Cuba

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.

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 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.

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.

Miami Police Department Chief Manuel Morales confirmed on Thursday that the FBI is investigating death threats against himself and prominent Florida democracy activist and Breitbart News contributor Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat originating from a YouTube account linked to the communist regime in Cuba.

The U.S. State Department, in a statement to Breitbart News on Thursday, denied complaints from the Communist Party of Cuba that visa restrictions on members of the violent regime would prevent Cuba from being an active participant in the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional body of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).

Cuba’s communist regime accused the United States of engaging in “discriminatory treatment” by allegedly refusing to allow Deputy Health Minister Tania Margarita Cruz to participate in an event for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional subsidiary of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), in Washington.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien who threatened to bomb the offices of Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) last year in what police have called a “vulgar, racist” voicemail that ended in threats of political violence.

The leftist Chicago Teachers Union is honoring the life of Assata Shakur, who was convicted of killing a police officer in the 1970s.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday deported Melody González Pedraza, a Cuban communist judge who entered the U.S. through the Biden administration’s “humanitarian parole” program, Martí Noticias reported.

Outgoing socialist President of Bolivia Luis Arce denounced alleged “death threats” that loom over Latin America as a result of the United States’ ongoing drug-fighting efforts in Caribbean international waters during his final speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday.

Vietnamese performer Duc Phuc won the Moscow-hosted “Intervision Song Contest” this weekend, a revival of a Cold War-era alternative to the Eurovision Song Contest that strongman Vladimir Putin hailed as a display of “respect for traditional values” and “diversity.”

Members of Ukraine’s federal lawmaking body, the Verkhovna Rada, told Congress during a virtual briefing on Thursday that Russia’s ability to persist in invading their country is largely a result of support from U.S.-designated state sponsors of terrorism Iran, Cuba, and North Korea.

An illegal immigrant beheaded a man in Dallas, Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, discussing the reality if the crimes his men and women in uniform are dealing with.

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that President Trump can end the protected status bestowed by Biden on about 430,000 migrants.

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.

Cuba Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva claimed this week that the Castro regime negotiated a “restructuring” of its undisclosed financial debt to China, Cuban state outlets reported.

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.

Heads of state from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) far-left trade bloc condemned this week President Donald Trump’s efforts to address threats from regional drug cartels by deploying troops on Caribbean waters.

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.

Russia is proposing the creation of an alternative “Silicon Valley” tech company cluster on Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud island for companies within the BRICS anti-U.S. bloc and Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) countries in Latin America, the Cuban state media outlet Cubadebate reported over the weekend.

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