Cubans turn to cooking with charcoal as energy crisis worsens
For Maria Elena Veiga, a 60-year-old Cuban housewife living on the outskirts of Havana, charcoal has become the go-to fuel ...
What We Know About the Secretive Migrant Mission at Guantánamo Bay
The Trump administration has said little about the Venezuelan men who were transferred from Texas to the U.S. military base ...
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Russia Turns To Cuban Recruits As It Struggles With Conscription, RFE/RL Reveals
An RFE/RL investigation reveals details about the role of Cuban mercenaries fighting in Russia's war against Ukraine, with ...
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BBC Mundo Interview with Cuban Artist Daymé Arocena
Daymé Arocena (Havana, 1992) says that some people are afraid to call her black. "It’s as if it were a hurtful word." ...
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Behind the Book: Carmen Agra Deedy's 'The Peanut Man'
PW spoke with the bestselling author about her new picture book, which has received a starred review from PW, in which a young girl makes a deep connection with a peanut vendor in her native Cuba ...
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Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
(The Conversation) – On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – ...
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Marco Rubio Condemns Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua: "Regimes That Imprison, Torture, and Exile Their People"
and murder innocent people." Regarding Cuba, Rubio noted that more than 10% of the population has escaped the country, while the regime holds over 500 individuals in detention, including 16-year-olds ...
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Visiting scholar praises resistance of the Palestinian people
Havana, Feb 5 (ACN) Palestinian-born American scholar Rabah Abdulhadi gave a lecture in Havana titled "From Vietnam to Palestine: The student intifada and internationalism" about the history of the ...
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Publishing the State Department's List of Entities and Subentities Associated With Cuba (Cuba Restricted List)
This site displays a prototype of a “Web 2.0” version of the daily Federal Register. It is not an official legal edition of the Federal Register, and does not replace the official print version or the ...
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While signing Laken Riley Act, Trump says he’ll send ‘worst criminal aliens’ to Guantanamo
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval ...
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Trump inherits Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, four 'forever prisoners'
President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but ...
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A new luxury hotel towers over Havana as Cuba’s economic troubles mount and tourism plummets
(AP video by Ariel Fernandez, Milexsy Duran) People walk past the Selection La Habana new hotel, managed by Spanish chain Iberostar, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) ...