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March 17 – 2024 Cuban protests: Hundreds of protestors in several cities demonstrate against food shortages, electricity outages and political repression. [4]May 15 – The United States removes Cuba from its list of countries deemed less than fully cooperative against violent groups.
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 ...
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 ...
Despite the State Department’s assurances, Cuban-American members of Congress from Miami immediately criticized Cuba’s removal from the “not fully coopeating” list, fearing it might be a ...
The grid collapsed on Wednesday afternoon as Rafael tore across Cuba with top winds of 115 mph (185 kph), damaging homes, uprooting trees and toppling telephone poles. The hurricane had moved 155 ...
HAVANA, October 4(Reuters) - Cuba on Wednesday said it had detected "noticeable growth" in the flow of its migrants across irregular routes north through Central America in the past weeks and ...
The State Department had cited Cuba as a “not fully cooperating country” in 2022, saying that Cuba had refused to engage with Colombia in the extradition of members of the National Liberation ...
Cuba, [c] officially the Republic of Cuba, [d] is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet.