The president wants to make it easier for African-Americans and Hispanics to vote, which the Republicans hope to make difficult to regain control of the two houses in Washington.

It is the largest group of legislators to take a position in favor of relations with the island. It remains to be seen if the initiative will be reciprocated in the Senate.

Washington evacuates a CIA agent from the Serbian capital, but without offering many details.

The Biden administration wants to distance itself from both Obama and Trump, but does not put anything new on the table except unenforceable sanctions.

The flights will be carried out by two Miami companies and will fly to Havana and other provinces. But they will not be able to carry passengers.

After months of silence, Cuba is now a “top priority” for the United States, a State Department official said.

The reopening of the Consulate will allow the resumption of the family reunification program and the processing of visas, until now done in third countries.

“I’m going to have nightmares for years, you too,” a firefighter told reporters.

60 years after his death, the American writer’s passage through the two cities is remembered.

Although the Cuban situation is different from that of Venezuela, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken believes what’s common is the lack of democracy in both.

With the recovery from the pandemic, not yet complete, the emblematic Calle Ocho returns to its undertakings.

So far this week, the United States has returned to the island 29 rafters trapped on the high seas.

Democrat Adam Gentle is a corruption attorney, member of the LGBTQ+ community, and a political rookie who calls himself a “commissioner and capitalist Democrat.”

The local press refers to alleged sonic attacks in Miami, but without providing sources, precise data or concrete accusations.

This proposal would represent a 60% reduction in the net present value of Cuba’s debt to the London Club.

The island’s lawyers, who represent the Cuban state enterprises CIMEX and CUPET, had argued that the lawsuit is inadmissible because the properties in question are located outside the United States.

Travelers to Cuba must still comply with Havana-imposed rules, which include a negative COVID-19 test and quarantine upon arrival to the island.

“Should they prove successful, the (Cuban) vaccines would be an against-the-odds feat of medical prowess—as well as a public relations coup—for an isolated country of 11 million that was added back to the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism in the final days of the Trump administration,” the U.S. capital’s newspaper underlined.

The group of smugglers was infiltrated by the authorities and quickly brought to trial as an exemplary gesture.

Leahy argues that there is a duality in politics. Although work must be done on respect for human rights, this requirement must be extended to all authoritarian countries, said the senator.

According to the Cuban-American senator, this administration is consulting the issue of Cuba with him and other colleagues and does not see an imminent rapprochement with the island.

The White House says that the promotion of human rights is the basic line of its policy towards the island, and announces that it is reviewing Cuba’s presence on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

The letter, signed by 80 congresspeople, may be the prelude to the discussion on the lifting of the economic embargo on the island.

Since Joe Biden arrived at the White House a month ago, Cuban exile politicians and activists have launched a series of proposals to the new president on the evolution of the ties between the United States and the island. So far the new administration has said twice that it is reviewing those links and that any change will be conditioned by respect for human rights and the participation of Cuban Americans in the process. So far, several proposals directed at the Democrat have called for a recovery of the thaw policy of the Barack Obama administration, of which Biden was vice president and even greater participation of American civil society. During his campaign, the current president advocated for unrestricted remittances and ties with Cuban citizens, as well as the reestablishment of consular and commercial ties allowed by economic embargo-related laws. In this context, on Wednesday a group of senators, congresspeople, mayors, councilors, and activists gathered at the Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami to reject any improvement in relations between the two countries. The activity, organized by the conservative Inspire America foundation, was presented as a bipartisan initiative, but the truth is that only one Democrat intervened in the...

With the arrival at the White House of Democrat Joe Biden, who was vice president of Barack Obama—the U.S. president who launched the thaw with Havana with the phrase “this conflict began before I was born”—, a basically Cuban-American study and analysis group has launched a document that proposes to the current president that he resume ties with the island. “The urgency of the moment, compounded by Cuba’s needs in the midst of the most serious economic crisis it has faced in a generation, calls for bold action. If both countries do not achieve a comprehensive policy of rapprochement this time and do not set the path to normalization on firmer ground, we fear that there will not be another opportunity like this for many years,” says the 26-page proposal to Biden, prepared by the Cuba Study Group. “We are not in the driver’s seat, we can just make recommendations,” the president of the group, Carlos Saladrigas, commented in an electronic press conference. Saladrigas is not new to initiatives to strengthen ties between the two countries. He has traveled to the island, has dialogued with civil society and has given lectures on the private sector. It’s not for nothing that...