Sources: BBC
Cuba reports their first case of a variant from South Africa in an asymptomatic person who travelled from the country. 2021-01-22
The Senate begins to debate the legalization of abortion up until the 14th week of pregnancy. If passed, Argentina will become the third Latin American country to allow abortion to be performed on demand, after Cuba and Uruguay. The Catholic Church opposes the move. The bill has already been approved by the lower house. 2020-12-29
The United States issues a health alert in China, following a government employee reporting "abnormal sensations of sound and pressure", one in a range of physical symptoms, from late 2017 through to April 2018. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the State Department is moving medical teams into place in Guangzhou, adding that the incident was "entirely consistent" with reported "sonic attacks" in Cuba in 2016 and 2017. 2018-05-23
Government officials from Cuba and the U.S. met in Havana, beginning settlement discussions surrounding $1.9 billion worth of U.S. assets seized by Fidel Castro’s regime in the early 1960s. By law, the United States embargo against Cuba cannot cease until settlements are made. [https:--www.washingtonpost.com-world-the_americas-in-major-breakthrough-cuba-and-us-discuss-19billion-in-property-claims-2015-12-08-9bc2ced0-9d23-11e5-9ad2-568d814bbf3b_story.html "(Washington Post)"]2015-12-9
Cuba frees Ivan Hernandez, a dissident who refused to go into exile in Spain. 2011-02-19
Rick Sanchez, a Cuban-born news anchorman with the American channel CNN, is fired by the network after calling comedian Jon Stewart a "bigot", saying Jews are not an oppressed minority in the United States, and implying the people who run CNN and other news media are Jewish. [https:--www.bbc.co.uk-news-11458523 (BBC)] [http:--timesofindia.indiatimes.com-world-us-CNN-fires-anchor-Rick-Sanchez-for-calling-Jon-Stewart-a-bigot-articleshow-6671109.cms ("The Times of India")] [http:--www.nzherald.co.nz-world-news-article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10677702&ref=rss (AP via "The New Zealand Herald")]date=August 2019 2010-10-2
Three more dissidents released by Cuba on humanitarian grounds arrive in Spain. 2010-07-22
Spain receives a group of seven dissidents freed by Cuba for human rights reasons. 2010-07-13
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