Cuba

The Treasury and State departments announced sanctions on Thursday against 10 state-owned mining, metals, and construction companies and the leadership of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, or ICAP.

Fidel Castro would have turned 100 on Thursday and his influence still looms over Cuba. Posters and slogans bearing his image are common and the International Book Fair is dedicated to his memory. Supporters praise his legacy of dignity and policies in culture, education and health. However, Cuba faces a deepening crisis due to U.S. sanctions and economic challenges.

Cuba's power blackouts have been stretching sometimes for days, so Cubans are planning their lives around the lights turning back on. Those small gasps of relief may be for just a few minutes or hours — and at any time of the day or night.

For years, many Cubans hoping to leave the island looked to the United States. Now, with legal pathways largely closed, a growing number are heading to Brazil instead.

The Coral Gables Museum will present Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: Estamos conectados, a documentary screening by Cuban filmmaker Ernesto Fundora Hernández highlighting the life, art, and political persecution of one of Cuba's most prominent dissident artists and musicians.

Cuba has held a traditional rally to commemorate one of the revolution’s most important anniversaries but former President Raúl Castro was conspicuously absent.

The Catholic Church organization Caritas says hundreds of boxes of humanitarian aid from the U.S. are being distributed in two towns near Havana.

The decision will go into effect on Friday and represents a significant blow to Cuba's tourism industry, which has been struggling under new U.S. sanctions.

A cargo plane packed with food and hygiene kits has left Miami for Cuba as part of the U.S. government’s humanitarian assistance efforts for the people of the island nation.

A State Department report claims Cuba remains the prime "launch pad" of leftist, anti-American subversion and "upheavals" inside the U.S. and from abroad. But even Miami's Cuban exiles seem resigned that the charges don't likely mean imminent U.S. military action.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara co-founded a group of artists called the San Isidro Movement and shared a Grammy for the song “Patria y Vida” — “Fatherland and Life” — which became an anthem for Cuba’s political opposition.

Cuba is suffering another nationwide blackout, leaving the entire country without power. It's the third incident in two weeks, highlighting the island's vulnerable grid under a U.S. oil embargo.