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Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm
2 months ago

Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm

The Independent  

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry
9 months ago

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Associated Press  

HAVANA — Like millions of other Cubans, María de los Ángeles Pozo thinks back fondly to when a government ration book fed her family everything from hamburgers, fish and milk to chocolate and beer. The “libreta,” as Cubans know it, was launched in July 1963 and became one of the pillars of the island’s socialist system, helping people through crises …

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Cubans in eastern city of Santiago protest blackouts and food shortages
9 months, 1 week ago

Cubans in eastern city of Santiago protest blackouts and food shortages

Associated Press  

HAVANA — Small groups of protesters took to the streets in the eastern city of Santiago on Sunday, decrying power outages lasting up to eight hours and food shortages across Cuba. In reporting on events in Santiago, the government-linked news organization El Necio said, “Due to the long hours of power outages from lack of fuel and other situations arising …

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Remembering the Cuban July 11 protests
1 year, 5 months ago

Remembering the Cuban July 11 protests

LA Times  

I had just gotten into an elevator in Las Vegas when I heard the familiar accent. The #EU should urge President @DiazCanelB to free those unjustly imprisoned #CubaSinRepresión✊🏾 #CubaWithoutRepression pic.twitter.com/4ENcB6eajW — Amnesty EU July 10, 2023 The protests that took place two years ago this week in Cuba were something many of us in the U.S. and on the island …

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Cuban baseball team draws ire, support in Little Havana
1 year, 9 months ago

Cuban baseball team draws ire, support in Little Havana

Associated Press  

MIAMI — Jose Vilela fled Cuba for the United States when he was 14 years old after spending six months in a concentration camp. Vilela, now 68, paced Sunday afternoon outside loanDepot Park, the Miami Marlins’ home stadium, where the Cuban national baseball team later lost to the United States 14-2 in the World Baseball Classic semifinals. “We’re just here …

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2 Cuban sisters’ 4,200-mile journey to the US and a new life
1 year, 10 months ago

2 Cuban sisters’ 4,200-mile journey to the US and a new life

Associated Press  

HAVANA — The Rolo González sisters walked out of Nicaragua’s main airport and peered out onto a sea of young men. “You have your destination, but you don’t know what awaits you on your journey.” ___ Over the past two years, American authorities have detained Cubans nearly 300,000 times on the border with Mexico. While they had trained as doctors, …

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Mariel exodus from Cuba inspires La Marielita rum
1 year, 10 months ago

Mariel exodus from Cuba inspires La Marielita rum

Associated Press  

MIAMI — The Mariel exodus has produced some of the best and worst moments for the image of the Cuban exiles in the United States. A RUM AND A MOVIE SCRIPT La Marielita rum has its origin in a movie script that Díaz Bonilla wrote to tell her side of the story, the one that is not in films like …

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Thousands of Cubans left scrambling after new US asylum policy
1 year, 10 months ago

Thousands of Cubans left scrambling after new US asylum policy

Al Jazeera  

Havana, Cuba – Patri, 24, is hiding $1,100 in a storage ottoman in her bedroom in the Cuban capital of Havana. In January, the administration of US President Joe Biden issued an executive order restricting asylum applications along the country’s southern border. There, US Customs and Border Control estimates that 306,612 Cubans — well over two percent of the island’s …

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Migrant repatriations continue as Florida steps up patrols
1 year, 11 months ago

Migrant repatriations continue as Florida steps up patrols

Associated Press  

KEY WEST, Fla. — The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 273 migrants to Matanzas, Cuba, over the weekend following interdictions off the Florida Keys. While more than 4,400 migrants from Cuba and Haiti have made their way by boat to the state since August, more than 700 migrants arrived in the Florida Keys over New Year’s weekend, officials said. However, the …

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Facing migration flood, US resumes services at Cuba embassy
1 year, 11 months ago

Facing migration flood, US resumes services at Cuba embassy

Associated Press  

HAVANA — Grappling with the biggest flood of Cuban migrants in decades, the United States reopened their long-closed legal pathway on Wednesday by resuming all visa services at its embassy in Havana. “This could help reduce illegal immigration, and make it so people can go to the United States in a safer way,” said applicant Ariel Arzuaga, a 59-year-old technician …

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US embassy in Cuba resumes full immigrant visa services
1 year, 11 months ago

US embassy in Cuba resumes full immigrant visa services

Al Jazeera  

Resumption of visa and consular services in Havana comes amid record migration from the Caribbean island to the US. The United States has resumed full immigrant visa services at its embassy in Cuba’s capital, five years after Washington closed consular services in Havana due to a spate of unexplained health incidents. The resumed services come amid record migration from Cuba …

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Dedicated Cuban teacher finds formula for Chinese learners
2 years ago

Dedicated Cuban teacher finds formula for Chinese learners

China Daily  

Sochi Alay instructs local Cubans learning Chinese language at Confucius Institute in Havana. Every day, Sochi Alay spends several hours at Confucius Institute in Havana to help students understand the complexity of Chinese calligraphy and pronunciation. Teaching Chinese at Confucius Institute would not have been possible without Jorge Alay, his father, who also worked as a Chinese-language teacher at the …

