Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro has long been known in Cuba for his proximity to power rather than for public political ambitions. The 42-year-old grandson and former bodyguard of ex-president Raúl Castro, known
The United States and Cuba have entered a new and unexpected phase of diplomatic engagement, marked by an extraordinary meeting in Havana between the director of the CIA and Cuba’s top internal
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Cuba has announced that it has run out of fuel entirely, triggering a new phase in the island’s deepening economic and humanitarian crisis as prolonged blackouts, transportation breakdowns, and pressure on hospitals
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Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Washington offered $100 million in humanitarian aid to the island, describing the allegation as a
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The Spanish government has begun using a debt conversion programme with Cuba to fund humanitarian support, including the delivery of food to the island’s population amid a severe economic and social crisis.
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US President Donald Trump sparked international concern after declaring that the United States could “take Cuba almost immediately” once the conflict with Iran is resolved. The remarks were delivered during a private
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Sixty-five years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, newly declassified documents have shed stark new light on one of the most consequential intelligence failures of the Cold War, revealing how close
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In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid. Amongst
More Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a drive to restrict human rights and “tear up
More On 13 March 2026, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez gave a press conference in Havana, Cuba. The country has been wracked by a worsening fuel and electricity crisis produced by the long-standing illegal
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For Paki Wieland (1944-2026), who fought the cruelty of US imperialism all her adult life. The morning of my departure from José Martí Airport, named after the father of the nation, I
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