Sources: Straits Times
Hurricane Ian's death toll increases to 130, with 125 deaths in the United States and five in Cuba, making it the 24th deadliest hurricane in US history. 2022-10-6
Cuba begins a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign for children aged two to 18 years old as a condition to reopen schools for in-person learning using Abdala and Soberana vaccines. 2021-09-3
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
Five deaths occurred in Haiti as Tropical Storm Erika dumped heavy rains there, on the Dominican Republic, and on Puerto Rico. The storm weakened to a Tropical Depression before it hit Cuba (max winds 56 kph (35 mph), heading to the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. 2015-08-29
Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, announces that he has cancer again. Preparing to travel to Havana, Cuba, for further cancer surgery, he named Vice President Nicolás Maduro to carry out his legacy if he is unable to remain in office. 2012-12-8
Hurricane Sandy heads towards The Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba and Jamaica. 2012-10-25
Seven prisoners from Amasya Prison in Turkey say that they began "indefinite and irreversible" hunger strikes on October 5, and their health is at serious risk. 2012-10-11
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez makes his first speech since receiving treatment for cancer in Cuba. 2011-07-1
Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas ends a 134 day hunger strike after the Cuban government is to release 52 political prisoners. 2010-07-8
Cuban President Raúl Castro "laments" the death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata, who was on a hunger strike for more than 80 days in protest of prison conditions in the country. 2010-02-24