The first flight carrying "high-threat" deportees from the United States arrives at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The ten deportees are allegedly part of Tren de Aragua, a transnational organized crime group originating from Venezuela recently designated as a terrorist organization by the United States. 2025-02-5
Citizens in Cuba head to the polls to elect the members of the National Assembly. 2023-03-26
Cuban health regulator CECMED approves the emergency use of the domestically-produced Abdala vaccine, becoming the fifth COVID-19 vaccine to be approved in the country. Manufacturers last month claimed that the vaccine, which requires three doses, has a 92% effectiveness rate against the virus. This makes Cuba the first Caribbean and Latin American country to successfully develop its own variation of the vaccine. 2021-07-9
The United Nations General Assembly votes on a slate of new members of the Human Rights Council. The election of certain countries—China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan—draws strong criticism over their human rights records, including from UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, who described the election as "making a gang of arsonists into the fire brigade". 2020-10-13
Nicolás Maduro, the Vice President of Venezuela, warns that President Hugo Chávez faces a "difficult" recovery from cancer surgery in Cuba. 2012-12-12
The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez speaks on Venezuelan television that he is fighting cancer in Cuba. 2011-06-30
An Aero Caribbean passenger plane crashes in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, killing all 68 on board. 2010-11-5
As part of a lengthy interview with the Mexican newspaper "La Jornada", Fidel Castro admits responsibility for the persecution of homosexuals in Cuba after the revolution of 1959.2010-08-31
30 members of the "Ladies in White" opposition movement in Cuba are arrested at a demonstration in the capital Havana. 2010-03-17