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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.
Storm causes at least 6 deaths in Cuba, where a long power outage is raising tempers By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MILEXSY DURAN Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's capital remained largely paralyzed on Monday and the rest of the island braced for the fourth night of a massive blackout that has generated a handful of small protests and a stern ...
Cuban state media put the death toll from the disaster at three people, in a post on X. The building collapse is the latest in a series of disasters that have beset Cuba, including a gas explosion ...
The current crime wave in Cuba has been linked to the ongoing economic crisis, which economists believe equals or has surpassed that of the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, when stories ...
The pictures have been widely used by government accounts and state media to illustrate the bravery of those firefighters that initially fought to contain the flames, calling them “heroes.”
U.S. President Joe Biden commutes the death sentences of 37 out of the 44 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment. The exceptions are Dylann Roof, Robert Gregory Bowers, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who received death sentences for terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder-related crimes, as well as all four prisoners on US Military death row.
The Matanzas oil storage facility explosion was an explosion on 5 August 2022 of an oil storage facility in Matanzas, Cuba.It resulted in the death of at least one person, injuring 80 to 125 others, and leaving 17 firefighters missing.
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 ...