Cuban dictator Raúl Castro welcomed a delegation of American Congresspersons this week led by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who used the opportunity to disparage their own government as “stupid” for maintaining sanctions on Havana and defend the communist regime from evidence that it allowed an attack on U.S. diplomats that resulted in brain damage.
Cuban officials prevented dissident Daniel Llorente, trapped in a psychiatric ward despite no official diagnosis or legal charges against him, from seeing his son this weekend after he made a sign reading “down with Raul Castro’s dictatorship” and held it up within the facility.
The manager of a Castro-friendly Cuban band reportedly condemned the government in a Facebook post on Sunday, claiming that the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television had banned a recent hit song whose video has 5.9 million views on Cuban social media.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Thursday reveals that 21 of the Americans complaining of hearing loss, balance problems, and other cognitive issues after working at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba suffered “widespread brain network dysfunction” of an unknown cause.
The communist government of Cuba announced late Thursday that Fidel Castro’s eldest confirmed son, Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart, has died of a “suicide” after battling “a deep depressive state.” He was 68.
A Cuban dissident organization published a video this week of a dissident member of the Ladies in White group protesting against the Castro regime in her town. After some seconds of her chanting “down with Castro,” plain-clothed officers appear, grab her by the neck, and drag her into a police car.
The leader of the Cuban dissident group Christian Liberation Movement, Eduardo Cardet, was stabbed and beaten recently in the maximum-security prison his was forced into in 2016 after reportedly refusing to mourn dictator Fidel Castro.
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.”
