“The embargo is fundamentally un-American. [Its] limitations stand in direct opposition to the values, principles and liberties that lie at the heart of what our nation is meant to represent.” - Miami-born Cuban-American marine scientist Fernando Bretos bellyofthebeastcuba.com/embargo-on-cub…

While Latin America and the Caribbean as a region is projected to grow a modest 2.2% in 2025, #Cuba and Haiti are the only two countries whose economies are expected to contract, by 1.5% and 2.3% respectively, according to a recent CEPAL report. oncubanews.com/en/cuba/cuba-a…

In #Cuba’s eastern provinces, the lack of rainfall and the consequentially low reservoir levels are currently affecting some 860,000 people, most critically in Santiago de Cuba, Holguín and Ciego de Ávila. chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/seq…

“The [Cuban peso’s] weakening this year has coincided with gov’t moves to open well-stocked retail outlets that accept only foreign currency and credit cards, or a state-issued dollar card, and their increased use in tourism, wholesale trade, and customs.” reuters.com/world/americas…

Impt new report from Chatham House. In no surprise to anyone following literature on sanctions effectiveness, US Cuba sanctions program meets none of the metrics for success recommended here. chathamhouse.org/2025/07/unders…

NEW: In a first, the Trump administration has revoked the U.S. visas of African officials over their contracting of Cuban doctors to fill their country’s health personnel shortages. The Department of State alleges this helps enrich Cuba’s “regime slave masters.” state.gov/releases/offic…

The Department of State has also revoked visas for Brazilian and former PAHO/WHO health officials involved in the Mais Medicos program created by Dilma Rousseff, which unravelled in 2018 under Jair M. Bolsonaro, leaving 60 million+ Brazilians without access to healthcare. reuters.com/world/americas…

El salvadoreño, #OttoReneRodríguezLlerena, condenado por colocar #bomba en hotel en #Cuba en 1997 queda en libertad. Es el segundo en menos de un año. apnews.com/article/cuba-a…

“Grenada’s foreign minister is pushing back on the Department of State’s assertions that the eastern Caribbean nation, which has had a long-standing relationship with #Cuba, is exploiting Cuban doctors and other medical professionals in order to enrich Cuba’s govt.”amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…

“A new crowdfunding campaign for #Cuba led by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Red Cross Society has raised more than $13 million in the first week, far more than organizers had expected for the entire 2-month effort…attracting 1.7 million donations.”nytimes.com/2025/08/19/wor…

20-hour blackouts, garbage-lined streets: this is life under Cuba’s ‘war economy’ - Gonzalo Zegarra C. CNN amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/22…

Roy Perrin, a New Orleans native and Department of State career FSO with experience in Venezuela, Costa Rica and China, and most recently as Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa, has just been named as the #2 diplomat at Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Cuba under Mike Hammer. elnuevoherald.com/noticias/acces…

Continuing her crusade against Cuba’s independent private sector, Rep. María Elvira Salazar is now asking Department of State + Treasury Department to investigate FL-based companies that are creating jobs & generating wealth in her district while providing food, medicine and transportation to Cubans in 🇨🇺

The Trump admin wants SCOTUS to hear a lawsuit against FL-based companies b/c it seeks to "deprive the Cuban government of funds that undermine the U.S.’s longstanding embargo of Cuba" and "increase economic pressure to achieve democratic reforms in Cuba.” cubatrade.org/blog/2025/8/27…

"For Cubans in South Florida, [Trump's immigration policies are] arousing not only fear but also indignation, particularly as local leaders who had long defended Cuban migrants now stand idly by for fear of drawing Trumpian ire." The Economist Joe Garcia economist.com/the-americas/2…

Over 150 people were deported from the United States to Cuba on August 28. The eighth deportation flight this year. Cuba has honored its bilateral agreement with the U.S. despite the Trump administration's hostile policy toward the island.

"Petróleos Mexicanos sent an all-time high of 39 shipments of crude and refined products to Havana at a value of over $850 million from May 29 to June 27. This value is similar to that of the total amount of oil shipped from Mexico to Cuba over the previous two years." oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-…

"Fernandez said his office will begin sending letters to violators in the coming weeks and work with [local] + state authorities to strengthen enforcement, warning that businesses refusing to comply risk closure. 'We know who they are and where they are.'" cbsnews.com/miami/news/mia…

They left Cuba searching for the American Dream. ICE sent them home in shackles. cnn.com/2025/09/02/ame…

Fun fact: the US agency that has the best relations with the Cuban government is the Coast Guard, because they tip us off over drug smugglers passing by the island en route to Florida. Maritime drug enforcement is one area that tends to bring antagonistic governments together.