Sources: Straits Times
Hurricane Rafael approaches the southern coast of Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, triggering mass evacuations amid warnings of life-threatening flash flooding and storm surges. 2024-11-6
Carnival Cruise Lines says it will postpone its first cruise in 50 years from the United States to Havana, if Cuba does not waive its rule and allow Cuban-Americans passengers. Current Cuban law does not allow those born on the island to return by sea. 2016-04-18
Amnesty International designates Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado as a prisoner of conscience. 2015-09-29
Fidel Castro makes his first public appearance in several months to vote in Cuba's parliamentary elections; he spends an hour talking to voters and the media and a crowd gathers around his car to cheer him. 2013-02-4
The peace talks between FARC and the Colombian government will take place in October in Norway and then in Cuba. 2012-09-4
The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez returns home after three weeks in Cuba for cancer surgery. 2012-03-15
More than 30 political prisoners go on hunger strike at Insein Prison in Burma to protest against their treatment. 2011-05-24
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
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