Cuba’s national women’s volleyball team was denied U.S. visas to attend a final four tournament in Puerto Rico next month organized by the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA). Cuba’s Volleyball Federation slammed the decision, calling it “unfair and discriminatory.”

The U.S. recently nominated Cuban dissident Rosa María Payá to join the OAS’s Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The independent panel evaluating Payá and the other candidates concluded that she “generally meets the evaluation criteria.” But they also stated to have “specific concerns regarding her experience and potential conflicts of interest.”

Former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, convicted of corruption and acting as a foreign agent, begins his prison sentence. Once a key architect of hardline Cuba policy, Menendez now faces a far different reality. Watch our documentary Hardliner on the Hudson.

Trump's travel ban is ostensibly aimed at terrorists and would-be immigrants. But in Cuba those affected include students, scientists, academics and entrepreneurs who have no intention of living in the U.S.

The Bahamas on Monday announced it would cancel contracts with Cuban doctors after talks with Washington.

The DHS last week began sending notices to immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua who entered the U.S. through Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program that they must “self-deport” because their parole is “terminated” and their work permit “revoked.”

University students across the island have publicly criticized the recent cell data price hikes by ETECSA, Cuba’s state-run telecommunications company, with some calling for a student strike.

ETECSA, Cuba’s state-run telecommunications company, has announced a new limit of 6 GB of data per person per month that can be bought for 360 Cuban pesos (approximately US$1 in Cuba’s informal market).

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday announced U.S. visa restrictions on several Central American government officials and their family members for their involvement in receiving Cuban medical personnel that the U.S. deems victims of "forced labor." It's not clear which officials from which countries are being targeted.

Despite ongoing deportation flights, Cuba’s efforts to restart migration talks with the U.S. are being ignored. Cuban officials say Marco Rubio’s State Department is blocking dialogue.

Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement last week saying it had issued a “verbal note of protest” to U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Michael Hammer for his “disrespectful conduct.”

Cuba’s national men’s basketball team was supposed to play their final game of the FIBA AmeriCup qualifiers last February in Puerto Rico. But the players never made the flight. Cuba had to forfeit the match when nearly all its players as well as the coaches and support staff were denied U.S. visas to attend the game.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced U.S. visa restrictions on several Central American government officials for their involvement in receiving Cuban medical personnel that the U.S. deems victims of "forced labor." 

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.