Cuba begins releasing more than 2,000 prisoners
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Experts don't expect military action soon. But actual regime change is complicated.
Since January, the Trump administration has effectively blockaded nearly all oil shipments to Cuba, causing conditions on the island to deteriorate dramatically. Electricity is becoming more unreliable,
Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba, according to Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov. The announcement on Thursday comes just two days after the Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas with 730,
Cuba’s top diplomat says the island is open to economic cooperation, outlining a roadmap for closer ties even as Trump pushes regime change.
The announcement of a second shipment follows the arrival of a first oil tanker sent by the Kremlin earlier this week.
Dozens of congressional Democrats sent a letter to President Trump on Thursday raising urgent alarm over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Cuba that has been made worse, they said, by the administration’s fuel quarantine against the island.
A shipment of Russian crude delivered to Cuba is expected to sustain the island's electricity system and key economic activities for about 10 days.
HAVANA (AP) — FBI agents have arrived in Cuba to investigate the fatal shooting of five men aboard a U.S.-flagged speedboat in February that the Cuban government said was carrying suspects who were trying to infiltrate the island.
A fuel tanker that according to ship tracking services loaded a Russia-origin cargo originally bound for Cuba began discharging on Thursday at an independently-owned terminal in Venezuela, according to vessel monitoring data and a source.