Cuba

Lawyers and families across the U.S. are seeing more people being detained at immigration appointments, striking fear into the immigrant community.

A group of Latino Miami-Dade Democrats is calling out “four traitorous Republican Cuban-American politicians” — with a billboard ad campaign — for failing to protect tens of thousands of immigrants in South Florida from being deported under the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies.

The administration has begun to pull the U.S. visas of foreign officials in countries that pay the Cuban government for doctors and nurses.

Yaquelin Dominguez-Nieves, 26, who had been living in Sebring, Florida, was sentenced in Miami federal court, according to court records. She pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to smuggle people into the U.S.

Fishermen floating on “corchos,” makeshift rafts have become common on the waters off the coast of Havana. It is an innovative way to fish in a country where it’s complicated — if not impossible — to access a regular fishing boat.

“The murderous dictatorship in Cuba is on life-support, the regime cannot even keep the lights on, and America must stand with the Cuban people to topple this pathetic gang, once and for all," Gimenez wrote in a letter to a top administration official.

The federal judge's order also bars the Agency for Global Media from terminating grant funding for its broadcast outlets, including Doral-based Radio Martí.

“My husband, a father living in the United States, married to an American citizen with no criminal record, has been unjustly detained by ICE,” wrote the family of Eduardo Nuñez Gonzalez, a Cuban man with Spanish citizenship.

Jhoan Bastidas is just starting to make sense of it all. How he is back in the once-prosperous hometown in Venezuela that he left as a teenager.

The massive blackout Friday is the fourth in the last six months during a severe economic crisis affecting the Caribbean country. The director of electricity at Cuba's Ministry of Energy and Mines says power was already being generated Saturday to support vital services such as hospitals.

The government-run media radio station first began broadcasting in 1985. Later, TV Martí, along with a digital website, were launched to beam Spanish-language news into Cuba.

As the National Endowment Democracy sues to unfreeze the congressionally-approved funds, board member Mel Martinez tells WLRN the nonprofit has cut 70% of staff and stopped most grants in work such as supporting political prisoners and pushing for free press and elections. He says it's "unfortunate" they had to name Secretary of State Marco Rubio — a former supporter — in the lawsuit.