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The queen of salsa, Celia Cruz, was not only a music legend, but also a symbol of resilience, leaving Cuba after Fidel Castro’s rise to power and never returning.
The man accused of killing Cuban reggaeton star El Taiger in Miami faced a first-degree murder charge Thursday instead of a second-degree murder charge.
A South Florida-based Coast Guard crew repatriated 12 Cuban migrants back to the island Wednesday following two migration attempts, Coast Guard officials confirmed in a news release.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday used a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act to announce that his administration plans to send the “worst criminal aliens” to detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A 26-year-old woman faces five years to life in federal prison after pleading guilty to playing a role in a human smuggling operation that left more than a dozen Cuban migrants dead at sea in 2022.
After Cuban officials released him from prison, José Daniel Ferrer asked his fellow dissidents during an interview with Marti Noticias Thursday to remain fearless.
President Joe Biden has notified Congress of his intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, the White House announced, as part of a deal facilitated by the Catholic Church to free political prisoners on the island.
Santa Claus now comes in a pink Miami soccer uniform, holding a six-pointed starred “piñata” and a “maraca,” or wearing a white “Guayabera” with a Cuban cigar in its pocket.
After a nationwide blackout left millions without electricity for several hours in Cuba, the power grid has been restored, authorities said, adding that scheduled power outages will now resume.
Miami-Dade County prosecutors charged a 49-year-old Hialeah man on Wednesday with the murder of Jose Manuel Carbajal Zaldivar, better known as Cuban singer El Taiger. He was 37.
Hurricane Rafael has pushed into the Gulf of Mexico after plowing across western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane with winds so powerful it knocked out the entire country’s power grid.
Tropical Storm Rafael has strengthened to near hurricane intensity as it barrels toward the Cayman Islands and Cuba, where it was forecast to hit as a full hurricane.
Authorities announced Wednesday that a man who was known to be friends with Cuban rapper El Taiger has been named the primary suspect in his murder, marking a significant development in the high-profile case.
Cuba’s large-scale blackouts that left 10 million people without power this month wouldn’t have happened if the government had built out more solar power to boost its failing electric grid as promised, some experts say.
EL TAIGER'S DEATH: Records show Miami police's "person of interest" in the case is a convicted felon who lived in Hialeah as a registered sex offender. He had also been detained by immigration authorities twice.
Top U.S. intelligence officials say Russia and China are seeking to meddle with specific U.S. House and Senate races this election year.
Miami Police Chief Manuel A. Morales said Friday morning that the investigation into the shooting of Cuban reggaetón artist Jose “El Taiger” Carbajal was ongoing.
Tropical Storm Helene formed in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday after bringing heavy rains and big waves to the Cayman Islands.
State troopers arrested Cuban rapper Ovi Tuesday following a road rage incident in which he brandished a gun the day prior, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The U.S. State Department did not address the concerns that several outraged lawmakers in South Florida had about a “Cuban communist party operative” who was legally allowed to be in the United States.
Several South Florida lawmakers are outraged after a former high ranking leader of the communists party was recently allowed to migrate to the Unites States.
“The Queen of Salsa” has earned a special place in history. Celia Cruz is one of five honorees to be selected for the 2024 American Women Quarters Program, now available for purchase.
Thirty Cuban migrants are now in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol after making landfall Wednesday on the Marquesas Keys -- uninhabited islands west of Key West.
Three Russian warships have arrived in Cuban waters, Moscow’s second such maritime voyage in as many months in a reflection of deepening ties between Russia and Cuba.
The federal government will not seek restitution from a former career American diplomat who acted as a spy for the Cuban government for decades.
The federal government will not seek restitution from a former career American diplomat who acted as a spy for the Cuban government for decades.
A fleet of Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, has left Havana’s port after a five-day visit to Cuba following planned military drills in the Atlantic Ocean.
He was the poetic voice of the Cuban Revolution, an inspiration for millions of Latin Americans living under dictatorships throughout the 1960s and 1970s who dreamt of the ideal Cuba that he — and his guitar — helped evoke.
A U.S. Navy submarine has pulled into Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of Russian warships gather for planned military exercises in the Caribbean.
Nearly a dozen Cuban migrants are now in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol after making landfall Monday at a beach in Key West, authorities confirmed.
Four Russian ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Havana next week, Cuban officials said Thursday, citing “historically friendly relations” between both nations and as tensions escalate over Western military support for Ukraine in its war with Russia.
The U.S. is lifting some financial restrictions on Cuba in a move designed to boost private businesses on the island.
