Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba; at least 28 dead

Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba; at least 28 dead

People across the northern Caribbean are beginning to dig out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa, as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed to at least 28 across Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, with Haiti reporting most of those fatalities. On Thursday, Melissa was moving away from the Bahamas …

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Trump Did What Castros Couldn’t: Take Radio Martí Off the Air

Trump Did What Castros Couldn’t: Take Radio Martí Off the Air

Journalists from Radio Martí, the U.S. federally-funded news outlet aimed at communist Cuba, were in the middle of interviewing a Cuban activist in Miami on a recent Saturday when bleak looks suddenly came over their faces. The 40-year-old news agency, designed to send uncensored news in Spanish into Cuba, had …

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Biden Will Remove Cuba From List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

Biden Will Remove Cuba From List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

President Biden will remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, U.S. officials announced on Tuesday, as a part of a deal that is expected to free protesters jailed during a sweeping 2021 crackdown on dissent by the Communist government. Removing Cuba from the list would typically raise …

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