President Barack Obama’s concessions to Cuba opened the way for U.S. airlines to do business with the communist dictatorship. After announcing frequent flights to the island over a year ago, however, many major airlines have found the demand they expected from U.S. tourists simply is not there.
The communist government of Cuba arrested nearly 500 people for political reasons in January, most members of peaceful dissident movements attempting to practice their religion or silently expressing dissent with the Castro regime.
The human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the immediate liberation of prisoner of conscience Eduardo Cardet Concepción, a member of an anti-Communist Christian group arrested in Cuba shortly after the death of dictator Fidel Castro.
Cuban dictator Raúl Castro called for “respectful” dialogue with the new Trump administration in Washington, which would require the White House to abandon any attempts at getting the Castro regime to “enact concessions” on human rights.
Cuba has released Danilo Maldonado Machado, an artist also known as “El Sexto,” after nearly two months in prison for having celebrated the death of Fidel Castro in public.
With two days left as America’s chief executive, President Barack Obama has approved a series of new agreements with the Cuban Communist Party designed to allow Cuba a greater role in “aeronautical search and rescue.”
Activists helping Cuban-American families in Miami say that Cuban citizens landing in the United States with legal tourist visas are being detained and deported following President Barack Obama’s repeal of the “wet foot/dry foot” immigration policy this month.
The Cuban government has praised President Barack Obama for invalidating the immigration policy known as “Wet Foot/Dry Foot,” which allowed Cuban refugees to stay legally in the U.S. upon arrival, but demanded he also work to repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966, which the communists refer to as the “Law of Murder.”
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) minced no words when expressing his dismay over the outgoing President’s decision to end automatic residency for Cuban refugees to reporters.
Cuban soldiers threatened to kill President Barack Obama, vowing “a hat made of lead” for the American head of state, in a chant during a march to celebrate the 58th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
Cuban police stormed into the home of Leticia Ramos Herrería, a member of the Ladies in White dissident group, and confiscated toys the group had collected to distribute in celebration of the Christian feast day of Epiphany.
The Cuban government accompanied its annual celebration of the anniversary of the Revolution this week with a postponed display of military might experts suggest was aimed at intimidating American President-elect Donald Trump.
The government of Cuba began 2017 with the mass arrest of dissident leaders, including Ladies in White head Berta Soler, to prevent groups from attending New Year’s Day Catholic Mass.
Berta Soler, the leader of the Cuban anti-communist group Ladies in White, reported the violent arrests of about 40 dissidents earlier this week who attempted to gather in a public park. The women were beaten, some severely, for trying to meet.
Nearly 100 Cuban refugees reached the United States in the past week, with 51 refugees landing in the Florida Keys on Sunday alone. With the number of Cubans risking their lives on the high seas booming since President Barack Obama “normalized” relations with Cuba in 2014, officials fear a greater increase following the death of Fidel Castro.
Less than a month after the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl is carrying on his brother’s legacy, arresting dozens of political dissidents and one U.S. human rights lawyer over the weekend. Cuban police interrupted a Sunday
Danilo Maldonado Machado, the Cuban graffiti artist known as “El Sexto,” remains in prison to serve at least 60 days for his public celebration of the death of Fidel Castro on the streets of Havana. Maldonado has snuck a letter to the Cuban people out of prison, urging them to “demystify” the “murderer” Castro.
After canceling their silent protest for two weeks to avoid antagonizing the communist government following the death of Fidel Castro, Cuba’s Ladies in White dissident group took the streets on Sunday, the weekend of International Human Rights Day.
The D.C. lobbyist collective Engage Cuba is promoting a letter, allegedly signed by “small business” entrepreneurs in Cuba, urging President-elect Donald Trump not to undo his predecessor Barack Obama’s favorable diplomatic overtures to the Castro regime.
President Barack Obama’s “normalization” policy towards dictator Raúl Castro and death of the latter’s elder brother Fidel have put Cuba on the road to tallying over 10,000 politically-motivated arrests in 2016, according to an NGO tracking human rights violations on the island.
