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The Guardian : Cuba
21 may
02h03
Trump says there won’t be escalation’ with Cuba after US indictment of former president Raà l Castro - as it happened
Robert Mackey, Maham Javaid, Lucy Campbell and Yohannes Lowe
Cuba’s government has also accused US of hypocrisy after acting US attorney general announced indictment of former Cuban president over downed...
01h00
Trump news at a glance: US indicts Raà l Castro, ratcheting up Cuba tensions
Guardian staff
Former president, 94, faces multiple US felony charges, including four counts of murder - key US politics stories from Wednesday 20 MayThe United...
20 may
22h40
US indicts former Cuban president Raà l Castro as it seeks to oust regime
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Charges filed in Miami against 94-year-old for allegedly shooting down exiles’ planes in 1996The United States issued a federal criminal indictment...
21h05
US announces murder charges against former Cuban president Raà l Castro - video
Reuters
Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche announced the indictment of former Cuban president Raà l Castro on Wednesday, in what is seen as an...
18 may
14h42
Cuba warns US of bloodbath’ if military action follows drone claims
Editorial
Cuba’s president, Miguel Dà az-Canel, says any US strike would be catastrophic after reports of 300 dronesCuba’s president, Miguel Dà az-Canel, has...
17 may
16h26
The Guardian view on Cuba: Trump says he can do anything I want’ to the island. It doesn’t belong to him Editorial
Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana
Buoyed by his removal of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, the US president is intensifying an economic stranglehold and military menaceWhile the world...
15 may
17h31
Threatened indictment of Raà l Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba
Guardian staff and agencies
Trump administration move echoes indictment of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro as fuel crisis racks CubaTensions between Cuba and US seem set to rise...
00h39
CIA director has met officials in Havana for talks, Cuba claims
Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana and agencies
Visit comes after US-Cuba relations deteriorated significantly, and as the island nation declared it had absolutely no fuel’ because of US...
14 may
17h57
Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, energy minister says, as US blockade pushes island to brink
José Olivares
Minister Vicente de la O Levy says Cuba is open to anyone that wants to sell us fuel’ as rolling power blackouts increaseProtests have erupted across...
17h24
Protests flare in Havana as Cuba runs out of diesel and fuel oil amid US blockade - video
Alfie Pannell in Havana. Photographs by Euan Wallace
Cuba’s capital city, Havana, is facing rolling blackouts amid a US blockade that has caused the country to completely run out of diesel and fuel oil....
13 may
14h47
Trump urged to rule out unlawful’ Cuba takeover and stop using Guantánamo Bay for migrant detention
Nesrine Malik
Exclusive: In letter seen by the Guardian, 30 members of Congress warn US president’s Cuba military operation would worsen mass suffering’More than...
07 may
13h00
An epidemic of flies, rats, waste and foul odours’: health fears in Cuba as US oil blockade halts rubbish collection
Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana
As Trump ramps up pressure by cutting off fuel to the island, Havana’s refuse is rarely collected, forcing residents to burn it in the streets...
06 may
12h05
Educated under embargo’: How Cuban doctors vital to Latin America and the Caribbean became under threat by the US
Guardian staff and agencies
The US is blocking the employment of Cuban doctors around the world - and the poorest will suffer the costs Don’t already get The Long Wave in your...
03 may
11h00
Cuba gets trickle of intrepid tourists as Trump’s oil blockade continues
Francisco Pichón
Island’s tourism industry been hit hard by severe US pressure - but some say foreigners should still visitLeslie Simon and Marc Bender had arrived in...
02 may
01h34
Cuba says Trump’s fresh sanctions on its economy amount to collective punishment’
Natricia Duncan and Anthony Lugg in Kingston, and Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro
The US sanctions target people operating in broad sections of Cuban economy, including energy, defence and miningCuba’s government has said new...
30 april
13h00
Cuba is running out of time. We need fuel now to save lives Francisco Pichón
Daniela Mohor and Eric Reidy of the New Humanitarian
With the US blockade cutting off oil, the island’s healthcare has been wrecked, access to clean water lost and babies put at riskFour months into...
26 april
10h00
A sudden gap’: poorest to suffer from Trump’s drive to stop Cuba sending doctors to its neighbours
David C Turner III and Eric Morrison-Smith
People across Latin America and the Caribbean find themselves without care as countries bow to US pressureNovlyn Ebanks, 73, had been due to receive...
23 april
12h00
Trump slammed the door shut on 300,000 asylum seekers. What happened to them?
Agence France-Presse
US policy shift leaves migrants in limbo to retrace perilous journeys south, searching for stabilityTwo small scars on either side of his left thigh...
19 april
11h00
Division is a threat to resistance. Here’s how to build a stronger coalition David C Turner III and Eric Morrison-Smith
People won’t join us just because we’re right. They’ll join if we make them feel like they belong Settle your quarrels, come together, and understand...
02h26
Sincere dialogue needed to ease Cuba’s grave humanitarian crisis’, say Mexico, Spain and Brazil
In joint statement, the three countries call for lasting solution to crisis, without explicitly mentioning the US and its oil blockade Mexico, Spain...
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