The US government charged a former diplomat who served on the national security council in the 1990s with secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government for more than 40 years. Victor Manuel Rocha was arrested on Friday, following a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation. The US ambassador to Bolivia from […]
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A former U.S. ambassador was arrested and accused of secretly working for the Cuban government, newly unsealed court documents revealed on Monday. Victor Manuel Rocha, the 73-year-old one-time U.S. envoy to Bolivia, was expected to make his first appearance before a federal judge on Monday following his apprehension in Miami […]
David Dee Delgado/Getty Images Cuba Gooding Jr. is facing two new lawsuits related to separate groping incidents that date back to 2018 and 2019. The suits were filed Wednesday, November 22, under New York state’s Adult Survivors Act, which was enacted on Thanksgiving Day in 2022 and provided plaintiffs a […]
Cuba was reelected Tuesday to the United Nations Human Rights Council despite criticism from several advocacy groups and activists about the island government’s imprisonment of over a thousand peaceful protesters and dissenters. Notably, Russia, which was kicked out of the council last year after its invasion of Ukraine, could not […]
[1/2]A tanker leaves Havana’s bay, Cuba, September 9, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights HAVANA, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Power blackouts in Cuba are expected to increase significantly due to a lack of fuel, officials warned in a nationwide TV broadcast, worsening the country’s plight as it deals with […]
It seems like Russia is running low on everything these days, and can’t make enough war material to continue its fight against Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to get drones from Iran, nonlethal supplies from China, and he even needs to buy ammunition from North Korea (of all places). […]
Cuba is said to have uncovered a human trafficking ring operating from Russia with the aim to recruit men to fight as mercenaries against Ukraine. The country’s foreign ministry said in a statement this operation had the goal of attracting both Cubans living in Russia and even some based in […]
Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring aimed at recruiting Cubans to fight as mercenaries for Russia in its war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry has said, as Moscow seeks to increase the size of its forces. In a statement, the Cuban foreign ministry said the authorities were working to […]