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As Cuba election day nears, some voters ask, 'why bother?'

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

Cuba says its allies have pledged help to end its economic crisis

China, Russia, Algeria and Turkey have pledged to restructure Cuba's debt, provide new trade and investment financing, and help ease an energy crisis, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel told state-run media following a rare trip abroad last week.

Reuters

Cuba municipal elections see lowest turnout in 40 years

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

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Cuba wins China debt relief, new funds

China has agreed to restructure Cuban debt and provide new trade and investment credits to the beleaguered Caribbean Island nation after a meeting in Peking between the two Communist countries’ leaders.

Reuters

Xi resumes in-person summits despite COVID-19 spike in Beijing

A maskless President Xi Jinping met Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel in Beijing, resuming his flurry of in-person summits even as a record COVID-19 surge fanned lockdown fears in the Chinese capital.

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Evoking Castro, Putin and Cuban leader pledge to deepen ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel unveiled a monument in a north Moscow square on Tuesday to Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, pledging to deepen their friendship in the face of U.S. sanctions against both countries.

Reuters

Scavenging for supplies, Cuba's tobacco farmers rebuild after Hurricane Ian

When Hurricane Ian ripped through western Cuba last week, tobacco farmer Victoriano Maqueira lost the two large barns he used for drying his crop, as well as his dogs, chickens, a pig, his television and the roof off his home.

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Cuban protests after Hurricane Ian fade but anger over shortages simmers

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

Cuba votes to legalise same-sex marriage, surrogacy

HAVANA: Cubans voted to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption as well as surrogate pregnancies in a referendum over the weekend, the communist country's electoral officials said Monday.

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Cuba votes to legalize same-sex marriage, surrogacy

Havana (AFP) - Cubans voted to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption as well as surrogate pregnancies in a referendum over the weekend, the communist country's electoral officials said Monday.

AFP

Cubans head to polls to vote on govt-sponsored code to legalize gay marriage, adoption

Cubans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote on a package of measures that would upend the island's long-held "machista" culture and legalize gay marriage even as the country wrestles with a deepening economic crisis.

Reuters

Cuban oil fire all but out, blackouts and gas lines lengthen

Cubans have been left to endure six- to 18-hour blackouts, and search for ever-scarcer gasoline in the wake of a spectacular blaze that destroyed 40% of Cuba’s main fuel depot and shuttered its only supertanker port.

Reuters

Cuba gets help from Mexico, Venezuela to fight oil fire

Cuba appeared to make progress on Sunday bringing under control a fire at its main oil storage facility that has killed one firefighter, drawing on help from Mexico and Venezuela to fight the raging flames.

Reuters

Dozens injured and 17 missing after lightning strike triggers huge fire at Cuban supertanker port

Uncontrollable blaze rages through night after oil storage tanks explode

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Cuba fire rages at fuel storage port; Mexico, Venezuela sending help

A massive oil-fed fire burned for a second day on Saturday near Cuba's supertanker port in Matanzas, as Mexico and Venezuela sent teams to help fight the inferno and Cuba accepted a U.S. offer of unspecified "technical advice".

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Cuba slams US ‘involvement’ on anniversary of anti-gov’t protests

Havana accuses Washington of helping to ‘subvert law and order’ after Blinken hails determination of Cuban protesters.

Reuters

Cuban general Lopez-Calleja dead of heart attack, state media says

General Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, one of Cuba's most powerful men, died on Friday of a heart attack, state media reported, leaving a critical hole in the political and economic leadership of the communist-run island.

Reuters

Mexico president's summit snub shows limits of U.S. reach in Latin America

The Mexican president's refusal to attend a U.S.-hosted summit because of disputes over the guest list highlights how Latin America's leftists are pursuing an increasingly independent foreign policy from Washington.

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Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua condemn exclusion from U.S. summit

A bloc of leftist countries meeting in Havana on Friday condemned the exclusion of certain nations from next month's Summit of the Americas, after the United States said that it only wanted the leaders of governments that respect democracy to attend.

Reuters

Cuban president says he won't go to U.S. summit even if invited

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel said he would not attend the upcoming Summit of the Americas hosted by the United States, which has said that only democratic governments would be invited.

Daily Mirror

Gas leak blamed for explosion at hotel in Cuban capital Havana that killed at least 22

State television said the blast at The Hotel Saratoga in Havana was 'not a terrorist attack', adding that the hotel was closed and only workers were inside at the time

Bangkok Post

Death toll reaches 25 in Havana hotel blast

HAVANA: The death toll after an explosion ripped through a luxury hotel in central Havana climbed to 25 people including a Spanish tourist, state television reported on Saturday, one day after the powerful blast due to a suspected gas leak.

AFP

Death toll climbs to 18 in Havana hotel blast, gas leak suspected

Havana (AFP) - The death toll from a powerful explosion at a five-star hotel in central Havana climbed to 18 Friday with more than 50 people injured after a suspected gas leak, according to new official tallies.

AFP

Nine dead in Havana hotel blast, gas leak suspected

Havana (AFP) - Nine people were killed and 40 hurt when a powerful explosion, likely caused by a gas leak, ripped through a five-star hotel in central Havana Friday, the Cuban government said.

Reuters

Cubans take to streets on Worker's Day for first time in three years

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