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The U.S. embassy in Havana issued a health alert for Cuba on Friday, warning travelers and residents of a spike in intestinal illnesses and diarrhea caused by failing water and electricity supply, even as the Trump administration continued to hold back fuel shipments necessary for power generation on the island.
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Scattered protests broke out across Havana on Tuesday evening, with residents banging pots, honking horns and shouting "turn on the lights" as millions of Cubans remained without power amid a six-month-long U.S. fuel blockade.
3 months ago
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Cuba's Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro — the grandson of former Cuban leader Raul Castro — has said that he is open to negotiating with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to an interview published by USA Today on Monday.
3 months ago
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Cuba began to slowly restore power on Monday after the country's national electric grid collapsed earlier in the day, the latest blow to an island already suffering from severe energy, fuel and medicine shortages.
3 months ago
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Cuba`s prime minister on Thursday presented lawmakers with sweeping measures backed by the Communist Party and former leader Raul Castro that would privatize a vast swath of its socialist economy in a bid to survive punishing U.S. sanctions.
4 months ago
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Cuban lawmakers unanimously approved sweeping reforms backed by the Communist Party and former leader Raul Castro that would privatize a vast swath of the country's socialist economy in a bid to survive punishing U.S. sanctions.
4 months ago
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Colombian Ramiro Escobar had long dreamed of visiting Cuba.
4 months ago
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Cuba's former leader Raul Castro appeared at an Interior Ministry celebration in Havana, showed state television on Friday, in the elder statesman's first public appearance since his indictment on murder charges last month in the United States.
4 months ago
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Felicia de la Caridad Alvarez, a resident of Old Havana, knows a thing or two about survival.
5 months ago
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The order is another blow to Cuba's economy and already decimated tourism industry.
5 months ago
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Cuba's former leader Raul Castro turned 95 on Wednesday, though his whereabouts were still unknown two weeks after U.S. authorities charged him with murder in connection with the downing of civilian airplanes in 1996.
5 months ago