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Dedicated Cuban teacher finds formula for Chinese learners
2 years ago

Dedicated Cuban teacher finds formula for Chinese learners

China Daily  

Sochi Alay instructs local Cubans learning Chinese language at Confucius Institute in Havana. Every day, Sochi Alay spends several hours at Confucius Institute in Havana to help students understand the complexity of Chinese calligraphy and pronunciation. Teaching Chinese at Confucius Institute would not have been possible without Jorge Alay, his father, who also worked as a Chinese-language teacher at the …

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Dedicated Cuban teacher finds formula for Chinese learners
2 years ago

Dedicated Cuban teacher finds formula for Chinese learners

China Daily  

Sochi Alay instructs local Cubans learning Chinese language at Confucius Institute in Havana. Every day, Sochi Alay spends several hours at Confucius Institute in Havana to help students understand the complexity of Chinese calligraphy and pronunciation. Teaching Chinese at Confucius Institute would not have been possible without Jorge Alay, his father, who also worked as a Chinese-language teacher at the …

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Cuba, U.S. to hold second round of migration talks in Havana
2 years, 1 month ago

Cuba, U.S. to hold second round of migration talks in Havana

The Hindu  

Cuba and the United States will hold another round of migration talks on Tuesday in Havana, officials said on Monday, as the two countries grapple with a crisis that has seen record-breaking numbers of Cubans enter the United States. Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio told Reuters in an interview in Havana that those steps would discourage illegal migration …

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US, Cubans will meet again in Havana: State Department
2 years, 1 month ago

US, Cubans will meet again in Havana: State Department

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — U.S. and Cuban officials plan to meet in Havana on Tuesday to discuss migration policy, the latest in a series of sessions between two governments with a historically icy relationship and amid one of the biggest migratory flights from the island in decades. U.S. authorities stopped Cubans nearly 221,000 times in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, a …

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Cubans protest in Havana for 2nd night over lack of power
2 years, 2 months ago

Cubans protest in Havana for 2nd night over lack of power

Associated Press  

HAVANA — Groups of Cubans protested Friday night in the streets of Havana for a second night, decrying delays in fully restoring electricity three days after Hurricane Ian knocked out power across the island. The government did not say what percentage of the overall population remained without electricity Friday, but electrical authorities said only 10% of Havana’s 2 million people …

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‘Turn on the lights’: Cubans protest post-Hurricane Ian blackouts
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Turn on the lights’: Cubans protest post-Hurricane Ian blackouts

Al Jazeera  

Power outages have reportedly led Havana to make rare request to US for emergency assistance. Protests have broken out in Cuba for the second night in a row over power outages in the wake of Hurricane Ian, with the continuing shortages reportedly prompting Havana to make a rare appeal to the United States for emergency assistance. The neighbourhood, like several …

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With Cubans leaving en masse, much of Cuba's real estate is up for sale
2 years, 6 months ago

With Cubans leaving en masse, much of Cuba's real estate is up for sale

NPR  

With Cubans leaving en masse, much of Cuba's real estate is up for sale Enlarge this image toggle caption Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images HAVANA, Cuba — Marco put his home up for sale, a concrete, one-bedroom house outside the Cuban capital, just blocks from the beach. Enlarge this image toggle caption Dario …

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In Cuba, caution and confusion meet eased US sanctions
2 years, 7 months ago

In Cuba, caution and confusion meet eased US sanctions

Associated Press  

HAVANA — Marylín Álvarez seemed to be just the sort of person that eased American sanctions on Cuba were meant to help. It was one of myriad small private businesses blossoming on the Communist-led island as U.S. President Barack Obama’s opening to Cuba led to more money and visitors from the north. Former President Donald Trump tightened the six-decade-old embargo …

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White House moves to loosen remittance, flight rules on Cuba
2 years, 7 months ago

White House moves to loosen remittance, flight rules on Cuba

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration says it will expand flights to Cuba, take steps to loosen restrictions on U.S. travelers to the island, and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island. Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the moves send the “wrong message” to …

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White House moves to loosen remittance, flight rules on Cuba
2 years, 7 months ago

White House moves to loosen remittance, flight rules on Cuba

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand flights to Cuba, take steps to loosen restrictions on U.S. travelers to the island, and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island. Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the moves send the “wrong …

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White House moves to loosen restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba, and lift Trump-era restrictions
2 years, 7 months ago

White House moves to loosen restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba, and lift Trump-era restrictions

LA Times  

Tourists on the beach at a hotel in Varadero, Cuba, on Sept. 29, 2021. The Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand flights to Cuba, take steps to loosen restrictions on U.S. travelers to the island, and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island. “With these actions, we aim to support Cubans’ …

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US resumes limited visa processing in Cuba after 4 years
2 years, 7 months ago

US resumes limited visa processing in Cuba after 4 years

Associated Press  

HAVANA — The U.S. Embassy in Havana has resumed processing visas for Cubans, though on a limited basis, more than four years after stopping consular services on the island amid a hardening of relations. A State Department official on Wednesday told The Associated Press that for the time being U.S. officials in Havana will only process visa requests from Cubans …

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