Sources: Straits Times
Hundreds of people protest in eastern Cuba against ongoing food shortages and power outages. 2024-03-18
Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power approves a law banning commemorative statues of late President Fidel Castro, and the naming of public places after him, in accordance with the wishes of Castro, who died last month. 2016-12-27
Pope Francis returns to Rome after finishing his trip to Cuba and the United States. 2015-09-28
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
Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, undergoes cancer surgery in Cuba. 2012-12-11
Bahraini uprising: After demanding the cancellation of the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix, the end of the crackdown on dissent, and the release of her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja on hunger strike in prison for the past 76 days, Zainab al-Khawaja is arrested by regime forces. 2012-04-24
Cuba and its partners announce plans to drill for oil in Cuban waters in the Gulf of Mexico. 2011-04-5
Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas ends a 134 day hunger strike after the Cuban government is to release 52 political prisoners. 2010-07-8
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
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