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The Ñico López refinery in Havana

Against Cuba, a Fetid, Arbitrary, and Despotic Obsession

News from Cuba | Thursday, 31 July 2025

In the port of Havana, there is a ship with tons of rice, anchored and waiting to unload. It may not get to unload, because in order to do so, it must receive a signal from the commercial center that hired it, indicating that it has received $60,000 in payment. ... read more

Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)

News from Cuba | Thursday, 31 July 2025

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared upon taking office that the Americas were the United States’ sphere of influence and they would ratchet up pressure on a symbol of resistance to that view, socialist Cuba, already reeling from harsh sanctions imposed during the president’s previous term, ... read more

Cuba brings hope to Alzheimer’s patients and their families

News from Cuba | Thursday, 15 May 2025

Dr Lauren Collins reports on the positive results coming from new drugs that the world hears little about because they are developed in Cuba With ageing populations increasingly common around the world, degenerative brain disease is on the increase. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, has a devastating impact ... read more

Pic captions SNTS General Secretary Santiago Badía with colleague in the MEDICUBA warehouse with the latest consignment of aid

Life-saving medical aid arrives in Cuba

News from Cuba | Thursday, 24 April 2025

Rob Miller, CSC director, reports on the latest delivery of Cuba Vive medical aid, and plans for future shipments Two consignments of Cuba Vive medical aid have now arrived in Cuba. An emergency delivery of urgent paediatric supplies, which was sent by plane in January, is already in use in ... read more

Naval blockade of Cuba

News from Cuba | Monday, 14 April 2025

No shipping company was willing to make the direct voyage to the port of Mariel in Cuba for fear of US sanctions, according to a report published by the daily Granma which addressed specific examples of the US blockade of the island. A test container was sent to evaluate the ... read more

Despite appearances, the defunding of USAID is no help to Cuba

News from Cuba | Monday, 14 April 2025

Interviewed on March 2, Cuban Vice-Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío reacted to the Trump administration’s move to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He granted that “some of these [USAID] programs do benefit some countries … [but the agency] has been employed [also] to foment a fake opposition, ... read more

A Cuban walks on a street during a general blackout in Havana, March 14 2025

Cuba restores pockets of electricity after major power outage

News from Cuba | Monday, 17 March 2025

Cuban authorities worked around the clock to restore pockets of electricity back to the country today. This comes after millions of people were left without power on Saturday after a failure of the nation’s electric grid left the island in the dark the previous night. The massive blackout is the fourth in ... read more

Cuba sends doctors… And the United States?

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Many people and authorities have spoken out loud and clear in recent hours against the recent measures taken by the United States government, which seek to intimidate this bastion of solidarity: our medical collaboration. And they have done so because, as Fidel said, our country is "capable of sending the ... read more

Trump resumes his crusade against Cuba

News from Cuba | Monday, 3 March 2025

After Joe Biden’s cynical last-minute clemency for Cuba, the new administration has quickly returned to maximum subversive tactics. This socialist island needs our support now more than ever, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS Earlier this month, the 20th Latin America Conference convened under the looming shadow of the new Trump administration.On February 8, ... read more

Firmness and Dignity in the Face of the Outrage

News from Cuba | Saturday, 1 February 2025

Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs On 31 January 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he communicated to the U.S. Congress the revocation of the suspension of the possibility of filing lawsuits in U.S. courts under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. Likewise, it approved the reinstatement of the ... read more