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Cuban authorities announce that the country will tighten its measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and require all tourists to isolate after visiting the island until they test negative.
2021-01-30

Pope Francis meets with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow in Havana, Cuba. It is the first time that the heads of the Roman Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox Church have ever met.
2016-02-12

Cuba starts releasing political prisoners as part of an historic agreement with the United States announced last month.
2015-01-6

Cuba announces that it will release 2,900 prisoners – including some political prisoners – in the next few days.
2011-12-24

The Roman Catholic Church in Cuba announces that the government will release two more political prisoners to exile in Spain.
2010-12-24

Cuba frees political prisoner Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique, one of 13 prisoners who had refused to go into exile in exchange for their freedom.
2010-11-14

Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas ends a 134 day hunger strike after the Cuban government is to release 52 political prisoners.
2010-07-8

President of the United States Barack Obama requests that Cuba's leaders release all political prisoners, describing human rights there as "deeply disturbing".
2010-03-25

Authorities in Cuba are investigating the death of 26 patients at a psychiatric hospital after a spell of unusually cold weather.
2010-01-16