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Cuba and South Korea establish diplomatic relations after exchanging letters via their United Nations representatives.
2024-02-14

Cubans hold a pro-Palestine protest at the Embassy of the United States in Havana, Cuba.
2023-11-23

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom adds Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group to its blacklist of countries and organizations violating international religious freedom, signalling possible sanctions by the U.S. government.
2022-12-2

Cuba recognizes cryptocurrency as legal tender, becoming the second nation to do so after El Salvador.
2021-08-27

Cuba reports 9,323 cases of COVID-19, a new single-day record.
2021-07-28

Cuba loosens some regulations on state-run companies and farmers, and allows for U.S. dollars to be used in internal trade, as the country seeks to revitalize its economy in the midst of both the COVID-19 pandemic in the region and the economic decline of its trading partner Venezuela.
2020-07-29

Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez unilaterally blames the National Liberation Army for the 2019 Bogotá car bombing, and suspends ongoing peace talks with the group, requesting that the Cuban government arrest the ten guerrilla group members leading the negotiations in Havana.
2019-01-18

President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
2015-04-14

Cuba announces plans to cut up to half a million public sector jobs to revive the island's economy, in the biggest private sector shift since the 1959 revolution.
2010-09-13

Cuban President Raúl Castro pledges to ease state control of the economy.
2010-08-2