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Cubans still reeling from months of hours-long blackouts now have a new problem on their hands: fuel shortages. Many gas stations across the island have been shuttered for days as an unusually ...
Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez, responded, saying the “U.S. government, particularly its embassy in #Cuba, should abstain from interfering in the internal affairs of our country and ...
More than half of Cuba was without power on Thursday evening as fuel shortages and broken-down power plants left the government with little choice but to black out a vast swath of the Caribbean ...
On 17 March and 18 March 2024, blackouts alongside a poor harvest and food shortages [29] [6] [30] caused [7] [8] widespread protests primarily in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's second largest city, during which three people were arrested. [5] [31] Cuba accused the government of the United States of stirring up unrest, an accusation that the United ...
On 12 January 2021, then-U.S. President Donald Trump added Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, implementing a new series of economic sanctions on the country. [7] The government of Cuba had hoped that Joe Biden would remove Cuba from the list. However, Biden has entirely avoided the issue and, according to Cuban governmental sources ...
In 2020, the economic situation in Cuba worsened. The Cuban economy contracted by 10.9% in 2020, and by 2% in the first six months of 2021. [11] The economic crises emerged from a combination of factors, [46] [47] including reduced financial support (subsidized fuel) from Cuba's ally Venezuela, the United States embargo against Cuba and United States sanctions (tightened by the Trump ...
“Today’s actions demonstrate that President Biden’s Cuba policy, which is focused on achieving practical results with respect to human rights in Cuba, will pay dividends for the Cuban people ...
The GMOC has operated as a place to detain certain migrants at various times going back to the 1990s. [4] [5] At one point in the 1990s the facility held "thousands of Haitian migrants inside the Guantanamo base, including in a notorious camp for those diagnosed with HIV, who were banned from entering the U.S. at the time." [6]