On his first day in office, President Donald Trump reinstated Cuba 's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, reversing an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden just last week. Biden had announced plans to lift the designation as part of a Vatican-brokered deal to free political prisoners in Cuba.
President Trump, drunk with arrogance, decides, for no good reason, Cuba sponsors terrorism,” said the Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez.
President Donald Trump plans to terminate a parole program for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela in one of his first acts in office.
Pro-slavery expansionists had long set their sights on the Spanish colony. American filibusters had launched expeditions to conquer the island but failed. However, Franklin Pierce’s win in the 1852 presidential contest gave fresh hope to those keen on securing new lands where slavery could thrive.
Migrants who waited months to cross the U.S. border with Mexico learned their CBP One appointments had been canceled moments after Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
As President Biden moves to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, Cubans refrain from getting their hopes up.
Cuba faced sharp criticism from rights groups, the United States and the European Union following the imprisonment of hundreds of protesters after riots on July 11, 2021, the largest since Castro ...
On January 14, 2025, the government of the United States (US) announced that it has removed Cuba from the State Department list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism. The US also intends ...
Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump on Monday revoked the Biden administration's last-minute decision to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House said.
The EFF has consistently called for the lifting of all sanctions on Cuba, which have crippled its economy and undermined its development for decades. Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the United States has relentlessly pursued an economic embargo and sanctions against Cuba,
On Jan. 24, 2011, a suicide bomb attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport international arrival gate killed 37 people and injured more than 170 others.