The Latest Breaking News from Cuba

Biden administration officials will meet a Cuban delegation Thursday in Washington, D.C., to discuss a dramatic increase in migration from the island, a source with knowledge of the matter told the Miami Herald.

Cuban authorities say migration talks with the United States will take place this week, the first in four years since the hardening of relations between both countries and amid a sustained increase in arrivals of Cuban citizens at the southern border of the U.S. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said on Twitter…

MIAMI — Three separate groups of Cuban migrants arrived in the Florida Keys within about 24 hours, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

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. 13—OPINIÓN Y COMENTARIO

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.

“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.