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2 missing after migrant boat with 21 aboard capsizes off the Florida Keys

MIAMI — U.S. Coast Guard crews launched a search for two missing people the agency says were among a group of 21 whose migrant boat capsized Wednesday off the Florida Keys.

Miami Herald

Cuban artists blocked from once-promising NFT trading sites

Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, have offered Cuban artists a lifeline during the pandemic, which wreaked havoc on the island country's tourism industry and, subsequently, its art sales

The Independent UK

DHS accidentally informed Cuba that deportees had sought protection in US

The Department of Homeland Security inadvertently tipped off the Cuban government this month that some of the immigrants the agency sought to deport to the island nation had asked the U.S. for protection from persecution or torture, officials said Monday.

Los Angeles Times

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Coast Guard searching for nine people off Florida after Cuban migrant boat capsizes

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for nine people from Cuba who are missing after their migrant vessel overturned off Lake Worth Beach in Palm Beach County early Sunday morning.

Miami Herald

Did the CIA use Cuban exiles in plot involving Oswald? Questions remain as Biden withholds JFK records

Almost six decades after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination while he was riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas, questions linger about who else, besides Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused gunman, might have been involved in what a 1979 congressional investigation report called a “conspiracy” to kill the American president.

Miami Herald

Cuba sees mass exodus to US amid blackouts, shortages

Cuba is seeing its biggest exodus since Fidel Castro took power in 1959. According to US government data, over the past year nearly 250,000 Cubans have emigrated to the United States. The figure represents more than 2 percent of the island's population and more than 4 percent of its working…

France 24

Rubio urges US to deny request for undersea internet cable connecting Miami and Cuba

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is urging the Federal Communications Commission to deny a request to extend a submarine internet cable connection between South Florida and Cuba, the first of its kind, because of the risk that the Cuban government could use it for intelligence purposes.

Miami Herald

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‘Multiple migrant landings’: Feds report big jump in people coming to Florida from Cuba

MIAMI — Border Patrol agents in the Florida Keys are responding to almost nonstop migrant landings this week that continued through Tuesday morning.

Miami Herald

Cuban Coast Guard rescues would-be migrants adrift off of Havana

A makeshift boat loaded with Cubans drifted just off Havana's seaside drive on Monday before those aboard were rescued by the Cuban Coast Guard as hundreds of spectators looked on.

Reuters

Cuban curiosity: Raft with US flag caught in plain view

An incident involving the Cuban coast guard in plain sight of the U.S. embassy in Havana had people scratching their heads on Monday

The Independent UK

Cuba forecasts only slight growth rise as crisis grips island

Crisis-hit Cuba on Monday forecast economic growth of 3% for 2023 and reported 2% in 2022, half of what it had previously predicted and down 8% from the pre-pandemic level.

Reuters

50 years of Haitian migration to South Florida: A story of protests, detention and triumph

MIAMI — They arrived 50 years ago, fleeing dictatorship and death. Along the treacherous, three-week ocean journey, the seafaring Haitian asylum seekers traded their shoes for food and water in Cuba, and were briefly jailed in the Bahamas before being asked their final destination.

Miami Herald

Biden calls on Cuba to release hundreds of political prisoners detained in 2021 protests

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden issued a statement Friday calling on the Cuban government to release hundreds of political prisoners detained last year during a rare surge in protests across the country.

Miami Herald

Book discussion at FIU turns into emotional rebuke of claims that Cubans are not exiles

MIAMI — It was supposed to be another routine event in the series of regular book presentations organized by Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute: on the podium, a respected scholar authoritatively presenting her most recent research. In the audience, a few attendants asking polite questions.

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Human smuggling boat stopped off Palm Beach. Migrants from 3 countries on board

MIAMI — U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped a boat just off shore of Palm Beach Friday morning they say was smuggling migrants from three different countries.

Reuters

Cuba accuses United States of blocking participation in World Baseball Classic

The United States is blocking some of Cuba´s top players from participating in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, Cuba´s vice foreign minister said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of spats over a sport beloved by fans in both nations.

The Guardian - UK

Pablo Milanés obituary

Cuban singer, songwriter and guitarist who was one of the founders of the nueva trova musical movement

WEKU

Boxing powerhouse Cuba lets women boxers compete

Cuban officials say women boxers will be able to compete officially after decades of restrictions, though they didn't yet confirm if that would be taken to a professional level like Cuban male boxers.

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Green light for female Cuban boxers

Boxing powerhouse Cuba have given the green light to women who wish to partake in tournaments for the first time since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. The

The Independent UK

Boxing powerhouse Cuba approves women's competitive fights

Cuban officials have announced that women boxers will be able to compete officially after decades of restrictions

Reuters

Boxing-Cuba to allow female boxers to compete for first time in six decades

Boxing powerhouse Cuba has given the green light to women who wish to partake in tournaments for the first time since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, sports officials said on Monday.

Al Jazeera

US adds Wagner mercenaries to blacklist for religious persecution

US State Department says it ‘will not stand by’ in the face of a crackdown on religious freedoms.

Miami Herald

What happens to people who die at sea trying to migrate? It falls to the Florida Keys

MIAMI — When people from Haiti and Cuba take to the sea in desperation to reach U.S. shores, they often end up in the Florida Keys, arriving on overloaded or homemade vessels.

The Independent UK

Human rights groups criticize Cuba’s new criminal code

Cuba enacted a new penal code this week that activists and human rights organizations worry could further limit free expression and snuff out protests at a time of deepening discontent on the island

Reuters

Cuba slams U.S. rejection of undersea telecoms connection to island

Cuba´s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio on Thursday accused long-time rival the United States of doublespeak after the Biden administration proposed to scrap a plan to install a new undersea telecommunications cable to Cuba.

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