Cuba suffers its second nationwide blackout in five days, with state utility UNE reporting a total grid collapse amid fuel shortages, aging power plants and continuing electricity rationing. 2026-07-10
Nicaragua authorizes the Cuban Abdala and Soberana COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use. 2021-10-2
The United Nations votes 184-2 on a resolution ending the embargo on Cuba, with the United States and Israel being the lone no votes. 2021-06-23
Colombia's migration authority detains and expels an alleged spy working for Cuba's Intelligence Directorate. 2019-03-16
The United States and Cuba sign an agreement restoring commercial air traffic between the two countries for the first time in 50 years. The U.S. Department of Transportation immediately opened bidding for as many as 110 U.S.-Cuba flights per day to Havana and nine other destinations. Travel from the U.S. is permitted in 12 authorized categories, which does not include tourism. 2016-02-16
Fidel Castro makes his first public appearance in several months to vote in Cuba's parliamentary elections; he spends an hour talking to voters and the media and a crowd gathers around his car to cheer him. 2013-02-4
Move comes as FARC rebels declare two-month unilateral truce after holding meetings in Cuba with peace negotiators. 2012-11-20
An Aero Caribbean passenger plane crashes in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, killing all 68 on board. 2010-11-5
Havana's Roman Catholic Church says Cuba is to release 3 more political prisoners who will be allowed leave for Spain. 2010-10-10
An American judge sentences a former State Department worker to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and his wife to 6¾ years for spying for Cuba for three decades. 2010-07-16