News | Cuba

January 31, 2026

Americas

US choking Cuba’s economy – Moscow

Russia opposes unilateral sanctions, including Washington’s “maximum pressure” strategy, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. © Sputnik/Sergey Guneev

January 12, 2026

Americas

Cuba denies being in talks with Trump on potential deal

Havana (AFP) – Cuba's leader on Monday reacted defiantly to President Donald Trump's threats to "make a deal" or pay the price in the aftermath of key ally Nicolas Maduro's ouster in a US military raid.

By Editors Desk

Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel (L) and US President Donald Trump have traded heated rhetoric on social media © Mauro PIMENTEL, ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP/File

January 08, 2026

Americas

Cuba Is Already on the Brink. Maduro’s Ouster Brings It Closer to Collapse.

Cubans are speculating about whether their government will be the next to fall, with Venezuelan oil imports now in jeopardy.

By Editors Desk

A street scene in Cuba’s capital, Havana. Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images

January 06, 2026

Americas

Maduro’s Capture Deals Heavy Blow to Cuba’s Vaunted Intelligence Service

Cuba says 32 officers assigned to protect Venezuela’s deposed strongman were killed by U.S. forces, signaling trouble for Havana’s own rulers

By Editors Desk

Workers fly the Cuban flag at half-staff outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana, marking the deaths of Cubans killed in the U.S. raid in Venezuela. Ramon Espinosa/AP

June 02, 2025

Sports

Cuba tried to improve its relations with the US by cooperating with Trump’s deportation flights. It didn’t work.

Cuba has taken five deportation flights since Trump took office, but the administration appears disinterested in improving relations with Havana.

By Editors Desk

Trump administration officials and members of the Cuban exile community have pushed for a tougher line on Cuban leadership, arguing that the communist government represents a major national security threat. | Ramon Espinosa/AP

January 16, 2025

Americas

Cuba begins release of jailed protesters under US terror list deal

Honoring a deal with US President Joe Biden's administration which saw it removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, the Cuban government started releasing jailed protesters on Wednesday, despite the possibility of incoming US President Donald Trump reversing Biden's decision.

By Editors Desk

Liset Fonseca, whose son was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for his participation in anti-government protests, shown in San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque Province, Cuba, January 15, 2025. © Yamil Lage, AFP

October 20, 2024

Americas

Cubans begin third day without power as hurricane nears

By Editors Desk

Residents pass the time during a blackout following the failure of a major power plant in Havana, Cuba on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. Ramon Espinosa/AP

January 04, 2023

Americas

US Embassy in Cuba resumes visa and consular services

The US Embassy in Cuba has resumed visa services five years after they were paused due to a spate of mysterious health incidents among its staff.

By Editors Desk

GETTY IMAGES / The Cuban economy has been in dire straits in recent years

September 28, 2022

Americas

Hurricane Ian: Cuba suffers complete blackout after storm

Cuba is completely without power after Hurricane Ian pummelled the western end of the island, its government has announced.

By Editors Desk

GETTY IMAGES / If the rocket is not launched by 5 October, the next window will run from 17-31 October

September 18, 2022

United States

US quietly stepping up efforts to shut down Guantanamo – WSJ

A senior diplomat has been appointed to oversee transfers of detainees from the prison facility, the outlet reports

By Editors Desk

Demonstrators dressed in Guantanamo Bay prisoner uniforms march past Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. © AFP / Brendan Smialowski

January 27, 2022

Americas

Russia unveils military plans in Cuba & Latin America

Putin has agreed on a new collaboration with Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua

By Editors Desk

The Venezuelan army team's crew takes part in the tank biathlon's individual race competition during the 2017 International Army Games at the Alabino training ground in the Moscow region. © Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov

July 12, 2021

Americas

Cuban Protests Demand Freedom, Food, Covid-19 Vaccines

Thousands march in Havana and other cities amid a hard-currency shortage and rising coronavirus infections

Police detained an antigovernment demonstrator during a protest in Havana on Sunday. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS

May 17, 2020

Americas

Young Cuban doctor helps with Italy's battle against Covid-19

Neither the northern Italian chill nor the unfamiliar language has deterred a young Cuban doctor who for the past two months has been helping in the fight against coronavirus in Europe, thousands of miles from home.

Cuban doctor Roberto Arias Hernandez, who specializes in internal medicine, poses in front of Cuban and Italian flags at the Maggiore Hospital in Crema, northwest Italy, on May 15, 2020. © Miguel Medina, AFP

April 02, 2020

Americas

‘Criminal blockade’: Cuba outraged as delivery of Covid-19 aid from Alibaba chief aborted ‘at the last minute’ due to US sanctions

Cuba has slammed the US’ “criminal blockade” of the country after the embargo stood in the way of the delivery of Covid-19 test kits and ventilators donated by Chinese e-commerce tycoon Jack Ma.

A woman wears a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the novel coronavirus in Havana, Cuba. March 28, 2020. © Yamil Lage / AFP

July 29, 2019

Americas

Cuban government cautiously expands Internet access

All Cubans can now have Wi-Fi in their homes, as the island’s government extends internet access even while trying to maintain control over its version of the “truth” and to defend its legitimacy, a top official tells AFP.

Yamil Lage, AFP | Young Cubans connect to the internet from their mobile phone in Havana, on June 6, 2019.

June 05, 2019

Americas

Venezuela crisis: How Maduro 'spent THOUSANDS of state funds on Cuban rituals'

VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro allegedly spent thousands of state funds on religious rituals in Cuba, according to a former intelligence official.

Venezuela have enjoyed warm relations with Cuba in the past (Image: GETTY)

May 14, 2019

World

The hidden world of the doctors Cuba sends overseas

Cuba has long been renowned for its medical diplomacy - thousands of its doctors work in healthcare missions around the world, earning the country billions of dollars in cash. But according to a new report, some of the doctors themselves say conditions can be nightmarish - controlled by minders, subject to a curfew and posted to extremely dangerous places, James Badcock reports.

Dayli Coro says she was regularly threatened at gunpoint

June 07, 2018

Asia

More US staffers evacuated from China over mystery illness after hearing noises

A MEDICAL mystery is intensifying as US consulate workers in China fall ill after hearing strange high-pitched noises.

Americans in China Warned to Beware 'Unusual Sounds' After Embassy Staffer Suffers Brain Injury

April 18, 2018

Americas

Cuba nominates Castro replacement Miguel Díaz-Canel

Cuba's parliament has picked Raúl Castro's right-hand man, Miguel Díaz-Canel, as the sole candidate to succeed him, ending the family's long rule.

GETTY IMAGES / Mr Díaz-Canel is said to be more accessible than the Castro brothers

February 25, 2018

Americas

Despite medical study, mystery over sickness of US diplomats in Cuba remains unsolved

A US congressional delegation visited Cuba this week but the diplomatic standoff between the two countries over alleged "sonic attacks" on American diplomats in Havana continues. Now medical experts are weighing in.

© AFP | A screen shot taken on October 26, 2017 from Cuban Television shows environmentalists analysing sounds in areas where officials from the US embassy in Havana were allegedly affected by mysterious attacks.

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