U.S. President Joe Biden announces that the United States will remove Cuba from its state sponsors of terrorism list as part of a prisoner release deal. 2025-01-14
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urges the Cuban military to stage a coup in Cuba. He also urges the Biden administration to "restore internet access to Cuba". 2021-07-15
The United States declares Cuba a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Cuba was removed from the list by the Obama administration in 2015 during the Cuban thaw. 2021-01-11
The United States permanently downgrades their embassy in Havana, making its status 'unaccompanied', meaning a post at which no family members are permitted to reside. The status change comes after alleged health attacks. 2018-03-2
An anonymous senior State Department official says that United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson decided to convene a special-panel Accountability Review Board to further investigate the "attacks" at the U.S. embassy in Havana. 2018-01-9
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake tells Cuban officials there is "no evidence" of a suspected sonic attack on U.S. diplomats at the U.S. embassy in Havana. 2018-01-6
The Trump administration, through the Department of State and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, expels 15 Cuban diplomats, after pulling half of its own embassy staff from Havana on Sept. 29, due to the alleged failure of Cuba to take appropriate steps to protect American personnel against the mysterious health attacks. 2017-10-3
Two Cuban diplomats are expelled from the Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., after an incident in Havana forced U.S. officials to return home. 2017-08-9
A major indication that relations between Cuba and the U.S. are increasingly normalized will be the island nation’s participation later this month at an annual Caribbean security conference in Jamaica, according to the outgoing head of the United States Southern Command, General John F. Kelly. 2016-01-13
Cuba starts releasing political prisoners as part of an historic agreement with the United States announced last month. 2015-01-6