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Commentary: As Cubans flee, US travel operators peddle a tone-deaf, pastel view of an island paradise

MIAMI — I believe in Americans’ right to travel anywhere in the globe we wish.

Miami Herald

Cuban president to get Mexico's highest medal for foreigners

In the latest chapter in Mexico's love-fest with Cuba, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel will be awarded Mexico's highest medal when he visits the southern Mexico city of Campeche on Saturday

The Independent UK

Cuba wants Russia’s advice on market reforms as Putin seeks more trade with the island

After much hesitation about how to deal with small and medium-size private enterprises it authorized in 2021, the Cuban government is turning to Russia for help with market reforms on the island through a partnership with a Russian think tank headed by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska, as the two countries…

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Desperation is driving latest surge of Cuban rafters arriving in the Florida Keys

In an end-of-year video message for social media, Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, recently acknowledged that 2022 was “one of the most challenging of Cuba’s revolutionary history.” He then admitted that 2023 “could be even more difficult,” but that, he added, would be “an attractive challenge for all who feel revolutionary.”

Miami Herald

Cubans search for holiday food amid deepening crisis

Scarcity and economic turmoil are nothing new to Cuba, but soaring inflation and deepening shortages have made holiday shopping even more difficult for Cubans this year

The Independent UK

Cuba's president to visit China Nov 24-26

Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel will visit China from Nov. 24-26, Chinese state media reported on Monday.

Reuters

As Cubans demand freedom, President Díaz-Canel says he will not tolerate ‘illegitimate’ protests

As residents in Havana and other cities continue demonstrating against the government and its response to Hurricane Ian, security forces have beaten and arrested some protesters, and Cuba’s handpicked president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, warned the population that “counterrevolutionary” behavior like blocking the streets will be punished.

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Protests continue in Cuba after days without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian

Cubans in several neighborhoods in Havana and other cities took to the streets again on Friday, banging pots and pans and demanding the restoration of electrical service as they had done Thursday, after a failure in Cuba’s dilapidated power grid left the country in near total darkness since Tuesday.

Miami Herald

Cuba approves same-sex marriage in a referendum

Cubans have approved a sweeping "family law" code that will allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt as well as redefining rights for children and grandparents, officials said.

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Cubans said yes to same-sex marriage, but referendum results sent a message to the government

Six decades after Fidel Castro imprisoned gay men in forced labor camps and later sent them to Florida during the Mariel boatlift, Cuban same-sex couples will be able to marry and adopt children, after voters on the island ratified a new family code with 67% of the vote in a…

Miami Herald

Even as storm Ian approaches, Cuba focuses on controversial referendum on gay marriage

Cuba, which is holding a high-stakes, islandwide referendum on gay marriage and other family rights on Sunday, has downplayed preparations as Tropical Storm Ian approaches, even as projections for the storm have it hitting the western tip of the island as a major Category 3 hurricane Monday night into Tuesday.

Miami Herald

Cuba quietly releases from prison a Cuban American teacher convicted of espionage

The Cuban government has quietly commuted the sentence of Alina López Miyares, a Cuban American teacher in Miami who was sent to prison after she was accused of espionage in 2017, in an unusual gesture that might signal Havana’s willingness to remove a diplomatic roadblock to further engagement with the…

Miami Herald

Cuba has not officially requested US help to put out oil fire, State Department says

U.S. firefighting experts have provided technical advice to Cuban officials regarding the fire at an oil storage facility at the port of Matanzas, but that is as far as the cooperation has gone because the Cuban government has not requested other types of assistance from the United States, the State…

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Rubio urges FBI to investigate Cuba’s ties to US-based anti-embargo group Bridges of Love

MIAMI — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is urging the FBI to open an “immediate” investigation into a U.S. anti-embargo group whose members recently met Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, claiming that they are acting as unregistered foreign agents of the Cuban government.

Reason

Cuban Exiles, Lawmakers Commemorate Anniversary of July 11 Protests

One year after major pro-democracy protests swept the communist island, dissidents and leaders in the Cuban-American community remain hopeful that change is coming.

Los Angeles Times

Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela are not at the Summit of the Americas — but their dissidents are

LOS ANGELES — It took two Cuban intelligence officers to carry art historian and activist Carolina Barrero, her hands and feet cuffed, from the protest she was staging this year outside the Culture Ministry in Havana.

Los Angeles Times

Cuba says it won’t attend Summit of the Americas in LA after Biden administration snub

WASHINGTON — The president of Cuba announced Wednesday that his country will not attend next month’s Summit of the Americas, a major conference to take place in Los Angeles, after the U.S. refused to extend a proper invitation.

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Fabiola Santiago: Cuba blackmails the US with exodus. Biden responds with ill-timed, mostly weak policy

After promising voters he would take a fresh look at U,S,-Cuba policy, President Joe Biden has delivered, 16 months into his term, ill-timed, mostly mediocre change that portends to help the Cuban people.

Miami Herald

Cuba decrees a day of official mourning for the death of 45 people in hotel explosion

The Cuban government decreed one day of official mourning starting Friday morning after search and rescue efforts at the site of a powerful explosion in the Saratoga Hotel in Old Havana ended, bringing the death toll to 45.

Miami Herald

Authorities release names of the 26 dead in explosion in Cuban hotel

Efforts to find victims trapped by the rubble of the Hotel Saratoga in Havana, which was rocked by a powerful explosion Friday, continued throughout the day Saturday, bringing the death toll to 26.

France 24

Rescuers find at least one survivor after deadly Havana hotel blast

Rescuers in Cuba’s capital searched through the night to find survivors of an explosion that killed at least 25 people and injured dozens at a luxury hotel that once hosted dignitaries and celebrities, including Beyoncé and Jay-Z.

Evening Standard

Havana explosion: At least 22 dead and dozens injured following blast at hotel

The blast is believed to have occurred due to a gas leak in the hotel

The Independent UK

Rescuers look for victims at Cuba hotel after blast kills 22

Rescuers in Cuba’s capital are still digging through the rubble of a luxury hotel after it was rattled by an explosion that killed at least 22 people and injured more than 60

Miami Herald

18 dead after explosion rips through five-star Hotel Saratoga in Havana

Eighteen people, including a child and a pregnant woman, were killed in a powerful explosion that destroyed much of the Hotel Saratoga, a luxury hotel in the historic center of Havana, and left several people injured, Cuban authorities said.

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