The State Department’s Protocol Office published documents Wednesday revealing that former President Barack Obama and adviser Ben Rhodes received over $5000 in gifts from the government of communist Cuba, including luxury rum and cigars.
The Communist regime controlling Cuba announced on Thursday that it would delay both the departure of elderly tyrant Raúl Castro and his likely replacement with hand-picked successor First Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel in “elections” to be held next year.
China has begun cutting off key exports to Cuba after the communist-run island failed to deliver a series of payments, official statistics reveal.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed introducing Cuba into multi-lateral talks with the rogue regime in North Korea on Thursday, citing Cuba’s established friendship with North Korea and claiming that Canada must “play a role that the United States has chosen not to play” in the crisis.
Cuban dictator Raúl Castro did not attend Cuba’s major remembrance ceremonies for older brother Fidel, who died one year ago on November 25. Enthusiastic mourning of Castro is mandatory for Cuban citizens, and some remain imprisoned for refusing to participate.
The Cuban state publication Havana Tribune has published a video of young children reciting a poem in honor of dead dictator Fidel Castro, thanking him “for making us men” and calling him “every girl’s boyfriend.”
Cuban dictator Raúl Castro met North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, in Havana on Friday before the two issued a joint statement of solidarity.
President Trump released new regulations that implement his Cuba policy this week, a follow-up to his campaign promise to end his predecessor Barack Obama’s failed approach of appeasing the Castro regime.
The communist government of Cuba has announced its candidates for the municipal “elections” scheduled for November 26, a vote which will feature zero opposition candidates on the ballot.
A Cuban dissident group has published a report detailing 145 cases of human rights violations against black Cubans, sanctioned by the communist Castro regime, which proclaimed the end of racism in 1962.
The government of China reportedly became Cuba’s largest trading partner last week after signing multiple million-dollar agreements with the fellow communist nation.
The rogue communist regime of Cuba has published an extensive report and hour-long documentary claiming that the sonic attacks on U.S. diplomats that occurred throughout the past year never happened, and that the diplomats involved mistook insect noises for sonic weapons.
The government of Brazil has blocked the few Cuban doctors who have successfully sued for full salaries from Brasilia from practicing medicine without going through medical certifications in Brazil, a luxury these doctors say they cannot afford.
Daniel Llorente, a Cuban dissident who made news in May by running into the island nation’s communist May Day parade waving an American flag, remains trapped in Havana’s notorious mental institution. Family say doctors have not diagnosed Llorente with any illness or charged him with any crime.
President Donald Trump asserted on Monday that the communist Castro regime in Cuba was responsible for a series of unexplained attacks on American diplomats, the first issuance of blame in the matter by an American official.
An individual who CBS News identified this week as a victim of a series of mysterious attacks on U.S. embassy workers in Cuba told the news outlet that the State Department was “trying to hide” the incidents and “ignored” those who raised concerns.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Tuesday that the agency’s lawyers “would certainly … be looking at” the possibility that, in failing to prevent physical attacks on American diplomats and their families, Cuba may have violated the 1961 Vienna Convention.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez declared there is “no evidence” that American diplomats have suffered acoustic attacks, leaving them with hearing loss and brain damage, at a press conference Tuesday responding to the expulsion of 15 Cuban diplomats from U.S. soil.
Brazil’s Health Minister told reporters last week that his nation’s judiciary has seen “around 150” lawsuits by Cuban doctors forced to work for negligible salaries in Brazil, the pawn’s in an elaborate for-profit enterprise that nets the communist Castro regime millions of dollars a year.
North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun celebrated the anniversary of official diplomatic ties between the communist regime and its ally Cuba on Wednesday, touting the nations’ “common cause of the world progressive peoples for independence against imperialism and for socialism.”
Cuba’s state newspaper Granma published a report Wednesday applauding the communist nation’s “higher education system” just days after Amnesty International condemned the regime for censoring the internet and punishing students who use “unauthorized” sources in reports.
