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Book Review: ‘The Tilting House’ explores coming of age in Communist Cuba

August 2, 2025 Anita Snow

Yuri is a 16-year-old orphan who lives simply with her religious aunt in a big, old house in Communist Cuba in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yuri’s parents had named her […]

A year after protests, Cuba struggles to emerge from crisis

July 11, 2022 Andrea Rodriguez, Associated Press

HAVANA — A year after the largest protests in decades shook Cuba’s single-party government, hundreds of people who participated are in prison and the economic and political factors that caused the demonstrations largely remain. Streets […]

DeSantis proposes $25M restoration of Miami’s ‘Ellis Island’

November 19, 2021 Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press

MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing a $25 million investment to repair Miami’s Freedom Tower, a historic building also known as the “Ellis Island of the South,” where Cuban refugees received government help […]

GOP: Biden not doing enough to help Cubans access internet

August 6, 2021 Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press

MIAMI — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and fellow GOP politicians accused President Joe Biden on Thursday of not doing more to help Cubans on the island get access to the internet. Internet service was […]

Thousands of Cubans marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island Sunday to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis, in one of biggest anti-government demonstrations in memory. Many young […]

Tropical Storm Elsa headed to landfall on central Cuba coast

July 5, 2021 Andrea Rodriguez, Associated Press

HAVANA — Tropical Storm Elsa swept along Cuba’s southern coast early Monday, and forecasters said it could make landfall on the island’s central shore by midafternoon. By Sunday, Cuban officials had evacuated 180,000 people as […]

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Biden will try to close Guantanamo after ‘robust’ review

February 17, 2021 Ben Fox, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden will seek to close the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay following a review process, resuming a project begun under the Obama administration, the White House said […]

Trump hits Cuba with new terrorism sanctions in waning days

January 13, 2021 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration on re-designated Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism,” hitting the country with new sanctions that could hamstring President-elect Joe Biden’s promise to renew relations with the communist-governed island. […]

Book Review: ‘The Tilting House’ explores coming of age in Communist Cuba

A year after protests, Cuba struggles to emerge from crisis

DeSantis proposes $25M restoration of Miami’s ‘Ellis Island’

GOP: Biden not doing enough to help Cubans access internet

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Editorial Cartoon – Cuba

Demonstrators in Havana protest shortages, rising prices

Tropical Storm Elsa headed to landfall on central Cuba coast

Biden will try to close Guantanamo after ‘robust’ review

Trump hits Cuba with new terrorism sanctions in waning days

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