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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Cuba on 11 March 2020 when three Italian tourists tested positive for the virus.
In the 2018 parliamentary elections, 80% of voters voted for the full list and only 20% selected individual candidates. [2]Miguel Díaz-Canel succeeded Raúl Castro, brother of Fidel Castro, as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba on 19 April 2021, marking the end of the Castro era in Cuba.
In late April 2022, the first high-level talks between Cuba and the United States since 2018 focused primarily on reestablishing regular migration channels. The Cuban government requested the US honor the agreement to issue 20,000 immigrant visas annually, while the American government asked Havana to accept Cuban deportees who arrived illegally.
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]
Vistar is distributed via El Paquete in PDF form. According to its founder, Vistar's website now has 50,000 unique visitors from Cuba and abroad. The webzine is produced in Havana under a Dominican publisher, which allows the magazine to be legally produced in Cuba. The publication focuses mainly on popular music and cultural phenomena within Cuba.