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Cubans vote on legalizing same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption. The government urges people to vote in favour of legalization while the Catholic Church urges people to vote against legalization.
2022-09-25

The Cuban government rejects a request from the opposition to hold a protest in Havana on November 15, claiming involvement of the United States government.
2021-10-12

Thousands of Cubans, most of them young, attend a rare anti-government protest in San Antonio de los Baños to protest the increased food and medicine shortages brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of Cubans in Miami, Florida, United States, hold solidarity protests as Mayor Francis Suarez calls for an international intervention against the Cuban government in a press conference.
2021-07-11

The government announces that all flights to and from the island nation are suspended, as of midnight on April 1.
2020-04-1

United States aid worker Alan Gross is sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban jail, ostensibly for working to undermine the Government of Cuba.
2011-03-12

The Cuban Roman Catholic Church claims that the Government of Cuba plans to release 10 dissidents including Óscar Elías Biscet.
2011-03-10

The Government of Cuba releases imprisoned paraplegic dissident Ariel Sigler on humanitarian grounds and transfers six others to more convenient jails.
2010-06-12

The Cuban government eases jail conditions for political prisoners following talks with Catholic Church leaders and President Raúl Castro.
2010-05-23