Fears Mount in Cuba as DOJ Reportedly Prepares to Criminally Indict Raúl Castro

Cuba’s top diplomat in the United States on Friday underscored the inviolability of her country’s sovereignty amid tenuous negotiations with the Trump administration and mounting fears that the US is planning to criminally indict a former Cuban president and possibly invade the island to abduct him. Cuban Chargé d’Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera told The Hill that her country’s socialist…
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US Surveillance Flights Over Cuba Have Increased Since Early February

US surveillance and reconnaissance flights off the coast of Cuba have surged in recent months as President Donald Trump has issued increasingly belligerent threats to seize the island nation by force. CNN reported Sunday that the U.S. Navy and Air Force have conducted more than two dozen surveillance flights — mostly of them near Havana and Santiago de Cuba, the country’s largest cities…
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Omar Condemns Cuba Oil Blockade as “Economic Warfare” Amid Third Total Blackout

The U.S.’s oil blockade on Cuba, a small island country already suppressed from decades of a comprehensive U.S. embargo, amounts to “economic warfare,” the purpose of which is to “suffocate” the country, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) said on Saturday as Cuba was plunged into its second nationwide blackout in a week. “We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed…
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Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba — Its Oil Reserves Could Be Empty by March

In accordance with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s long-standing vendetta against Cuba, Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck. Trump’s order preposterously declared Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat,” without providing a shred of evidence, and warned that he would impose punitive tariffs on states that deliver fuel…
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Canada to Send Aid to Cuba as Trump’s Oil Embargo Fuels Humanitarian Catastrophe

The Canadian government on Monday announced plans to send aid to Cuba, which is currently being squeezed economically by a US oil embargo. As reported by the Associated Press, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand revealed that the government is “preparing a plan to assist,” adding that “we are not prepared at this point to provide any details” of what it will entail.
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