Cuban visual artist Danilo Maldonado (El Sexto) was arrested last week after publicly celebrating the death of dictator Fidel Castro. He has reportedly refused to eat prison food, claiming that the state is slipping sleeping pills into his food to prevent him from shouting, “down with Castro,” in his jail cell.
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro reportedly left behind millions in private mansions, yachts, private islands, and even a personal cheese factory. While the Castro family has imposed a mandatory nine-day mourning period over Cuba, questions remain as to who will inherit the head of state’s fortune.
Radical leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was among the few leaders representing Europe at an hours-long event commemorating the life of dictator Fidel Castro in Cuba, praising the brutal tyrant as an “international symbol of struggle and resistance” who “inspired political and social changes in Latin America.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office has confirmed that he will not be attending the funeral of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, a man Trudeau has called a “larger-than-life” leader and “legendary revolutionary.” The Prime Minister’s office issued a statement only
If Fidel Castro’s death, plus the arrival of a new U.S. administration, are the double whammy that finally brings change to Cuba, here are five dissident artists who will help usher in the post-Castro era.
The Cuban communist regime has imposed a nine-day mourning period following the death of dictator Fidel Castro, banning the public sales of alcohol, playing music, or “public spectacles.”
Pope Francis sent a telegram to Cuban President Raúl Castro Saturday, expressing his “sentiments of sorrow” over the death of Raúl’s brother, former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) said President Barack Obama’s administration has strengthened the “tyrannical regime” of the late Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl Castro in Cuba. Cruz said, “What the Obama administration has done is
Cuban secret police have abducted the anti-communist artist Danilo Maldonado, according to his mother, who told the Spain-based Diario de Cuba that he had taken to the streets late Friday to celebrate the death of dictator Fidel Castro.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) urged Americans, in the wake of Fidel Castro’s death, to remember the Cubans who fought against the Castro regime during the past few decades.
While the celebration is a long time coming, the work of rebuilding what the Castros are still endeavoring to destroy, and educating the ignorant who dismiss that destruction, remains nowhere near done.
One of the most brutal dictators in modern history has just died. Oddly enough, some will mourn his passing, and many an obituary will praise him. Millions of Cubans who have been waiting impatiently for this moment for more than half a century will simply ponder his crimes and recall the pain and suffering he caused.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised Cuban dictator Raúl Castro that he would not allow American President-elect Donald Trump to dissuade him from supporting the communist regime, repeatedly referring to the dictator as “my friend” and thanking him for his “hospitality.”
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced the conclusion of a new “peace deal” with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terrorist group. This agreement appears to be designed to avoid a national referendum and thus another round of humiliation if the people reject it again.
The communist government of Cuba announced Wednesday that it would begin “five days of nationwide military exercises” to “materialize the doctrine of All People’s War,” according to the state propaganda arm. The announcement follows the election of Republican Donald Trump as U.S.
A group of 18 Cuban men and women navigated off the island to Honduras, arriving in Central America on Tuesday morning, just as forecasts predicted Hurricane Matthew would be slamming into the Caribbean.
Speaking at a rally in Miami, Florida, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed to reverse the myriad concessions to the Cuban communist regime made under President Barack Obama and stand “with the oppressed people of Venezuela” in their struggle to rid their country of socialism.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has ended his 23rd hunger strike after 54 days, calling it a “victory” after reports circulated that the European Union is considering making any economic deals with Cuba contingent on the communist government respecting human rights.
“My father has been on hunger strike for 49 days. At this point, any hospital would taken him in urgently, but not in Cuba,” wrote the daughter of Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas on Wednesday, who has continued to refused to eat unless the communist dictatorship agrees to stop using violence against dissenters.
World-renowned Cuban dissident activist Guillermo Fariñas began his 46th day on his 24th hunger strike Monday, a strike he has said he will end only when dictator Raúl Castro agrees to an end to the use of state violence against political dissidents.