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Cuba Condemns U.S. Military Presence in The Caribbean Sea
U.S. Marines. X/ @BrunoRguezP August 18, 2025 Hour: 9:31 am On Monday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced the presence of U.S. “naval and air military forces” in the southern Caribbean and rejected Washington’s claim that the...

New Report Associating Sanctions with Death Has Implications for Cuba
August 8, 2025 The new report from the UK’s Lancet medical journal does not mention Cuba, but its main finding – that sanctions are lethal – clarifies to what extent and how it is that the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba is war against Cuba. The...

‘Does anything surprise on me what they were doing?’ Immigration chief reveals what he found in aftermath of Biden
President Donald J. Trump prepares to sign a plaque placed along the border wall Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, at the Texas-Mexico border near Alamo, Texas. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead) When U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...

Turning Pages, Turning Up: Tackling Absenteeism Through Reading Culture
By Felix Lloyd Across the nation, educators are facing a growing crisis of chronic absenteeism. And while interventions often focus on remediation or outreach, one Title I school in Kentucky tried a different solution—running school-wide reading...
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Farmers Face Whiplash as Trump Immigration Shifts Keep Ag in Limbo
When it comes to the intersection of illegal immigration and agriculture, uncertainty has abounded under the second Trump administration. From targeted crackdowns on migrants with criminal backgrounds, to surprise raids on the ag sector, to course...

Friends of Cuba in the Netherlands demand end to blockade
Meeting in The Hague within the framework of the III Annual Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, the participants recognized “the resistance and courage of the Cuban people”, which for more than six decades has faced “a sustained and renewed economic...

Cuban Revolution’s mark in human history exalted
“If there was an event in the 20th century that will forever mark that history,” it is this one, “which marks the course of its destiny, and whose value is measured by its relevance, because it does not leave us indifferent, as if it were a...

Among the most valuable: children
Photo: UNICEF Cuba Social media echoed instantly. The news was broadcast on TV. When the victim is a child, repudiation multiplies. The particular fact is not our object of analysis; whether it was accidental or not, the mental state of the...

Cuban Embassy hosts book talk on Fidel Castro
The Cuban Embassy in Seoul hosted a special book talk on Monday commemorating the 99th anniversary of Fidel Castro's birth. In his remarks at the event, Cuban Ambassador to Korea Claudio Monzon spoke about Castro’s legacy. He pointed out that many...

In Havana, a noble residence becomes a cultural space where time remains visible
In the heart of Havana, Cuba, Infraestudio has delicately traced a new mark on the timeline of a 19th-century noble residence, long disused and in ruins, now converted into a contemporary art centre. In keeping with the natural transformative...

Uneac to celebrate anniversary Loyal to Cuba and Fidel’s legacy
At times when we are so attacked, from an economic and cultural point of view, the UNEAC must remain that platform of thought where writers and artists have the responsibility to save Cuban culture and nation, the president of the organization,...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says more than 1.6 million illegal immigrants are voluntarily leaving the U.S.
The Donald Trump administration, with the support of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has made a significant declaration: more than 1.6 million illegal immigrants have voluntarily left the country since January 20, 2025. In less than 200...

In the Midst of Escapes, the Cuban Government Highlights the Gold Medal for Rowing Won at the Pan American Junior Games
Cuba is in ninth place in the medal table with two gold medals, two silver medals, and three bronze medals. Leduar Suárez, Roberto Carlos Paz, Henry Heredia and Adel Gutiérrez won the gold medal in rowing. / Jit The quartet, in addition to Paz,...

For Requesting ‘Unfair Sentences’ a Prosecutor From Artemisa Is Added to the List of Cuban Repressors
Niurka Margarita Tabares Valdés requested up to 10 years in prison for three Cuba Primero activists. Niurka Margarita Tabares Valdés in an interview with the official press in 2019. / Attorney General’s Office 14ymedio, Havana, 12 August 2025 —...

Russia Proposes a New Silicon Valley in Cuba on the ‘Island of Blackouts’
The technology hub would host 12,000 experts and 3,000 students on the Isle of Youth, which generates only 18 MW despite having an installed capacity of 48 MW. The technology center would occupy some 450 hectares and would include offices,...

Tens of thousands of immigrants in Pa. and NJ will lose Medicaid
Tens of thousands of refugees, victims of human trafficking and domestic violence, and others who legally immigrated to Pennsylvania and New Jersey will lose Medicaid coverage next fall, when new eligibility rules established under President...

Cuban Doctors in Angola to Sue over Theft of Their Dollars
against the Cuban military’s Antex Corporation The tone rose during a tense two-hour meeting in Luanda: “We don’t want virtual money; they are scamming us.” The tone rose during a tense two-hour meeting in Luanda: “We don’t want virtual money;...

Mass. immigration advocates sue to reinstate parole for asylum seekers
BOSTON (WHDH) - Immigration advocates have filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts challenging the Trump administration’s termination of a key asylum program through the CBP One app. The lawsuit seeks to reinstate parole protections for...

Mark Cuban warns Donald Trump he will run for President in 2028, but only if he does one thing
There may well be a shift in the political waters coming to the United States as billionaire entrepreneur and former Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban admitted he could be forced to run in 2028 if Donald Trump does. Whilst the former Dallas Mavericks...

Cuban Mission to the UN Pays tribute to …
Details Written by PL Published: 17 August 2025 Hits: 50 Representatives of several US solidarity organizations paid tribute to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, at Cuba's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in this...