Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tens of thousands of Cubans marched in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana on Friday to protest longstanding sanctions in the waning weeks of the Biden administration, and as the island's ...
Cubans (Spanish: Cubanos) are the citizens and nationals of Cuba. The Cuban people have varied origins with the most spoken language being Spanish. The larger Cuban diaspora includes individuals that trace ancestry to Cuba and self-identify as Cuban but are not necessarily Cuban by citizenship. The United States has the largest Cuban population ...
Shortly after the 1959 revolution, Cuba rolled out the monthly ration book, known as the “libreta” (notebook), and provided all Cubans with heavily subsidized staples like eggs, rice, coffee ...
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services released details on Friday about the new parole program for Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans that was announced Thursday by President Joe Biden.
The Madrid, Spain-based Cuban Observatory of Human Rights, a non-government organization, said in a recent study that 88% of Cubans live in extreme poverty. Cuba’s economy grew only 1.5% in ...
Cuba blames the long-running U.S. trade embargo and Trump-era sanctions for fueling the economic crisis and the exodus of more than 400,000 Cubans leaving for the United States in the last two years.
In 2022, approximately 98 percent of Cubans apprehended at the border were processed in the United States under regular immigration law. As per the Cuban Adjustment Act, most of them will be eligible to apply for permanent resident status after one year in the United States. In November 2022, Cuba agreed to begin accepting U.S. deportation flights.
Cuban officials have blamed the energy crisis on a confluence of events, from increased US economic sanctions to disruptions caused by recent hurricanes and the impoverished state of the island ...