When Mark Cuban is feeling spicy, he’ll always let you know. The billionaire businessman, basketball owner, and Shark Tank impresario lit up WIRED’s The Big Interview event on Tuesday, dropping hot takes about Elon Musk, the pharmaceutical industry, and why he thinks “couch fucking” and Gary Gensler’s crypto policy cost Kamala Harris the election. “We’ve lowered the price of every …
A Cuban mercenary has issued a warning to his fellow countrymen against fighting for Russia in Ukraine. From her home in Havana last September, she said her son and other Cubans traveled at the end of July to Russia after being promised work in a construction job. Cuban seamstress Yamidely Cervantes told Reuters her 49-year-old husband Enrique Gonzalez, a struggling …
Network based in Cuba and Russia alleged to have facilitated Cubans to join Russia’s war in Ukraine. Cuban authorities have arrested 17 people on charges related to a human trafficking ring that allegedly lured young Cuban men to fight in Ukraine with the Russian military. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said earlier this week that authorities were working to dismantle the network, …
Cuba says it has no part in war in Ukraine and would ‘act vigorously’ against those trafficking Cubans as fighters. Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring that has coerced Cuban citizens to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry said, adding that authorities were working to “neutralize and dismantle” the network. “The Ministry of the …
TAPACHULA, Mexico — When migrants arrive to the main crossing point into southern Mexico -- a steamy city with no job opportunities, a place packed with foreigners eager to keep moving north -- they soon learn the only way to cut through the red tape and expedite what can be a monthslong process is to pay someone. The lawyer described …