A Cuban official 13 bullet holes were found on the border guard boat and 21 others on the suspect’s vessel, “meaning that there was combat.”

The Trump administration’s decision to cut off foreign oil to the island is devastating its tourism industry, a key source of income for a government being pushed to the edge.

Canel says his government should “immediately” focus on implementing urgent transformations to the island’s economic and social model as oil reserves in the Caribbean country dwindle

“Every single one, except, I would say, Obama, had as a policy, one way or another, to bring an end to the Cuban government,” William LeoGrande, a co-author of Back Channel to Cuba, a history of negotiations between Washington and Havana, told me.

Cuba's Interior Ministry said Wednesday night that the boat was carrying 10 people armed with assault rifles, handguns and Molotov cocktails.

Cuba faces deepening divisions as fuel shortages, power cuts and food scarcity worsen amid America's oil embargo and the state's economic retreat.

Air France says it will temporarily suspend flights between Paris and Havana for several weeks, citing Cuba’s fuel shortage.

Ecuador has declared Cuba’s ambassador and his diplomatic staff persona non grata and gave them 48 hours to leave the South American country