Raul Masvidal, a banker and real estate developer who The New York Times referred to as a Cuban-American civic leader and The Miami Herald as “the most powerful Cuban in Miami” in the 1980s, died on Tuesday. He was 82.
The 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has removed Cuba from the State Department's short list of countries deemed as not cooperating as much as they could in counterterrorism efforts.
Luis Escalante and Vicenta Polanco went back to their home country of Cuba with a promise for two women, police say: They would help smuggle them off the island and get them jobs working as exotic dancers in South Florida.
A former career American diplomat was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday after authorities say he served as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades in what prosecutors portrayed as one of the most brazen and long-running betrayals in the history of the U.S. foreign service.
After the 1959 revolution, Cuba repressed gay people and many were sent to labor camps.
In a news conference hosted by U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Florida, local leaders and activists voiced their concerns Monday amid ongoing street protests sparked by power outages and food shortages in Cuba.
Small groups of protesters have taken to the streets in the eastern Cuba city of Santiago decryng power outages lasting up to eight hours across the Caribbean nation.
Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident and leading proponent of human rights who was imprisoned twice but never left the island, will be awarded the 2024 International Women of Courage Award, a recognition granted by the U.S. Department of State.
A former career U.S. diplomat says he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades.
Luis Garcia-Blanco, a Cuban who had arrived in Miami on the Mariel boatlift, was accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend Maricel Gutierrez in the head with a machine gun in 1980, in Miami-Dade. He had allegedly also cut off her finger and kept it in a Bible.
Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group have reached a last-minute deal to extend a cease-fire that began last year by six months.
Crowds come from around the world to see a slice of Cuban culture in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. The historic community has been deemed a national treasure, and yet it is drowning in street litter.
Thirty Cuban migrants are now in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol after making landfall Wednesday on the Marquesas Keys -- uninhabited islands west of Key West.
The Justice Department says a former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been charged with serving as a covert agent for Cuba’s intelligence services since at least 1981.
The Associated Press has learned that a former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation and is accused of secretly serving as an agent of the Cuban government.
The family that runs the Las Vegas Sands casino company says it has entered agreements to buy the majority stake of the Dallas Mavericks from team owner Mark Cuban.
Thousands of people led by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel have marched along Havana’s iconic boardwalk in solidarity with the Palestinian people and demanding an end to the war between Israel and Hamas.
Four out of five people in Mexico who got influenza shots so far this year turned down the government's recommendation they get Russian or Cuban COVID-19 boosters at the same time.
Former President Donald Trump has appealed to South Florida’s Cuban community during a rally aimed at upstaging his 2024 Republican presidential rivals while they engaged in their third debate without him a half-hour’s drive away.
Kenya’s government has announced that it won’t renew a deal that saw Cuban doctors employed in Kenya while those from the East African country travelled to Cuba for specialized training.
Cuba's ambassador to the United States says an incident in which at least one incendiary device was thrown into the Cuban embassy compound was a “terrorist attack.”.
Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs says the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. was “the target of a terrorist attack” Sunday night when two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the building, ABC News reported.
Soon after Felix Llerena arrived in Miami in 2017, the Cuban activist was drawn to then-President Donald Trump by the Republican's aggressive approach toward Cuba’s communist government.
On Monday, the Cuban government reported that law enforcement on the island was working to “neutralize and dismantle” a human trafficking ring related to the Russian war in Ukraine.
Authorities with the U.S. Border Patrol and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office stopped a suspected human smuggling operation involving more than 20 migrants Thursday morning.
Six Cuban migrants landed in the Florida Keys early Tuesday morning, according to a top official with the U.S. Border Patrol.
A long way from home and playing in its first Little League World Series game ever, Cuba allowed just one hit Wednesday, but got no-hit in a 1-0 loss to Japan in an opening round game.
Little League has been hosting its World Series in Williamsport since 1947, yet it will be welcoming a new guest when the tournament starts Wednesday — Cuba.
Ramón Saúl Sánchez was 12 years old when his family in Cuba sent him to the United States, and he was 15 when he joined a Miami-based paramilitary organization formed by Cuban exiles to fight Communism, and he went on to engage in decades of non-violent resistance.
Tuesday marks two years since historic protests paralyzed the island of Cuba as hundreds took to the streets calling for change.
Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba and the United States.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met with Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana, the last stop of a Latin American trip that also took him to Iran's two other allies in the region — Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Authorities took 13 Cuban migrants into custody after the group landed near Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys Monday evening, according to a U.S. Border Patrol official.
A man ordered a colada at the San Lazaro Cafeteria in Hialeah. After enjoying the Cuban-style espresso, he went out for a walk. He returned shortly after with a black semi-automatic firearm, police said.
