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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 ...
Cuba’s electrical grid shut down on Friday, putting the country into a blackout after the failure of one of the island’s major power plants, according to its energy ministry.
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 ...
Cuba marked n Monday the first anniversary of some unusual demonstrations that President Miguel Díaz Canel recalls as a defeat "soft coup." (July 11, 2022) Cuba marks 1 year since controversial ...
Cuba has been listed as "not free" each year since the reports started in 2009. Cuba has been listed as an "Internet Enemy" by Reporters Without Borders since the list was created in 2006. [2] The level of Internet filtering in Cuba is not categorized by the OpenNet Initiative due to a lack of data. [4]
Cuba is working to recover after Hurricane Rafael hit the island on Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center said at 4:15 p.m. ET the storm struck the Cuban province of Artemisa just east of Playa ...
Some analysts have attributed Biden’s cautious handling of Cuba issues to his concern that a softened approach to Havana could hurt him politically among strongly anti-communist Cuban American ...
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 ...