The Latest Breaking News from Cuba

American and Cuban officials are due to meet in Washington on Thursday to discuss migration concerns, people familiar with the matter said, in the highest-level formal U.S. talks with Havana since President Joe Biden took office last year.

How did something so at odds with reality persist for so long? And why is it finally crumbling?

Apr. 14—El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos dijo que había recibido pruebas creíbles de homicidios ilegítimos, desapariciones forzadas y torturas de activistas políticos en una dura evaluación del historial del gobierno cubano publicada esta semana como parte del informe anual de la agencia sobre prácticas de derechos humanos.

Apr. 13—OPINIÓN Y COMENTARIO

“Dictator of my heart.”

The U.S. State Department said it has received credible evidence of unlawful killings, forced disappearances and torture of political activists in a scorching assessment of the Cuban government’s record, released this week as part of the agency’s annual report on human rights practices.

Cuba not accepting deportations of its nationals, ICE says

MIAMI — The Cuban government has not been accepting deportations of Cuban nationals from the U.S. for more than six months, at a time when tens of thousands are leaving the island to reach the U.S. in the largest exodus since the 1980s Mariel boatlift.

MIAMI — A U.S. Coast Guard cutter returned 89 people to Haiti on Tuesday who were stopped at sea days earlier aboard an overloaded sailboat off the southeastern coast of Cuba.

Every year in Cuba, millions of crabs emerge from the forest at the beginning of the spring rains and head for the waters of the Bay of Pigs, crossing streets and highways on a perilous journey to mate and reproduce there

At 8 a.m. in Key West, a rooster is crowing somewhere, shouting at the top of its lungs. At 5 Brothers, the hole-in-the-wall corner grocery store not far from the Key West Cemetery, a man with thick white hair and a big belly brews a buchi espresso while chatting with…