The Latest Breaking News from Havana

Havana (AFP) - Cuba's government on Monday announced a surprise lifting of its ban on US dollar deposits in banks, reversing a policy which had been in place across the communist island nation since June 2021.

The United States and Cuba will hold another round of migration talks on Wednesday, officials said, as the Biden administration braces for the end of COVID-era border restrictions that have blocked Cubans in recent months from crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

A fusion of African religions and Catholicism, Santería was one of the few religious practices to endure through decades of prohibitions by Cuba’s communist government

Lines for fuel in Cuba´s capital Havana snaked for blocks on Wednesday as frustrated citizens waited for hours, and in some cases days, to fill their tanks, the latest chapter in a growing economic crisis that is rattling the Caribbean island nation.

Havana (AFP) - Cuban retiree Xiomara Castellanos gets a monthly pension equivalent to $13.80.A carton of 30 eggs in the inflation-battered country costs $14.10 -- almost four times more than two years ago.

Full intelligence report contradicts official claims that strange cluster of ailments wasn't caused by attack

MIAMI — When he opened Cerveceria La Tropical in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood in 2021, CEO Manny Portuondo brought a longtime dream to life, recreating a modern version of a Havana brewery founded in 1888.

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James Clifford Kent adds to the worldwide debate on how best to deal with migration by explaining why Cuba is seeing a huge number of people leaving the island country as they search for better economic prosperity

Former national security adviser tells podcast ‘we didn’t feel we would get support’ from president during Russia investigation

Far from the romanticised notion of Old Havana, this project documents the city’s housing situation as a microcosm of the country’s collapse. Many buildings have collapsed or been declared uninhabitable, forcing people to live in shelters or squat in unsafe conditions while new hotels are built around them