Cuba

Cuba begins releasing prisoners under scrutiny of rights groups, US government

The decision to release the prisoners on the island comes after Washington's most intense pressure campaign in decades, although Havana denies any decision-making under US coercion.

Regla Yolanda Gonzalez poses for a photograph following her son's release from prison, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican that saw the Biden administration loosen sanctions on Cuba, in Havana, Cuba January 21, 2025.
An aerial view shows the oil tanker named Boracay (also called Pushpa), a vessel being investigated by French authorities and suspected of belonging to the so-called "shadow fleet" involved in the Russian oil trade, off the coast of the western France port of Saint-Nazaire, France, October 2, 2025

US allows Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba, reversing course on blockade

Activists of the Nuestra America Convoy and Cuban officials unload humanitarian aid from the vessel Maguro -- symbolically renamed "Granma 2.0" as a tribute to the yacht used by Fidel Castro's guerrilla fighters to launch their revolution in 1956 -- at Havana port on March 24, 2026.

Two humanitarian aid boats en route to Cuba are missing, Mexico says

The US flag flutters at the US embassy in Caracas on March 14, 2026, ten days after the restoration of diplomatic relations following the capture of ousted leader Nicolas Maduro in a US military raid.

US push for Western Hemisphere dominance could extend to Cuba and Nicaragua, experts say


Netanyahu, like Castro, will never change

The world had changed, but Castro was living in his own history – and so was Cuba.

Benjamin Netanyahu

La mort de Fidel Castro : jusqu’à la victoire, finalement

Le soutien historique du Líder Máximo à certaines causes, notamment celle des Palestiniens, lui offre aujourd’hui une sorte de victoire posthume

Fidel Castro signe le registre de condoléances de Yasser Arafat

Fidel Castro: The last revolutionary

Fidel Castro laughed last, having outlived the post-Cold War euphoria that corrupted the West.

PEOPLE ARE transported to greet the caravan carrying the ashes of Fidel Castro in Colon, Cuba, on Wednesday.

Our world: Castro’s greatest victory

The West managed to defeat the Soviet state, but not the Soviet cause. And the flags at half-mast for Castro in Ramallah are proof of the Castro-executed Soviet victory over morality and over truth.

FIDEL CASTRO and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stand together at the Havana airport during Arafat’s first visit to Cuba in 1974.

Obama’s spinelessness and Trump’s courage on Castro

As an American who loves Canada and has the privilege of hosting a national TV show there, I am embarrassed for the good people of Canada.

File picture of Fidel Castro smoking a cigar during interview with the press in Havana

Palestinians recall fond memories of late Cuban leader Castro

Abbas ordered Palestinian flags to be set a half-staff on Sunday, according to Wafa, the official PA news site.

File picture of Fidel Castro smoking a cigar during interview with the press in Havana

Comment: The romance of Castro and the death of a dictator

The Castro regime is a remnant of a bygone era of big men running small countries whose citizens must hang on their every word, their five-hour speeches, their cults of personality.

File picture of Fidel Castro smoking a cigar during interview with the press in Havana

Fidel Castro dies aged 90

Transforming Cuba from a playground for rich Americans into a symbol of resistance to Washington, Castro outlasted nine US presidents in power.

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro.

A look at Cuba’s dwindling Jewish community

At its height, Cuba was home to roughly 20,000 Jews. Now that number teeters around 1,000, depending on whom you ask.

Simon Goldstein, first vice president of the B’nai B’rith Maimonides Lodge, displays the Torah scrolls kept in the Centro Sefaradi Hebreo

In step toward closure, 15 Guantanamo inmates transferred to UAE

The total number of detainees at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is down to 61.

The exterior of Camp Delta is seen at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 6, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks.