Cuba suffered its second nationwide blackout in a matter of days late Friday, another sign that the communist-controlled island is sliding deeper into economic collapse amid tightening US sanctions and renewed pressure from the Trump administration.
The Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel's recent admission that Cuba's generalized price caps failed to contain inflation, generated shortages, encouraged illegal markets, and reduced tax revenues is another confirmation of a much older economic le
Three weeks after CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with officials in Havana, reopening a political backchannel between Washington and the Cuban government, a rare military-to-military meeting unfolded at the edge of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo B
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In a sign that the US is preparing for yet another evil war, Marco Rubio is now claiming that Cuba poses a "national security threat" to the United States, saying the likelihood of a peaceful agreement is "not high".
The Cuban crisis is becoming far more dangerous than most people understand because this is no longer simply about Cuba. This is about the global war cycle accelerating exactly as the models projected years ago.
In what appears to be a carefully calibrated show of force, the U.S deployed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its accompanying strike group into Caribbean waters this week...
As the Trump Administration sinks further into the mire of its ill-advised war on Iran, the "victory" of its quick snatch of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro is leading it to seek another easy "win."
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on May 17 said the United States is building a "fraudulent case" ?to justify economic war and eventual military intervention against the Caribbean island nation.
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The federal government's moves to indict former Cuban President Raúl Castro will ramp up pressure for regime change in Cuba and could be a prelude to a U.S. military operation...
The United States has renewed a $100 million aid offer to Cuba as the island faces worsening blackouts and a deepening economic crisis, intensifying pressure on Havana amid growing tensions over sanctions, fuel shortages and political reform.
President Trump signed an executive order expanding US sanctions against Cuba that target "people, entities and affiliates that support the Cuban government's security apparatus...
The Trump administration's Cuba pressure campaign accelerated this past week, with Trump signing an executive order Friday that broadens U.S. sanctions against Havana and opens the door to severe penalties on foreign firms operating key nodes in the
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Cuba confirmed on April 20 that it recently held direct talks with U.S. officials in Havana, marking a rare diplomatic engagement as tensions persist over Washington's long-standing economic restrictions on the communist nation.
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According to media reports, it appears increasingly likely that as soon as they put their Iran intervention to rest, President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment will initiate a military attack on Cuba.
US officials have urged Cuba to transition from socialism to a market-based economy and compensate American citizens and corporations whose assets were seized in the 1960s, US news outlets reported on Friday and Saturday, citing sources familiar with