Cuba approves sweeping market reforms
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The State Department on Friday slammed Cuba's newly announced economic reforms as "superficial smoke signals" that are far too modest to be meaningful.
Trump administration rolls out unprecedented secondary sanctions on Cuba targeting foreign firms doing business with military-linked conglomerate GAESA.
The emergency economic package comes amid an ongoing US pressure campaign that has left the island nation reeling.
Mexican president says Cuba faces a difficult situation requiring international solidarity as US tightens its decades-old embargo
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that significantly hardens sanctions on the Cuban government, authorizing sanctions on foreign companies and banks that do business with Cuba. Cuba is under a comprehensive U.S. trade and financial ...
Thousands of claims by American citizens and companies for properties nationalized in Cuba are now worth billions.
It also said 100,000 children younger than 7 are no longer receiving the daily liter of milk previously provided by the state and that the country’s 16-vaccine immunization program for infants is “at risk.
According to official statistics cited by Cubadebate, the survival rate for children with cancer in Cuba has fallen from 85 percent to 65 percent since the United States imposed restrictions on oil supplies to the island and intensified its sanctions.