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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Almarales is one of the 59 known victims of feminicides in Cuba in 2023, according to records kept by Cuban independent groups since 2019 in the absence of public government statistics.
It also monitors Cuba’s cyberspace to punish people like activist Leandro Pupo Garcés, who was recently tried in a court in Holguín, in eastern Cuba, and is facing a four-year sentence for ...
Cuban lab chemist Deisy Herrera was crushed when her two sons left the island in search of a better life. It is no secret that Cuba`s economic crisis has prompted a record-breaking exodus of its ...
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.
The pope didn’t say a word about Cuba’s violent repression of the July 11 protesters or the fact that Cuba’s dictatorship has not allowed a free election in more than six decades.