Cuba on Edge
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President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.
Cuba will begin allowing transactions in dollars and other foreign currencies as it tries to stabilize an economy that’s been crushed by US sanctions, sweeping power outages and decades of mismanagement.
Amid an economic crisis of devastating proportions, the Cuban government is making official a "partial" dollarization of the country's economy, allowing the private sector and other entities to once again open dollar bank accounts and use the U.
Protests are intensifying across Cuba as residents endure blackouts lasting up to 20 hours, with the island’s power grid suffering repeated partial and total collapses. Crowds have gathered in the streets throughout the week,
Cuba’s top court says a former economy minister was sentenced to life in prison for espionage, in the highest-profile case against an ex-official in recent years on the island
Cuba denied it had reached out to the United States about what the region would look like without President Nicolas Maduro leading Venezuela, calling the media report "absurd and false."
Protests are intensifying across Cuba after days of prolonged blackouts, with residents flooding the streets, banging pots and pans, and even setting fires as they demand electricity, water, and food.
The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it was terminating “all categorical family reunification parole (FRP) programs for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti,
A blackout has hit the western half of Cuba, including Havana, leaving millions of people without power on an island struggling with chronic outages blamed on a crumbling electric grid