María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), whose family was exiled from Cuba, agreed with Rubio’s reaction to Nicaragua’s new laws. “I’ve said it before: after Cuba, Nicaragua must be next.

You don't even want to know how much I've spent on trips to Cuba over the years." For Americans, the burdensome process of traveling to Cuba is, suddenly, almost seamless. A federal affidavit has become a box you click on an airline website.

U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway's dining room is on display at Finca Vigia, his home in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, June 15, 2016.

Mélenchon, LFI’s presidential candidate and a former deputy of the National Assembly, once belonged to the International Communist Organization (OCI) and has voiced support for socialist regimes, including those of China, Cuba, and Venezuela.

Essentially, the Castro regime has been put in the driver's seat of U.S. policy toward the island since Obama announced his new Cuba policy.

Another defendant charged is Yodel Delgado Suarez, also known as “Viking,” 35, of Cuba, who is a prolific recruiter for the Russian Intelligence Services network.

-Cuba travel, with about 300 flights a week connecting the U.S. with an island cut off from most Americans by the 55-year-old trade embargo on Cuba and formal ban on U.S. citizens engaging in tourism on the island.

However, the website does absurdly charge Secretary of State Marco Rubio with “genocide” because he supports an embargo on Cuba. Clearly, the DSA sees words and concepts as mere political tools.

We will stand with the oppressed Cuban people for a free and democratic Cuba." The tyrant #Castro is dead. New hope dawns. We will stand with the oppressed Cuban people for a free and democratic Cuba. Viva Cuba Libre!

That had infuriated the Cuban government, which accused the U.S. of waging an economic war against Cuba around the world that overrode other countries' laws allowing business with Cuba.

On February 18, 2026, Nudelman testified in support of the Victims of Communism Day bill before the Georgia House Committee on Special Rules, alongside Jose Perez, who escaped Castro's Cuba at age twelve.

In a June 19 interview with Axios, the U.S. president said that the timing of any potential action in Cuba remains “flexible,” declining to offer details. Trump praised Rubio’s work on Cuba. “Marco’s doing a great job.

Cuba was redesignated as a state sponsor of terrorism in January 2021 during Trump’s first term in office.

Flights to Cuba will be available from Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis/St.Paul. 

Similar fears have stopped other banks from authorizing the use of their credit cards in Cuba. Cubans can open Stonegate accounts in the United States but are barred from accessing them from Cuba.

*Image of horse and a cart on a street in Trinidad, Cuba via Shutterstock

Though Obama had long been expected to visit Cuba in his final year, word of his travel plans drew immediate resistance from opponents of warmer ties with Cuba — including Republican presidential candidates. Texas Sen.

Cuba and the U.S. announced last week direct mail service would restart after a 52-year interruption.

PARIS—Cuba has reached a landmark agreement with foreign creditors over billions of dollars in unpaid debt dating back 25 years.

Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) said the new State Department report on Cuba was authored as a means to justify U.S. military action against Cuba. Pocan was among four Democratic lawmakers who visited Cuba earlier this month.

It's a pattern witnessed repeatedly in bringing communist-backed regimes to power in Cuba, South Africa, Iran, Rhodesia, Nicaragua, and many other countries. Why was this?

“What we see in Cuba is a humanitarian crisis of the island's own making,” Pigott said.

against the U.S. military base in Cuba at Guantanamo Bay using drones."

Obama arrived at Jose Marti International Airport in Cuba on March 20 for a three-day visit, the first time a United States president has set foot in Cuba in 88 years.

(Alex Wong/Getty Images) As he left for his trip to China this week, Trump said: “Cuba is not doing well. It’s a failed nation, and we'll be talking about ‌Cuba at ⁠the right time."

Cuba has suffered several nationwide blackouts in the past year, before U.S. President Donald Trump cut off oil deliveries to Cuba from Venezuela in January, exacerbating the situation.

As part of that order, Trump threatened to impose sanctions on any country selling oil to Cuba. Cuba has suffered a worsening energy crisis because of U.S. restrictions on oil supplies to the island.

If owning your own business and having the right to vote is possible around Cuba, why is it not possible for you in Cuba?” Cubans can get back to this life. They used to have it.

But there has been virtually no progress on business ties, a major part of Obama's new policy on Cuba.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) asked Special Envoy Bernard Aronson—who had just returned from Cuba—about a Cuba-bound Chinese ship loaded with weapons that was intercepted by the Colombian navy.