Cuba on Edge
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Cuba’s top court says a former economy minister was sentenced to life in prison for espionage, in the highest-profile case against an ex-official in recent years on the island
Most of the deaths were attributed to chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that causes joint aches, fever and fatigue.
President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.
Protests are intensifying across Cuba as residents endure blackouts lasting up to 20 hours, with the island’s power grid suffering repeated partial and total collapses. Crowds have gathered in the streets throughout the week,
Cuba on Monday confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the population, according to official reports.
A blackout has hit the western half of Cuba, including Havana, leaving millions of people without power on an island struggling with chronic outages blamed on a crumbling electric grid
Amid an economic crisis of devastating proportions, the Cuban government is making official a "partial" dollarization of the country's economy, allowing the private sector and other entities to once again open dollar bank accounts and use the U.
Cuba denied it had reached out to the United States about what the region would look like without President Nicolas Maduro leading Venezuela, calling the media report "absurd and false."
Cuba will begin allowing transactions in dollars and other foreign currencies as it tries to stabilize an economy that’s been crushed by US sanctions, sweeping power outages and decades of mismanagement.
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