Cuba

Cuba’s communist Castro regime is seeking oil from Africa to offset the oil it is no longer getting from Venezuela’s socialist regime thanks to President Donald Trump’s campaign pressure, the independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Monday.

A plane carrying the remains of 32 identified Cuban state security agents killed in the American military operation to arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro landed in Havana on Thursday. Shocking footage of its arrival showed that the remains of the fallen were apparently not large enough for coffins and brought home in small boxes.

Venezuelan Interior Minister and long suspected drug lord Diosdado Cabello on Tuesday claimed that is “impossible” to determine how many people allegedly died in the U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro because they were “blown to pieces.”

Granma, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, published a compilation of purported “social media comments” threatening Americans.

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, on Sunday night published a bizarre video of himself dancing to the “Not War, Yes Peace” remix song featuring deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s “English” messages to the U.S.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Cuba is being cut off from oil and money, and urged the communist-controlled nation to make a deal.

The Cuban Communist Party’s cable news network aired a commentary this week claiming that continued Castro regime control was a “guarantee for the national security of the United States.”

Cuba’s revelation that dozens of its agents were killed in the arrest of Nicolás Maduro confirmed that he did not trust his own people.

Cuba’s communist Castro regime on Sunday decreed a two-day period of mourning to “honor” 32 Cuban military officials allegedly killed during the U.S. law enforcement action in Caracas that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the leaders in Cuba were in a lot of trouble when asked about potential military actions.

Communist figurehead “president” of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel welcomed the new year demanding the Cuban people be “united more than ever.”

An independent study conducted by the Cuban Observatory for Citizen Auditing (OCAC) and published on Monday by the Madrid-based Cuba Siglo 21 think tank found that the communist regime is severely downplaying the number of preventable deaths caused by an ongoing epidemiological crisis.

Cuban slave doctors presently in Luanda, Angola denounced that they spent Christmas without receiving pay for their services from the Cuban communist regime, the independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Thursday.

Cuba’s communist regime, which regularly rants about the purported U.S. “embargo” hurting its economy, has purchased over $8 billion worth of agricultural and food products from the U.S. since 2001, the Madrid-based outlet Diario de Cuba reported on Monday.

The U.S.-based Cuban news outlet Martí Noticias reported on Thursday that the Communist Party on the island has ordered the expulsion of Father José Ramírez, a priest stationed in Havana who rang the bells of his church on Monday in solidarity with protesters who had taken to the streets that night.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker bound for Cuba as it was sailing off the coast of Venezuela.

At least six neighborhoods in Havana, Cuba, erupted in anti-communist protests between Monday night and Tuesday morning, featuring residents shouting “down with communism!” and “freedom!” while confronting the Castro regime’s repressive forces.

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

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a body dedicated to unjust imprisonment cases, recently found that 49 Cuban citizens arrested during the historic July 11, 2021, anti-communist protests were detained arbitrarily, the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders revealed Tuesday.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday posted an animated GIF image of a clown in response to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla after the communist official accused him of being a “corrupt and compulsive liar.”

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida indicted Luis Raúl González-Pardo Rodríguez, a Cuban pilot linked to the Castro regime’s killing of four Americans in 1996, on immigration fraud charges, U.S. Attorneys Gregory W. Kehoe and Jason A. Reding Quiñones announced on Wednesday.

Ukrainian lawmaker Maryan Zablotsky, the head of the Free Cuba Caucus of the Verkhovna Rada, announced on Tuesday that his government was willing to free the four living Cuban mercenaries in its custody, and return the bodies of 41 others, in exchange for the communist regime liberating its own political prisoners.

The Communist Party of Cuba is selling thousands of young men to Russia as mercenaries to fight in the invasion of Ukraine, Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, the coordinator of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, told reporters on Monday.

The administration of President Donald Trump this week received unprecedented support at the United Nations from countries joining the U.S. in voting against the yearly, quasi-traditional symbolic resolution condemning the “embargo” against communist Cuba.

The government of Ukraine confirmed on Wednesday that it is shutting down its embassy in Havana, Cuba, in response to the Communist Party offering thousands of mercenaries to Russia to participate in the ongoing invasion of its territory.

Hurricane Melissa roared across eastern Cuba making landfall near the city of Chivirico early Wednesday morning after being downgraded to a Category 3 storm. The extreme weather event hit after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record.

Hurricane Melissa became a Category 5 storm early Monday and is forecast to cause extensive damage when it makes landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday.

Hurricane Melissa has been upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane as it threatens Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba while producing winds of 140 miles per hour after its wind speed doubled in under 24 hours.

The top American diplomat in Cuba, Embassy Charge d’Affairs Mike Hammer, was among hundreds who attended a Catholic Mass on Tuesday to honor what would have been the hundredth birthday of Celia Cruz, one of Cuba’s most iconic and beloved singers.

Exiled Cuban anti-communist dissident José Daniel Ferrer described the communist Castro regime’s inhumane torture.

Prominent left-wing politicians, heads of state, and commentators reacted with vitriol, dismay, and apathy at the news this weekend that anti-socialist opposition leader María Corina Machado had won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Cuban citizens in Marianao, Havana, peacefully protested this week to denounce blackouts, hunger, and neglect under the communist regime, defying recent threats by figurehead “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel against dissidents, Martí Noticias reported on Wednesday.

Russia’s rubber-stamp legislature passed an “intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation” with the communist government of Cuba.

José Daniel Ferrer — the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), the nation’s largest dissident organization — announced that he has agreed to go into forced exile after enduring months of unbearable torture.