The Latest Breaking News from Cuba

Brain-eating amoeba killed boy after swim in Lake Mead, officials say

MIAMI — The mass exodus from Cuba took an unusual twist Friday, when a pilot in a Soviet-era biplane took off from the island just 90 miles south of Key West and landed on an isolated, mostly forgotten airstrip in the middle of the Everglades.

Paris (AFP) - Sixty years ago the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Washington (AFP) - For 60 years, the Cuban missile crisis has loomed both as a frightening lesson on how close the world came to nuclear doomsday -- and how skillful leadership averted it.

Cuba on Wednesday said the decades-old U.S. trade embargo has been causing record financial losses and untold human suffering in recent months, at a time when Cuba was also battling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Ian.

Hurricane Ian disrupted the lives of many millions across the United States and Cuba during its rampage through the Atlantic.

The United States says it has offered critical emergency humanitarian assistance to the people of Cuba to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian, an unusual but not unprecedented move after years of bilateral tensions

The U.S. Agency for International Development, the government branch that mobilizes humanitarian aid around the world but which Cuban authorities have accused of being a surrogate for the CIA, is taking the unprecedented step of providing $2 million to help the victims of hurricane Ian in Cuba, which damaged more…

The money will be used in work with independent organizations like the Red Cross and not go through the Cuban government