The Latest Breaking News from Cuba

Elizabeth Meizoso was a happy toddler who liked to pose with her mom’s sunglasses. She is seen dressed all in white with a bow headband in one picture. In another, she is driving a toy red car. Smiling relatives hold her while taking selfies posted on Facebook. She had just…

Eighteen former Latin American and Caribbean leaders have signed a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden asking the United States to remove its six-decade embargo on Cuba in the wake of devastation inflicted on the island by Hurricane Ian

A boat off northern Cuba traveling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban officials said Saturday.

Hurricane Ian caused an island-wide blackout when it tore through western Cuba in late September

MIAMI — Not three weeks had passed since Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made headlines all over the country after taking credit for sending planes full of mostly undocumented Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard when U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar — a Cuban American freshman congresswoman from Miami — addressed…

MIAMI — Becoming a U.S. citizen was not at the top of Ovidio Rodriguez’s to-do list this year, though the Hialeah resident recently became eligible to apply after leaving Cuba five years ago.

In 1962, a Soviet submarine commander nearly ordered a nuclear launch, newly translated accounts show, with modern parallels over Ukraine all too clear

"The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers" by Andrew T. Huse, Barbara C. Cruz and Jeff Houck; University Press of Florida (162 pages, $24.95)

MIAMI — Spanish-language social media and so-called influencers on YouTube and other platforms are rapidly becoming the chief source of news and information about Cuba among Cubans and Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade County, displacing the old standbys of radio and television, Florida International University’s new Cuba poll has found.