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US Makes Limited Exception to Cuba Energy Embargo

With humanitarian crisis looming, Canada says it plans to assist island

(Newser) - Washington is opening the tap on fuel headed to Cuba ever so slightly. New Treasury Department guidance says Venezuelan oil can now be resold to private businesses on the island for commercial and humanitarian use, carving out a limited exception to President Trump's energy embargo , the Wall Street Journal...

Cubans Are Now Waiting Weeks, Months for Gas

Government app designed to reduce lines at the gas station is itself overwhelmed as fuel gets scarce

(Newser) - Drivers in Cuba are facing the prospects of waiting several months to refuel their cars, as fuel shortages caused by a US oil siege intensify. To avoid chaos outside gas stations, Cuba's government last week made it obligatory for drivers to use an app known as Ticket to get...

Another Way to Squeeze Cuba: Through Its Doctors

Cuba has for decades sent medical workers abroad, and kept most of their salaries

(Newser) - Guatemala has become the latest country to pull the plug on a decades-old program that brought hundreds of Cuban doctors into the country—with all but a "small fraction" of their salaries going straight to Cuba. The New York Times reports Guatemala's Health Ministry said Tuesday it will...

Air Canada Suspends Flights to Cuba

Cuba says it doesn't have enough jet fuel to refuel aircraft

(Newser) - Air Canada says it is pausing all flights to Cuba starting Monday after airports there warned they can't guarantee aviation fuel supplies. The airline will send in empty planes over the next few days to bring home roughly 3,000 customers already on the island, the CBC reports. The...

Trump Moves to Cut Off Cuba's Oil Supply

Executive order threatens tariffs on any country selling oil to Havana

(Newser) - President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that would impose a tariff on any goods from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, a move that could further cripple an island plagued by a deepening energy crisis. The order would primarily put pressure on Mexico, a government that...

Mexico: Decision to Halt Oil Shipment a 'Sovereign' Choice

Sheinbaum denies US pressure as Cuba faces a worsening fuel crisis

(Newser) - Mexico's president is confirming a politically sensitive move while insisting the motive is her country's alone. Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday effectively acknowledged that Mexico has pulled a planned oil shipment to Cuba, telling reporters the choice was "a sovereign decision and it is made in the moment...

Report: Trump Wants Regime Change in Cuba

Washington pressures Havana insiders as Cuba's fragile economy nears collapse

(Newser) - Washington is quietly testing whether the playbook it used in Caracas can be run again 90 miles off Florida's coast. According to US officials and people briefed on internal discussions, the Trump administration is actively looking for senior figures inside Cuba's government who might be willing to help...

For Trump-Supporting Cubans in Florida, Growing 'Unease'

Government policies end special protections, expand detentions and family separations

(Newser) - Cubans in Florida who long believed they were largely shielded from US deportation policies are discovering that their safety net is essentially gone. The New York Times traces how the Trump administration has sharply escalated removals to Cuba, deporting more than 1,600 people in 2025 alone—about twice that...

Man's Death in ICE Custody Raises New Questions

Medical examiner staffer cites possible homicide in Texas; feds say Cuban migrant tried to kill himself

(Newser) - US immigration authorities say a Cuban detainee tried to kill himself at a Texas detention camp. A staffer at the local medical examiner's office who spoke to his daughter, however, suggests the death may be ruled a homicide. In a recorded call shared with the Washington Post , an employee...

Cubans Mourn After Remains Are Returned From Venezuela

Crowds wait in rain to pay their respects

(Newser) - Cuba on Thursday publicly received the remains of 32 citizens killed in the US military operation that toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, turning Havana's main airport into a stage for grief and political messaging. State television carried live images of small flag-draped boxes arriving from Venezuela on Thursday,...

In Cuba, 'It's Never Been as Bad as It Is Now'

About a third of the nation in poverty amid loss of Venezuelan oil, blackouts, food shortages

(Newser) - Cuba's leadership is confronting an economic unraveling that longtime residents and economists say is without precedent since the island nation's revolution in the 1950s. Power outages of up to 20 hours a day, empty ration stores, and waits for gasoline that stretch for months have become routine. "...

Venezuela Says Dozens Were Killed in US 'War Crime'

At least 24 security officers died, along with 32 Cubans

(Newser) - At least 24 Venezuelan security officers were killed in the dead-of-night US military operation to capture Nicolas Maduro and spirit him to the United States to face federal drug charges, officials said Tuesday. Venezuela's Attorney General Tarek William Saab said "dozens" of officials and civilians were killed and...

Cuba Lost 32 Officers in US Strike on Venezuela

Military was on an undisclosed mission in Caracas when US attacked

(Newser) - The American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday. The Cuban military and police officers were on a mission its military was carrying out at the request of Venezuela's government, according to a statement read on Cuban state TV. What...

Cuba Regime May Not Survive US Squeeze on Venezuela

Tanker seizures threaten vital fuel lifeline to Havana

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal reports that Washington's latest strategy against Venezuela might be landing hardest 1,300 miles away—in a Cuba already buckling under its worst economic crisis in decades. The US has begun enforcing a partial blockade on Venezuelan oil exports by targeting tankers under sanctions—ships...

Hurricane Kills at Least 20 in One Haitian Town

'It was terrible,' Cuban says after destructive night

(Newser) - More than 30 deaths have been reported as Hurricane Melissa works its way Wednesday across Cuba and toward the Bahamas, a day after making landfall in Jamaica as one of the region's strongest storms on record. Officials in Haiti said at least 25 people were killed as waters rose...

Hurricane Melissa Moves On to Cuba
Hurricane Melissa
Hits Cuba
Oct 29, 2025 3:00 AM CDT

Hurricane Melissa Hits Cuba

Landslides are likely, forecasters warn as Category 3 storm hits

(Newser) - Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba near the city of Chivirico early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record , the US National Hurricane Center said. Hundreds of thousands of people had been evacuated to shelters in Cuba. Early...

Melissa Nears Jamaica as Category 5
Melissa Nears Jamaica
as Category 5
Oct 27, 2025 6:01 AM CDT

Melissa Nears Jamaica as Category 5

Hurricane to pass over island Tuesday before expected landfall in Cuba

(Newser) - Hurricane Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength Monday as it neared Jamaica with up to 30 inches of rain and a life-threatening storm surge, per the AP . Melissa is forecast to make landfall on the island Tuesday and cross Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday. Melissa was centered about 130...

Wanted in US and Mexico, 'Brother Wang' Nabbed in Cuba

Alleged money launderer, drug trafficker Zhi Dong Zhang was captured after global manhunt

(Newser) - A suspected Chinese fentanyl trafficker accused of running a global money-laundering operation and wanted by both the US and Mexico has been arrested in Cuba after fleeing house arrest in Mexico, officials confirmed Wednesday. The suspect, Zhi Dong Zhang—aka "Brother Wang"—is alleged to have collaborated with...

She Escaped From Jail, Hid Out in Cuba for Decades

Assata Shakur, Black activist and godmother to rapper Tupac, is dead at 78 after years in Cuba

(Newser) - Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she'd been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died at the age of 78. She was also the godmother to the late rapper...

Cuban Minister Says 'There Are No Beggars,' Now an Ex-Minister

Labor Minister Marta Elena Feito Cabrera suggested poverty-stricken people were pretending

(Newser) - A Cuban minister who sparked criticism after saying there are no beggars in Cuba, only people disguised as such, resigned on Tuesday. Cuba's Presidency said in a post on X that Minister of Labor and Social Security Marta Elena Feito Cabrera "acknowledged her errors and submitted her resignation....

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