Sources: BBC
Cuba restores its power after the power grid collapsed the previous day. 2026-03-22
Ten people are killed and 25 more are injured after a truck carrying mostly Cuban migrants overturned between Pijijiapan and Tonalá in Chiapas, Mexico. 2023-10-1
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
Voters in Cuba are asked whether they approve of a new constitution that gives criminal defendants the presumption of innocence, recognizes private property, bans some forms of discrimination, creates a term limit for the president, and restores the position of Prime Minister. 2019-02-24
The President of the United States Barack Obama announces that he will visit Cuba next month becoming the first American president to visit Cuba since 1928. 2016-02-18
Venezuelan Cabinet ministers get together to pray for the recovery of President Hugo Chávez, who is in Cuba recovering from a cancer operation. 2012-12-31
Coca-Cola returns to Myanmar after 60 years, leaving North Korea and Cuba as the only two countries in the world where the company does not do business. 2012-06-16
Cuba refuses to grant a visa to dissident Guillermo Fariñas so that he could receive the Sakharov Prize in France. 2010-12-15
The Cuban government considers another large-scale round of political prisoner releases after the release of 52 in July. 2010-10-4
Cuban President Raúl Castro pledges to ease state control of the economy. 2010-08-2