Cuba/USA

Less than 24 hours after the President of the United States, Donald Trump, declared that the oil blockade on Cuba would no longer be enforced, his White House spokesperson insisted that…
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A tanker flying the Russian flag has started offloading about 700,000 barrels of crude oil at Cuba’s Matanzas terminal, according to maritime tracking data. The shipment marks the first…
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The U.S. military is not rehearsing for an invasion of Cuba or actively preparing to militarily take over the island, ​ Francis Donovan, head of the U.S. Southern Command, told…
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… I am now every day in danger of giving my life for my country, and for my duty—since I understand it and have the resolve to carry it out—to prevent, in time, with Cuba’s…
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Álvaro Fernández recently reminded us in Progreso Weekly that once upon a time, among Cuban exiles, the word dialogue turned into something worse than an ordinary pejorative. Beginning…
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Tuesday condemned US President Donald Trump’s open threat to forcibly seize control of the island nation and vowed that any such aggression would be…
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For decades in Miami’s Cuban exile community, one word carried the weight of betrayal: dialogue. To suggest that the United States should talk to the Cuban government was not merely…
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For weeks, rumors circulated in Washington, Miami, and Havana that quiet contacts were happening between the United States and Cuba. Some analysts even suggested that the Cuban…
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Almost a month after Trump’s Executive Order 14380, which imposed an oil blockade on Cuba, the situation can be summarized as a maze of mixed signals, with no immediate solution or…
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For more than two generations, except for a brief détente under Obama, the United States has pursued an escalating campaign of economic warfare against Cuba: a near-total trade embargo,…
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