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The head of the only legal workers’ union in Cuba announced on Tuesday that the communist regime had canceled its most prestigious annual event, the May Day parade in Havana, due to “limitations with securing fuel.”

The Communist Party of Cuba signed a deal this week with a Chinese tour agency to facilitate travel from the fellow dictatorship to the island nation and attempt to revive the floundering tourism industry in Cuba that its repressive military is highly dependent on for profits.

Elián González, the former child refugee violently abducted by former President Bill Clinton’s far-left administration to serve as a mascot for the Cuban communist regime, expressed hope in an interview this week that, as a newly elected lawmaker, he could work to get the nation’s exiles to “come home.”

The Cuban Communist Party held “elections” on Sunday in which 470 hand-picked candidates vied for 470 seats in the National People’s Power Assembly, the national lawmaking body — meaning every candidate was guaranteed a seat.

A Cuban baseball player defected to the United States following the World Baseball Classic in Miami this week.

Sen. Marco Rubio said on Sunday that the Miami Marlins were reportedly blocking people from displaying anti-communist slogans.

An anonymous pro-communist Youtuber and social media commentator suspected of being an operative of Cuban State Security published the address and home photos of a prominent Cuban exile community leader – an attempt, that leader says, to intimidate him into silence by threatening his family.

A Southwest Airlines flight headed to Florida turned around and made an emergency landing in Cuba after the plane struck birds, leading an engine to catch fire and fill the cabin with smoke. 

A Southwest plane flying from Havana, Cuba, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, filled with smoke and had to make an emergency landing on Sunday after birds hit one of the plane’s engines.

Russian state-oil corporation Rosneft’s CEO Igor Sechin visited Cuba over the weekend to meet Castro regime figurehead President Miguel Díaz-Canel and discuss “mutual collaboration.”

An extensive report published Thursday by the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders documented in detail the abuse of Cuban political prisoners following the nationwide protests on July 11, 2021, including torture and arbitrary detention of children, infirm seniors, and persons with documented mental illness.

Outraged lawmakers are protesting a Biden administration plan to allow Cuban regime agents to tour “sensitive national security facilities.”

Latin American and African nations made up the bulk of the small resistance on Thursday against condemning Russia on the anniversary of its “special operation” against Ukraine during a vote at the United Nations General Assembly.

Former dictator Raúl Castro, 91, being “nominated” to “run” in an “election” for a seat in the Cuban national legislature is an indication that the Communist Party never prepared a competent successor and the regime may not survive with a Castro family member at the helm, experts and human rights activists told Breitbart News this week.

The Communist Party of Cuba blamed burning sugar cane for a power outage that plunged half the island into darkness for hours on Monday, the latest in a series of electric failures that have fueled nearly incessant protests against the Castro regime.

The ongoing, nearly incessant anti-communist protest movement in Cuba has been largely fueled by a Christian reawakening on the island, recently exiled Cuban journalist Yoe Suárez told Breitbart News.

Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, a Cuban communist spy whose work led to the killing of four Americans in the 1990s, has found a new job promoting a regime-owned online shop specializing in expensive foreign products.

Raúl Castro, the 91-year-old communist former dictator of Cuba who served for decades as elder brother Fidel Castro’s top executioner, this week unretired from politics to appear on the ballot as a “candidate” for the Cuban parliament in next month’s “election.”

The far-left President of Chile Gabriel Boric called for “free, fair, and transparent” elections for Venezuela and for the liberation of Nicaragua’s political prisoners during a speech at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit on Tuesday.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping addressed this week’s Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit on Tuesday, urging the Western Hemisphere to embrace the Belt and Road Chinese debt trap program and emphasizing that China sees the region as a “key partner in enhancing solidarity.”

Radical leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva encouraged his Latin American counterparts to treat the violent, terrorist-linked dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela with “great affection” on Monday.

Cuba announced on Wednesday that China has formalized a 700 million Chinese Yuan ($100 million) “donation” to the communist Castro regime.

Five Cuban families residing in a crumbling building in Old Havana sent a letter to the news website Cibercuba expressing fear that their derelict building, which suffered a partial collapse in October that claimed the life of a five-year-old, will face another collapse that will end their lives.

An influx of illegal immigration has forced the United States National Park Service to close Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys. 

Cuban citizens held 692 recorded protests against the communist Castro regime during December 2022 – bringing the total for the year to 3,923 protests, according to the latest report published by the Cuban Observatory of Conflict civil society organization on Monday.

The Castro regime’s puppet president Miguel Díaz-Canel announced on Wednesday evening that he received a visit from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR).

White House officials are leaking claims they will use the Title 42 border barrier to push more migrants into a quasi-legal network of “immigration parole” doorways to Americans’ jobs and housing, according to a Reuters report.

A group of Cuban activists and health professionals criticized the communist Castro regime’s plans to send an additional 119 Cuban slave doctors to Mexico, at a time when the nation’s precarious and understaffed healthcare system faces its worst crisis in more than six decades of communist rule.

The Department of Homeland Security publicly posted the names and personal information of 46 Cuban refugees who had requested protection from America out of fear of persecution at home, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, tipping off the communist Castro regime.

CARACAS — Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro lashed out once more on Wednesday against the region’s “cowardly left,” directing his now recurring rant against those who criticize the authoritarian regime of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. 

The human rights organization Cuban Prisoners Defenders published a report Tuesday accusing the Mideast emirate of Qatar of funding and benefiting from Cuba’s slave doctor industry — and forcing enslaved health workers to promote Doha’s “political agendas.”

A delegation of three Democrat U.S. Congressmen — Reps. James McGovern (D-MA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), and Troy Carter (D-LA) — traveled to Havana over the weekend to meet with several members of the communist Castro regime and their puppet president Miguel Díaz-Canel.

A committee of the U.S. Department of Justice released a statement on Wednesday urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny an application to build an underwater internet communication cable connecting America to Cuba.

Biden’s border agency has sent a small number of rescued Cuban migrants into a holding center at a U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Alejandro Gil confirmed this weekend that the Communist Party’s puppet “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel secured a $100-million “donation” from the Chinese government during his visit to Beijing.

Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel landed in China on Thursday and met with dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday to discuss cooperation between socialist countries, economic development, and their mutual distaste for America.