Sources: Straits Times
Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in Cuba amid a national electrical blackout. 2024-10-20
Nicaragua authorizes the Cuban Abdala and Soberana COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use. 2021-10-2
Cuba reports a record 8,853 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. 2021-07-25
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
An expert committee of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine releases a report, concluding that "directed" microwave radiation was the likely cause of illnesses among American diplomats in Cuba and China. 2020-12-6
Twitter suspends several Cuban government and state media accounts, including First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Raúl Castro and his daughter Mariela Castro. The pro-government Union of Journalists of Cuba denounces the suspensions as "massive censorship". 2019-09-12
The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez is recovering from the removal of a tumour from his pelvis in a Cuban hospital. 2012-02-29
Cuba releases 7 political prisoners and sends them into exile in Spain, the first in a wave of 52. 2010-07-12
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