CNN revealed on Sunday that U.S. sources had stated the number of American embassy personnel in Cuba affected by a mysterious wave of sonic attacks that may have left some permanently deaf is significantly higher than initially reported.
Cuban state media outlet Granma published images of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro bowing before the tomb of Fidel Castro on Wednesday, honoring the recently deceased mass murderer shortly after what would have been his 91st birthday.
The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba published a report this week detailing the alarming extent to which the communist Cuban regime has entrenched itself in Venezuela, controlling every government function, from the nation’s failing health care system to dictator Nicolás Maduro’s private security.
North Korea’s state newspaper touted the rogue nation’s alliances with Cuba and Zimbabwe on Wednesday, attempting to prove it is not isolated in the face of increasingly stern condemnation from President Donald Trump.
Colombia’s Marxist FARC terrorists have announced that they will launch a political party in the nation’s capital in September, the product of years of peace negotiations with the government of Juan Manuel Santos that will also allow most in the terrorist group to escape prison sentences.
Cuban state police violently arrested nearly seventy dissidents, most members of the Ladies in White movement, on their way to attend Catholic Mass Sunday in what has become a weekly ritual for the oppressive communist state.
Following 109 Sundays in which the communist Cuban government had denied them entry to their local church, the Ladies in White dissident group received two Catholic priests to deliver Mass in their headquarters on Sunday.
The communist regime of Cuba has committed a documented 2,559 politically motivated arrests in the first half of 2017, according to the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), an NGO that tracks and documents repressive police action on the island
The head of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), one of the island’s largest pro-democracy groups, accused the government of attempting to taint the food at the group’s headquarters with a “noxious substance,” the latest in a string of similar claims by dissidents both in and out of prison.
Over thirty members of the Ladies in White, a peaceful Catholic dissident group in Cuba, were violently arrested over the weekend for attempting to attend Sunday Mass, including leader Berta Soler.
Daniel Llorente, a Cuban dissident who made international headlines after interrupting the island’s May Day parade waving a U.S. flag, has begun a hunger strike in the Havana mental ward where the government imprisoned him following the patriotic display.
Granma, the official state newspaper of the communist government of Cuba, has published a column calling the father of violinist Luis Haza, who played “The Star-Spangled Banner” at President Donald Trump’s address last week, a “murderer” and “Batista henchman.”
President Trump’s announcement of policy revisions toward Cuba — in which many strings on the Castro regime loosened by President Barack Obama were tightened again — was attended by a number of notable Cuban dissidents and victims of Castro violence.
The Cuban propaganda newspaper Granma – the official state newspaper – has published a scathing condemnation of President Trump’s upcoming announcement of a new, pro-human rights policy towards the island’s communist dictatorship.
President Donald Trump offered the most forthright criticism of Cuba since John F. Kennedy when he addressed a crowd in Miami ahead of signing an executive order reversing the Obama administration’s policy of normalization.
In Miami, the heart of America’s Cuban exile community, President Donald Trump sounded the death knell of predecessor Barack Obama’s “normalization” policy towards Cuba, vowing,” we will not be silent in the face of communist oppression any longer.” Opening with
As President Donald Trump prepares to unveil his administration’s diplomatic policy towards Cuba, expected to repeal reforms that had made it easier for Americans to give money to the repressive Castro regime, corporations and lobbyists that have benefitted from Obama’s “normalization” have gone into attack mode.
Cuban dissident leaders who protested President Barack Obama’s “normalization” concessions to the Castro regime are eagerly awaiting President Donald Trump’s anticipated rollback of these reforms, expecting Trump to be “fair to dissidents and the exile community.”
In an interview with the Cuban-American news outlet Martí this week, Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) said President Donald Trump’s soon-to-be-unveiled Cuba policy will center around promoting “the freedom of the Cuban people” and treating the Castro regime as the “narco-terrorist tyranny” that it is.
