News of havana

US sanctions Cuba for repressing protests, Biden warns more to come

23-07-2021 02:58 US President Joe Biden warns sanctions on Cuba's defence minister and a special forces unit are "just the beginning" of punitive measures against Havana.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Cuba protests fanned by worst economic crisis since fall of USSR

16-07-2021 03:00 Cuba's deepest economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a spike in Covid-19 infections, power blackouts and increased use of social media all helped fan discontent with the 62-year-old communist regime.

DIPLOMACY

Fernández criticises 'inhumane' trade embargo against Cuba

13-07-2021 16:37 President Alberto Fernández delivers his first comments on protests in Cuba. “I don't know what is happening, but let’s end the blockade,” he says.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

As Castro reign ends, Cuba is mired in a debt debacle once again

27-04-2021 12:39 With hardly enough cash to pay for food imports now as Raúl Castro gives up his last vestiges of power – bringing an end to six decades of Castro family rule – Cuba can’t make good on the debt repayment deals that had been hailed as a sign of its return to the international stage just a few years earlier.

April congress

New era beckons for Cuba, without a Castro in power

17-03-2021 12:46 Cuba will emerge from the April congress of its all-powerful Communist Party without a Castro at the helm for the first time in over 60 years.

US ELECTION 2020

Many Cubans hope US election will lead to renewed ties

01-11-2020 07:27 Few countries in Latin America have seen as dramatic a change in US relations during the Trump administration – or have as much at stake in who wins the election.

Coronavirus Quarantine

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner returns to Argentina with daughter Florencia

20-03-2020 14:19 Vice-president, who flew to Cuba to visit her daughter as the coronavirus outbreak hit, says the two of them will enter into isolation upon return to Buenos Aires.

Coronavirus pandemic

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner heads to Cuba, despite coronavirus crisis

17-03-2020 09:55 67-year-old vice-president leaves Argentina to visit daughter in Havana – ignoring Alberto Fernández's call for all those aged over 65 to remain in self-isolation at home.

Kirchners in Cuba

CFK shares first photo with daughter Florencia in Havana

11-02-2020 12:20 Vice-president shares first image in months of her filmmaker daughter, who has been in Cuba for nearly one year receiving medical treatment.

CFK ON DEBT

From Havana, CFK demands ‘substantial haircut’ of Argentina's IMF debt

10-02-2020 17:01 With Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel watching on, vice-president describes US$57-billion loan with IMF as "illegal" and demands institution take a haircut on repayments.