A boat with 17 to 20 migrants reached Fisher Island on a “go-fast” vessel Friday morning, and the U.S. Border Patrol said it might be part of a smuggling operation.
Alexei Leyva Céspedes, one of the 24 Cuban rafters who sought refuge on the American Shoal lighthouse on May 20 and were taken to the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo, has returned to his hometown of Puerto Padre.
In a half-hour interview held in conjunction with one-year anniversary of the opening of the Cuban embassy in Washington, the Cuban ambassador to Russia told Russian television that dialogue between U.S. and Cuban leaders may have been restored, but that the ‘major obstacles’ behind two generations of hostility remain the same.
One year after Cuba re-opened its embassy in Washington D.C., short-term political detentions in Cuba skyrocketed to 6,573 during the first six months this year, and longer term imprisonments rose from 70 last year to more than 100. It’s time for Latin America and the U.S. to stop celebrating the end of the Cold War in the region, and to start demanding that Cuba’s dictatorship allow basic freedoms on the island.
Mano a Mano is Cuba’s gay men’s chorus, a group of five singers visiting the United States for the first time and performing Saturday night in Fort Lauderdale with 80 members of the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida.
As many as 40 Cuban migrants arrived on Sugarloaf Key Monday night. The major landing combined with three other migrant arrivals since Sunday means that in less than two days, at least 60 refugees from Cuba arrived in the Keys.
The book focuses on 50 men who resisted the Cuban embargo on Harley Davidson motorcycles after a 1967 order issued by the Cuban government to bury all motorcycles and their parts in a large pit near a prison in Santiago de Cuba.
Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy at the center of a tense 2000 international custody battle that became a cause celebre and raised tensions on both sides of the Florida Straits, is a college graduate.
A North Carolina congressman is helping to lead the fight to halt international flights from the United States to Cuba. Republican Rep. Richard Hudson says he has serious concerns about the island nation’s ability to provide adequate security for U.S. citizens.
Known by everyone as Mima, Minerva Herrera was born in the Cuban city of Sancti Spiritus in 1929 and from an early age showed a talent for the decima campesina, a form of folk song,
President Rafael Correa's government has been criticized by human rights activists for evicting hundreds of Cuban protesters from a Quito park and returning 122 of them to Cuba within one week.
One of Cuba’s best-known human rights activists and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom says the Obama administration’s efforts to restore relations with the Cuban government undermine American values. Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, who spent more than nine years as a political prisoner in Cuba until 2011, tells U.S. lawmakers that oppression in Cuba continues and U.S. policies divide the Cuban and American people.
A group of U.S. lawmakers want to block the Obama administration’s efforts to open up the United States airways to flights from Cuba. Citing concerns about Cuba’s security infrastructure, four members of Congress – three Republicans and a Democrat – call for a halt to the recently announced commercial flights between the U.S. and the communist nation until a closer review of security measures at Cuba’s airports can be conducted.
As the process of normalizing relations with Cuba continues, the certified property claims of approximately 6,000 Americans remain unsettled. With diplomatic relations restored, some travel restrictions lifted and legislation in the pipeline that would lift constraints on trade, claimants, experts and lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned that reimbursement for expropriated property will be the casualty.
A group of U.S. lawmakers want to block the Obama administration’s efforts to open up the United States airways to flights from Cuba, citing concerns about Cuba’s security infrastructure.
A Fort Lauderdale man has digitized an 8mm family movie that shows his parents on the SS Homeric, one of the last cruises to Havana more than half a century ago.
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Family film clips shows one of the last U.S.-Cuba cruises
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Cuban fishermen call on more collaboration with U.S. to preserve marine life
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Cuban companies in Panama Papers
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Attorneys for lighthouse Cuban migrants discuss delay in judge's decision
