Cuba

COMMENTARY Cuba should not be on the U.S.'s state sponsors of terrorism list. Dissidents should not be in Cuba's prisons. A new deal gives Havana and President Trump a better opportunity to fix that.

President Joe Biden has notified Congress of his intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, the White House announced, as part of a deal facilitated by the Catholic Church to free political prisoners on the island. Democratic and Republican South Florida lawmakers condemned the decision.

The secret mission left the smallest number of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay since the day the detention center opened in 2002.

A decade since the United States and Cuba restored diplomatic relations — which many believed would transform the island — Cuba is in its worst crisis since Fidel Castro took power.

It was Christmas Eve when the 18-year-old finally was coming home from Cuba. He and his father had been imprisoned there for the past 20 months along with about 1,200 other men.

A new permanent exhibit at the American Museum of The Cuban Diaspora immerses visitors in the history of Cuba’s revolution, telling the stories of Cuban exiles as well as those who lost their lives fighting Fidel Castro's regime.

Eighteen white-bearded men who resemble the late U.S. author Ernest Hemingway have arrived in Havana for the weekend to visit some of the his favorite places when he lived on the island decades ago.

After a nationwide blackout left millions without electricity for several hours in Cuba, the power grid has been restored, authorities said, adding that scheduled power outages will now resume.

The blackout, on Wednesday, affected the entire nation, leaving millions without electricity and forcing authorities to suspend classes and work activities indefinitely.

Non-governmental organizations monitoring Cuban prisons are demanding an investigation into the death of a man imprisoned since 2021 after being arrested for participating in historic protests against shortages and blackouts.

When it comes to Cuba’s history, we know a great deal about the conditions that pushed the country into the path of revolution. But, we hardly ever hear about those who lived through those changes. In his latest book, The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga, Cuban American author Lisandro Perez tells the story of Cuba through the lives of his ancestors.

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. Marco Rubio as his secretary of state is likely to bring far more attention to Latin America and the Caribbean, a region often historically overlooked by U.S. policy makers, two experts on Latin America and the Caribbean told WLRN’s South Florida Roundup.