Cuba

The Team USA athlete explained what it was like to be an American flag bearer alongside Sue Bird. “It’s a symbol of liberty, a symbol of opportunity—one that my family needed and left their country for,” Alvarez said. “I was very honored to stand with that flag.”

The CIA’s internal watchdog is conducting a review of how the agency first handled reports that some of its officers suffered the neurological symptoms now known as Havana Syndrome, amid concerns the matter was not taken sufficiently seriously at the highest levels, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. The CIA’s Office of Inspector General is interviewing people...

The Biden administration imposed sanctions on Cuba’s defense minister and the communist nation’s special forces brigade.

The Biden administration announced new sanctions Thursday against a Cuban official and a government entity that it says was involved in human rights abuses during a government crackdown on protests on the island earlier this month. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control listed Alvaro Lopez Miera, a Cuban military and political leader, and the Brigada Especial Nacional...

The COVID-19 pandemic is slamming Cuba like never before, even as the country races to roll out its homegrown vaccines — the only locally developed shots widely used in Latin America

The Pentagon said it has transferred a Moroccan citizen from Guantanamo Bay to his home country, marking the first such release under President Biden.

Cuban officials have rallied tens of thousands of supporters in the streets nearly a week after they were stunned by the most widespread protests in decades

Dr. Jorge Duany of Florida International University talks about what’s sparked the latest Cuba protests, what the Biden administration is doing differently about them and what’s next for the Cuban people.

When demonstrators took to the streets of Florida this week to show solidarity with anti-government protesters in Cuba, shutting down a major stretch of an expressway and blocking streets in cities across the state, some eyes turned to Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis, a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, signed into law a measure that ramps up penalties...

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has acknowledged shortcomings in his government’s handling of shortages and of neglecting certain sectors.

“We are always considering options available to us that would allow us to support the Cuban people,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.

Large contingents of Cuban police are patrolling the capital of Havana following rare protests around the island nation against food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis

Large contingents of Cuban police are patrolling the capital of Havana following rare protests around the island nation against food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis

A defiant Cuban president lashed out at the U.S. embargo against Cuba on Monday in response to rare, massive protests in the country over the lack of food, fuel, medicine and other goods during the coronavirus pandemic, NBC News reports.

Sunday’s protests in Cuba are the largest the communist island has seen since the 1990s.

President Joe Biden and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki say the Administration is looking for ways to help the people of Cuba.

Thousands of Cubans have marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis.

The U.S. Coast Guard was continuing their search Friday for a group of Cuban boaters whose vessel overturned near the Florida Keys, leaving two people dead and 10 others missing. Officials said they searched by air and water throughout the night and would continue to search throughout the day Friday with the assistance of the U.S. Navy, the Florida...

Lawmakers confirmed to NBC News on Thursday that they were briefed in April on the investigation.

On Monday, Cuba’s Communist Party congress — as expected — chose Miguel Díaz-Canel to be its leader, adding that crucial post to the title of president he assumed in 2018. In both cases, he replaces his mentor Raul Castro, 89, sealing a political dynasty that had held power since the 1959 revolution.