Cuba reports a partial collapse of the national power grid, leaving western provinces without electricity after transmission lines fail between Matanzas and Pinar del Río. 2026-08-1
A ww 6.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Bartolomé Masó, Cuba, causing landslides and damage to buildings in the region. 2024-11-10
Nicaragua authorizes the Cuban Abdala and Soberana COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use. 2021-10-2
Colombia's migration authority detains and expels an alleged spy working for Cuba's Intelligence Directorate. 2019-03-16
Hurricane Irma's death toll this week is at least 21 people after recently hitting Cuba and The Bahamas as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (250 km-h). 2017-09-8
Hundreds of thousands of people attend May Day parades in Cuba. 2011-05-1
The Roman Catholic Church in Cuba announces that the government will release two more political prisoners to exile in Spain. 2010-12-24
An Aero Caribbean passenger plane crashes in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, killing all 68 on board. 2010-11-5
Cuba's Speaker of the Parliament Ricardo Alarcón challenges the United States to lift its 48-year embargo on the island if it believes Cuba benefits from the embargo, as Hillary Clinton suggested. 2010-04-25
Haiti acknowledges the immediate international assistance it received from Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela following the recent earthquake and confirms the death toll has reached 150,000. 2010-01-29