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Cuban Americans gather at the Florida State Capitol in solidarity with protesters in Cuba.
2021-07-15

The government announces that all flights to and from the island nation are suspended, as of midnight on April 1.
2020-04-1

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

President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez returns home after successfully completing of a course of radiotherapy for cancer in Cuba.
2012-05-12

Cuba claims U.S. President Barack Obama was forced to use his "imperial veto" to stop the summit calling for an end to the U.S. embargo against it.
2012-04-18

United States aid worker Alan Gross is sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban jail, ostensibly for working to undermine the Government of Cuba.
2011-03-12

The Obama administration in the United States eases travel and other restrictions on Cuba.
2011-01-14

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

Two children are prevented by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver from enrolling in a Catholic school in Boulder, Colorado, United States because their parents are lesbians.
2010-03-11