Cuba’s population has declined nearly 13% from 2020 through 2024, according to recently released data by the island’s National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI). In 2024, the population was 9.7 million, 1.4 million less than in 2020.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the Trump administration can revoke the legal status of more than half a million people from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti who entered the U.S through Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program. 

U.S. claims of Chinese spy bases in Cuba are back — again. From recycled rumors to satellite guesswork, we unpack the shaky evidence behind this narrative and why it keeps resurfacing in Washington

The Trump administration killed Chevron’s license extension for its operations in Venezuela in order to secure the votes of three Cuban-American politicians from South Florida on Trump’s "big, beautiful" spending bill last week, Marc Caputo reported for Axios.

The State Department’s special envoy for Latin America Mauricio Claver-Carone told Bloomberg he is leaving the Trump administration later this month.

The State Department placed Cuba back on the list of countries “not fully cooperating” with U.S. counterterrorism efforts a year after Biden had removed Cuba from the list. The reasoning behind the designation is that Cuba refuses to discuss the return of “U.S. fugitives from justice” as well as “other recent circumstances of non-cooperation,” according to a statement by spokesperson Tammy Bruce. The statement does not provide any details as to those circumstances.

Marco Rubio has issued a public notice that Cuban diplomats in the United States must notify the Department of State before any visits to or “engagements” with representatives of schools, local or state governments, agricultural facilities or national laboratories.

A Clark College Jazz Band trip to Cuba was blocked by the U.S. Treasury Dept. after their request to “participate in musical cultural exchanges with Cuban musical students” was deemed “inconsistent” with U.S. policy.

U.S. companies are cutting ties with their Cuban partners due to pressure from the Trump administration. Expedia has stopped bookings in Cuba and Airbnb has “paused” the listings of Cuban hosts.

This week, we look at what the Trump administration’s first 100 days have meant for Cuba… and much more.

The Trump administration is stopping migration talks with Cuba, a senior State Department official reportedly told the media outlet Café Fuerte.

Pope Francis, who died this week, was the first Latin American leader of the world’s over one billion Catholics, a critic of cutthroat capitalism and a key player in efforts to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba.

A Miami jury said Cuban American Mario Echevarría and his family are owed close to $30 million (or possibly as much as $119.4 million total) from Expedia, Hotels.com and Orbitz because they booked hotel rooms on an island off the coast of Cuba that he claims his family owned.

The New York Times makes no bones about its disdain for Donald Trump.

But when it comes to his Cuba policy, the “paper of record” rarely bothers to hold the administration to account and its shoddy reporting legitimizes the U.S. government's ongoing economic war on the island.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) last week barred scientists in six “countries of concern” from accessing 21 biomedical databases – a vast network of vital healthcare resources related to an array of conditions from Alzheimer’s to cancer. The ban impacts Cuba, China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea.