How Tourist Agencies Are Scamming Vacationers to Cuba

An outdoor café of the Iberostar Selection Hotel in Havana, in the Torre K, empty. / 14ymedio Twenty years after her first idyllic trip to Cuba, Marina, from Spain, discovers a devastated country and deplorable service in 5-star hotels. By Yaiza...

Cuban Foreign Minister: Palestinian issue is test of credibility of international system & United Nations

Cuban Foreign Minister: Palestinian issue is test of credibility of international system & United Nations Havana – Saba: Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla affirmed today, Thursday, that the Palestinian issue is not merely an...

Rolling Back the Big Beautiful Bill’s Health Care Provisions Would Not Provide Health Care to Undocumented Immigrants

Drishti Pillai Oct 2, 2025 Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally-funded health coverage. The GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill didn’t change that. Overturning the health care provisions in the law won’t either. In the midst of the ongoing...

 HCM City’s people hold Cuba in special regard: city leader

HCM CITY — The people of HCM City, like all Vietnamese, hold Cuba in special regard, Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Trần Lưu Quang told President of the National Assembly of People's Power and President of the Council of State of Cuba...

Las Tunas Professionals Awarded as Meritorious Artist of Cuban Television

Eddys Crespo Vargas and Raúl Verdecie Fernández, multi-award-winning professionals from TunasVisión, deserved the title of Artist of Merit of Cuban Television, news that was announced during the celebration of the National Telecenters Festival....

What to Do When the Cuban Police Do Nothing?

By Amado Viera HAVANA TIMES – Claudia Rafaela Ortiz and Yamila Zayas Toledo never met. And they probably never would have, even in the hypothetical case that Yamila had not been murdered on September 26 by the very man she had reported to the...

Bringing the timeless sound of Cuban classics to Dubai

The soul of Havana is set to ignite Dubai as Estrellas de Buena Vista y Más, featuring original members of the legendary Buena Vista Social Club, take the stage at the Dubai World Trade Centre on October 22, 2025. This evening will transport...

Cuban foreign minister says Rubio’s ‘personal and corrupt’ agenda risks peace prospects

NEW YORK (AP): Recent US escalations in the Caribbean are a result of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “personal” agenda against the region, Cuba’s top diplomat said, adding that his American counterpart is increasingly pushing policies that do...

PBS Taught Me English. Shutting It Down Hurts Immigrant Kids.

As a child growing up in a Spanish-speaking, immigrant household, I had limited resources available to teach me English. My parents came to this country out of necessity in the 1980s from war-torn Nicaragua. My father worked in construction and...

Cultural event "Tea for Harmony: Yaji Cultural Salon" held in Havana, Cuba

Two Chinese teachers from the Confucius Institute at the University of Havana perform during a cultural event "Tea for Harmony: Yaji Cultural Salon" in Havana, capital of Cuba, Sept. 30, 2025. (Photo by Joaquin Hernandez/Xinhua) Students from the...

Cuba Complains U.S. Won't Give Officials Visas for W.H.O. Regional Meeting

Cuba’s communist regime accused the United States of engaging in “discriminatory treatment” by allegedly refusing to allow Deputy Health Minister Tania Margarita Cruz to participate in an event for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a...

Workshop brings music, culture to rural children

Weaving Worlds tour will include a performance, community children’s workshop at Gin Gin and community voice workshop in Bundaberg. Photo: Jithin Mathew / supplied. A free interactive workshop is returning to the region to bring a vibrant blend of...

Culture to Do: Oct. 1, 2025

Ballet Hispánico Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall, UMass Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Ballet Hispánico was founded only six years before the Fine Arts Center’s inaugural season. It had already established itself as a force in American dance...

Vietnamese, Cuban top legislators chair inter-parliamentary cooperation meeting

HÀ NỘI — The second meeting of the Việt Nam-Cuba Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Committee took place on Wednesday morning in Hà Nội, co-chaired by National Assembly (NA) Chairman Trần Thanh Mẫn and Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the...

Judge Connie Mallafre-Melendez, the first and only Cuban-American elected to the New York State Supreme Court, honored at Hispanic Heritage celebration

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — In celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, the Brooklyn Bar Association, the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Puerto Rican Bar Association, the Latino Judges Association and the Dominican Bar Association collectively...

The facts behind the shutdown debate over health care and immigrants in U.S. illegally

One of the main lines of attack the White House and Republican lawmakers have leveled against Democrats amid the government shutdown is the claim that Democratic lawmakers want to give immigrants in the U.S. illegally free healthcare — which...

Cuba and Namibia: a history of close relations

Since Díaz-Canel visited Namibia in 2023, agreements have been adopted to strengthen economic and trade ties. Photo: Estudios Revolución The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel...

From West Tampa With Love: The Brisket Shoppe’s Cuban-Infused BBQ

FOX 13 photojournalist Travis Anthony heads to West Tampa to visit The Brisket Shoppe. TAMPA, Fla. - In the heart of West Tampa, a neighborhood rich with Hispanic heritage, Chef Danny Hernandez is redefining barbecue with a cultural twist. Raised...

JD Vance - Republicans falsely tie shutdown to Democrats wanting health care for immigrants illegally in the US

As the U.S. headed for a government shutdown, Republicans repeatedly accused Democrats of forcing the closure because they want to give health care access to immigrants in the U.S. illegally. "Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire...

Trump Admin Deports Former Cuban Judge Who Sentenced Anti-Regime Protesters: 'Inadmissible Due To Her Affiliation'

The Trump administration deported a former judge who worked in Cuba and sentenced people who protested against the regime, according to a new report. The Miami Herald detailed that Melody Gonzalez Pedraza was deported last week, with a...