US-Cuba relations

The vote on Wednesday was 130-17, with 25 abstentions. The vote last year was 165-7, with 12 abstentions. Western countries like Germany, Italy and Latvia are among those that abstained for the first time in 34 years.

The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated six migrants to Cuba on Tuesday following two separate operations in the Florida Straits involving a rustic vessel and the rescue of a disabled fishing boat.

U.S. authorities announced Wednesday they had intercepted more than 600,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel headed for a state importer in Cuba in violation of a de facto Trump administration blockade on the island.

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla slammed U.S. foreign policy, accusing the Trump administration of carrying out a "ruthless siege" and imposing an illegal "energy blockade" designed to suffocate the island's economy.

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.

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.

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.

U.S. Rep.'s María Elvira Salazar, R-Miami, Mario Díaz-Balart R-Miami, Carlos A. Giménez, R-Miami, and Christopher H. Smith, R-New Jersey, sent a joint letter to top Trump Administration officials demanding immediate action against the Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos.

The blackout Monday was reported by Cuba's Electric Union, which said on X that the cause was under investigation.

Cuba's top diplomat to the United States says recent sanctions targeting the island's leadership and the indictment of former President Raúl Castro are a "pretext" for the Trump administration to persuade the American people to support a U.S. military intervention in Cuba.

Amid a deepening economic crisis and U.S. pressure, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, strongly pushed back against Trump administration allegations that the island poses a national security threat to the United States.

Adys Lastres Morera, a Cuban national and lawful U.S. permanent resident living in Miami, was taken into custody this week by ICE agents because the government says she “poses a threat to the United States and undermines American foreign policy interests.”