident Alexander Verdecia in response to messages he published on Facebook criticizing the regime this year, Martí Noticias reported on Tuesday.

The authoritarian regimes of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua condemned Israel and pledged unwavering support for Iran after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure on Friday morning.

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba and Venezuela over the weekend condemned specific U.S. travel restrictions recently imposed on their citizens by President Donald Trump, which went into effect on Monday.

Cuba’s figurehead president Miguel Díaz-Canel extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV on Thursday to visit the island.

President Donald Trump’s proclamation imposing U.S. travel restrictions on Cuban and Venezuelan nationals comes after years of repeated abuse of the American immigration system and visa overstays by individuals linked to the two nations’ respective authoritarian regimes.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf on Tuesday called for Iran and Cuba to bolster their relations during his official visit to the communist-ruled nation, stressing that both nations have “common goals, allies, and enemies.”

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that it signed a joint “International Cooperation in the Field of Information Security” agreement with over ten different nations, including the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and North Korea.

Cuba issued a warning to the head of the U.S. embassy in Havana, Mike Hammer, accusing him of “interfering and unfriendly conduct.”

The Cuban communist regime released imprisoned Evangelical pastor Luis Guillermo Borjas from custody this weekend, but not before the pastor reportedly converted five people behind bars.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday had a cutting two-word response after 10 illegal immigrants dismissed a lawsuit against the department.

Melody González Pedraza, identified as a Cuban regime judge known for issuing excessive prison sentences to peaceful dissidents who entered the United States under Biden-era policies, is now slated for deportation, Martí Noticias reported on Wednesday.

The coordinator of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Cubans “suffer under the same type of regime that Ukrainians suffer” after a Ukrainian lawmaker presented evidence that thousands of Cuban mercenaries are participating in the Russian invasion of their country.