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Montevideo, April 18th 2026 - 11:29 UTC

Tag: Cuba

  • Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 09:23 UTC

    Cuban’s misery and darkness increase with blackouts and lack of fuel

    Havana has blamed the 62-year-old trade embargo with the U.S., which makes it difficult to import fuel, for the energy shortages

    The Cuban energy crisis situation with its frequent blackouts and fuel shortages means increased economic hardship leading to social unrest, according to international news agencies reports. Blaming the US embargo is the common reaction from the government, but also are an aging infrastructure, lack of investment, plus insufficient supply of fuel add to the people’s misery, living in darkness and uncertainty.

  • Monday, November 25th 2024 - 09:06 UTC

    Cuba takes delivery of Brazilian aid for hurricane victims

    Rivas underlined the importance of bilateral ties between Cuba and Brazil

    Cuban authorities received this weekend a shipment from Brazil of US$ 86,000 worth of humanitarian help in the wake of hurricanes hitting the Caribbean island in recent days. A similar package was sent from the South American country during the Covid-19 crisis, it was also explained, representing Brazil's commitment to cooperation and friendship between both nations.

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

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

    Also granted BRICS associate member status were Algeria, Belarus, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam

    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

    Díaz-Canel had to cancel his trip to the BRICS Summit due to the power shortage coupled with the weather crisis

    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

    Díaz-Canel blamed the US blockade for Cuba's poor maintenance of its electricity-generating equipment

    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

    Pentagon Spokeswoman Sabrina Singh insisted that the Russian mission did “not pose a threat to the US”

    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

    Russian propaganda often dubs the Admiral Gorshkov “the invisible frigate”

    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

    Rocha was discovered by undercover FBI agents and arrested in December last year in Miami

    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 World Food Program said it received an unprecedented official request from the Cuban government for help providing powdered milk to 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

    Juanita had to flee Cuba in the 1960s after conspiring against her brother's revolution

    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.