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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 ...
HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba's foreign ministry said it had summoned the top U.S. diplomat on the island to a meeting following protests on Sunday, accusing the U.S. embassy in Havana of seeking to ...
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 ...
The news outlet also said the Antonio Guiteras power plan was back online but running at limited capacity. People play dominoes at a table on the street in Havana during an island-wide blackout ...
Cuba's National Electric Union reported it had run a deficit of nearly 1600 megawatts with a demand approaching 3,200 MW around supper time on Thursday, leaving millions without lights, fans and ...
The Cuban dissident movement is a political movement in Cuba whose aim is to replace the current government with a liberal democracy. [1] According to Human Rights Watch, the Marxist-Leninist Cuban government represses nearly all forms of political dissent.
Cuba in three years has approved 11,355 private businesses. The sector's employees, together with 600,000 self-employed workers in Cuba, now account for 25% of jobs and 15% of imports, according ...