Tag: Cuba

• Friday, October 25th 2024 - 22:54 UTC

  Venezuela angry at Brazil for BRICS exclusion while Bolivia and Cuba were admitted

  

  While Cuba and Bolivia were accepted into the BRICS bloc as associate states, the Bolivarian regimen of President Nicolás Maduro blamed Brazil for Venezuela's exclusion.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2024 - 08:35 UTC

  Cuba lives through Hurricane Oscar amid power shortages

  

  In addition to the current electricity supply crisis, Cuba's eastern province of Guantanamo, near Baracoa, was hit by Category I Hurricane Oscar late Sunday with maximum sustained winds of nearly 80 mph (130km/h). Oscar later waned to a tropical storm with 70 mph winds, the US National Hurricane Center said but it could still cause significant flash flooding and mudslides.

• Saturday, October 19th 2024 - 09:58 UTC

  Cuba slowly recovering from mass blackout

  

  Cuba was gradually and slowly returning to normalcy late Friday after a power outage that hit most of the country, the National Electroenergetic System (SEN) pointed out in its latest update.

• Friday, June 14th 2024 - 07:32 UTC

  US submarine deployed to Guantanamo as Russian flotilla arrives in Cuba

  

  US authorities have ruled out that the presence of the nuclear-powered USS Helena submarine at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba had anything to do with the presence of a Russian flotilla in Havana.

• Friday, June 7th 2024 - 19:45 UTC

  Russian fleet deployed to Caribbean Sea

  

  A Russian nuclear submarine and three other warships will be participating alongside Cuban forces in a drill in the Caribbean Sea between June 12 and 17 to further deepen the friendly ties between the two countries, according to Havanna's Foreign Ministry.

• Monday, April 15th 2024 - 10:22 UTC

  US diplomat spying for Cuba given a 15-year prison sentence

  

  Colombian-born Victor Manuel Rocha, who served as a former US Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying for Cuba for 40 years.

• Friday, March 1st 2024 - 05:00 UTC

  Cuban government begs UN food program for milk to feed children

  

  The Cuban government has asked the UN's food program for help as food shortages on the Communist-run island worsen. The World Food Program (WFP) said it had received an unprecedented official request from the Cuban government for help providing powdered milk to children under seven years of age.

• Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 10:48 UTC

  Fidel's sister Juanita Castro dies in Miami, aged 90

  

  After standing up against the Communist regime of her brothers Fidel and Raúl, Cuban opposition leader in exile Juanita Castro died Monday at a Miami of natural causes at the age of 90, her biographer María Antonieta Collins confirmed.

• Monday, December 4th 2023 - 10:32 UTC

  Former top US diplomat arrested for working for Cuban gov't

  

  The Colombian-born Manuel Rocha, a 73-year-old former diplomat who served as US Ambassador to Bolivia and was also in charge of the Embassy in Buenos Aires between 1997 and 2000, has been arrested in Miami for allegedly working to promote the interests of the Cuban government, it was reported.

• Tuesday, November 7th 2023 - 09:40 UTC

  Seven Cubans defect during Pan American Games in Chile

  

  Seven Cuban athletes have left the Caribbean country’s delegation at the Santiago (Chile) Pan-American Games unwilling to return home, it was reported in the Chilean capital. According to international media covering the sporting event, six members of the women’s field hockey team and one hurdler were involved in the incident.