This is the first time the U.S. government has imposed sanctions on Díaz-Canel, Cuba's handpicked president and head of the Communist Party, a civilian figure who was spared in several rounds of ...

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for charges of “assault” and “public disorder.” He is currently being held at the Boniato maximum-security prison in Santiago de Cuba.

The organization also condemned the harassment of former prisoners who have been released and called on foreign states to support human rights activists in Cuba. HRW described the arrests of Cuban ...

"Enough of these crimes against me, murderers! Why do they imprison my son and not Sandro Castro?" These are the impassioned ...

A recent video by Spanish YouTuber Topeados de Viaje (topeadosdeviaje) sheds light on the overwhelming despair felt by many Cubans. They compare ...

Convicted in 2002 of spying for Cuba, Montes has been called "one of the most damaging spies in American history." ...

CUBA (WTVD) -- For years, Guantanamo Bay Detention Center was set to lock up and close down. But it's the confusion over President Donald Trump's order to keep it open that keeps the facility ...

Medicina Cubana links to a news story about the sudden imprisonment in Cuba of a US citizen who runs an organisation which, for several years, has been sending donated medical equipment to Cuba: “In ...

President Trump $8 billion foreign aid cuts are crippling human rights groups in Latin America. Some may not survive ...

Formerly a U.S. territory, Cuba was allowed independence in 1902, subject to an agreement that the U.S. would still have a presence -- including the military base at Guantanamo Bay and the ability ...

On assignment for U.P.I. in Cuba, he learned of the U.S.- backed effort to overthrow Fidel Castro and was imprisoned. He ...