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Ramon Espinosa/APThe United States has imposed sanctions on Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel, along with four other individuals, according to a filing Thursday on the U.S. Treasury Department website. Included in the sanctions are Alejandro Castro Espín, the son of former President Raúl Castro, who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. -
Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo/APResidents of Havana are dealing with a growing garbage crisis. Piles of waste have been accumulating on nearly every street corner, worsened by a U.S. energy blockade that caused power outages and a fuel crisis.
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Right-wing Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo De la Espriella was the attorney for Venezuela's alleged corruption mastermind, Colombian-born Alex Saab, when UM prof Bruce Bagley was recruited into Saab's money-laundering schemes. Did De la Espriella help facilitate the relationship? -
The U.S. government has granted a visa to Woodensky Pierre, the only member of Haiti’s national soccer team living in the Caribbean country. -
Peru is grappling with a surge in extortion and violence, especially in areas like Trujillo. Gladys Saavedra, who works in a market there, says extortionists demand $300 monthly from vendors. Last June, the market was set on fire when the women refused to pay. Crime has become a major concern as Peruvians prepare to elect a new president. -
Right-wing populist Abelardo De la Espriella surged to the front of the Colombian presidential election's first round on Sunday — capturing 90% of the South Florida expat vote with his iron fist-against-crime campaign — and is the front-runner for the June 21 runoff against left-wing rival, Senator Iván Cepeda. -
Amnesty International accuses U.S. military of illicit ‘campaign of murder’ in Caribbean and PacificAmnesty International is calling on the Congress and global leaders to halt what it describes as an "unconscionable campaign of extrajudicial killings at sea" carried out by the U.S. military. -
For the first time since he was an infant, Kyle Adler boarded a plane in February to meet his birth mother. -
The only member of Haiti's national soccer team who is based in the troubled Caribbean country is awaiting a U.S. visa to join the squad in Florida just weeks before the start of the World Cup. Woodensky Pierre is a defensive midfielder who plays for Violette AC in Haiti's capital. -
Amid a deepening economic crisis and U.S. pressure, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, strongly pushed back against Trump administration allegations that the island poses a national security threat to the United States. -
COMMENTARY Prediction markets are betting President Trump will order military action in Cuba, but not regime change — as they know his priority is to make countries ripe for deportation, not democracy. -
The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
