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Ricardo Alarcón, Castro confidant and top Cuban envoy, dies

Ricardo Alarcón, who was for years the head of Cuba’s parliament and one of the country’s most prominent diplomats, has died in Havana

The Independent UK

Cubans take to streets on Worker's Day for first time in three years

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

Ricardo Alarcon, Cuban point man for U.S. relations, dies aged 84

Ricardo Alarcon, one of the most powerful men in Cuba under former President Fidel Castro and a key player in relations with the United States, died in Havana on Saturday evening, his family said.

Reuters

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We are closer to nuclear war than in Cuban Missile Crisis – Khrushchev relative

Nina Khrushcheva, whose great-grandfather was the Soviet Union leader during the 1962 standoff, said the present conflict is more dangerous.

The Independent UK

3 Cuban migrants found on the shore in the Florida Keys. Where is their boat?

MIAMI — U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended three Cuban men who arrived in the Florida Keys Friday morning.

Miami Herald

Cuba’s Communist Party promotes old guard general amid uncertainty after protests

Cuba’s Communist Party bent its own rules this week to promote an old-guard general to the organization’s top decision-making bodies, the latest in a number of recent changes reflecting the challenges of an aging military leadership’s grip on power.

Miami Herald

US Coast Guard stops a total of 84 Cuban migrants at sea over a 3-day span

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a total of 84 people from Cuba migrating by sea off the Bahamas and the Florida Keys last week.

Miami Herald

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Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela unlikely to join summit: US official

State Department official says three gov’ts unlikely to be at Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June.

Al Jazeera

Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela's Maduro government unlikely to be invited to regional summit -U.S

Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government are likely to be excluded from the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas to be held in June in Los Angeles, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Cuba accuses US of trying to exclude it from regional summit

Cuban foreign minister says Washington is pressuring governments to block Havana from Summit of the Americas in June.

Al Jazeera

Cuba says it has been excluded from the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles

The Biden administration has excluded Cuba from the preparations leading to the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles and would not invite the island’s representatives to the event, the Cuban foreign affairs minister said Monday.

Miami Herald

Ibeyi: ‘We sing for our dad, our sister, we sing with our ancestors’

Ahead of the release of their star-studded new album, Afro-French-Cuban twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz discuss love, revolution and ancient Egypt

The Guardian - UK

As sea crossings by Haitian and Cuban migrants increase, so do US Coast Guard patrols

The white speck appears on the radar screen, bobbing in the surf far below as the waves crash into one another in the deep blue waters of the Florida Straits. A U.S. Coast Guard aviation electronics technician, manning the screen, leans forward for a closer look while cameras from the…

Miami Herald

Cuba and US take tentative step with talks on migration

Cuba and the United States have taken a tentative step toward unthawing relations and resuming joint efforts to address irregular migration

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US-Cuba tensions persist after high-level migration talks

Discussions on migration held in Washington this week amid increasing numbers of Cubans trying to enter the US.

The Independent UK

US, Cuba hold highest-level talks in four years

The United States and Cuba have held their highest-level diplomatic talks in four years after a severe disruption in ties during the Trump administration

Reuters

Russia donates wheat to ally Cuba as grains prices soar globally

By Dave Sherwood

The Independent UK

More Cubans immigrating to the US by crossing from Mexico

More immigrants from Cuba are coming to the U.S. by making their way to Mexico and crossing the border illegally

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Miami Herald

US is weighing resuming migration accords with Cuba, Homeland Secretary Mayorkas says

The United States is considering resuming migration accords with Cuba at a time tens of thousands of people are leaving the island to come to the U.S., Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday.

Miami Herald

US and Cuba to discuss migration crisis as thousands of Cubans arrive at the border

Biden administration officials will meet a Cuban delegation Thursday in Washington, D.C., to discuss a dramatic increase in migration from the island, a source with knowledge of the matter told the Miami Herald.

The Independent UK

Cuba says it will attend migration talks with the US

Cuban authorities say migration talks with the United States will take place this week, the first in four years since the hardening of relations between both countries and amid a sustained increase in arrivals of Cuban citizens at the southern border of the U.S. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said on Twitter…

Miami Herald

3 more groups of Cuban boaters make it to the Keys within 24 hours, Border Patrol says

MIAMI — Three separate groups of Cuban migrants arrived in the Florida Keys within about 24 hours, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

Reuters

Exclusive-U.S., Cuba to hold high-level migration talks in Washington

American and Cuban officials are due to meet in Washington on Thursday to discuss migration concerns, people familiar with the matter said, in the highest-level formal U.S. talks with Havana since President Joe Biden took office last year.

Reason

The Myth of Cuban Health Care

How did something so at odds with reality persist for so long? And why is it finally crumbling?

Tribune News Service

Departamento de Estado de EEUU advierte sobre "represión sistémica y violenta" en Cuba

Apr. 14—El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos dijo que había recibido pruebas creíbles de homicidios ilegítimos, desapariciones forzadas y torturas de activistas políticos en una dura evaluación del historial del gobierno cubano publicada esta semana como parte del informe anual de la agencia sobre prácticas de derechos humanos.

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