Trump Cracks Down on Cuba and Its Medical Missions Around the World
The administration has begun to pull the U.S. visas of foreign officials in countries that pay the Cuban government for doctors and nurses.
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Caribbean leaders deny Cuban health workers are victims of ‘forced labor’
As White House takes aim at medical missions, SVG says it gave US proof that workers aren’t human-trafficking victimsThe prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) said his government has provided evidence to the US that Cuban health workers…
Trump Did What Castros Couldn’t: Take Radio Martí Off the Air
For four decades, a U.S.-financed broadcaster provoked the ire of the communist government in Cuba. President Trump dismantled it in a matter of days.
Trump revokes legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
Move takes effect on 24 April as president weighs also stripping parole status from some 240,000 Ukrainians in USDonald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United…
ACLU sues to block White House from sending 10 immigrants to Guantánamo
Latest federal lawsuit so far applies only to 10 men detained in the US and facing transfer to the naval base in CubaCivil rights attorneys sued the Trump administration Saturday to prevent it from transferring 10 undocumented immigrants detained in th…
US flies 177 deportees from Guantánamo to Honduras en route to Venezuela
Move apparently empties military facility on Cuban base of migrant detainees and comes in wake of ACLU lawsuitThe US government has flown 177 deportees from Guantánamo Bay to Honduras, from where they are set to be transferred on to Venezuela, apparent…
Trump Administration Abruptly Clears Out Migrants It Sent to Guantánamo
A transfer operation on Thursday repatriated 177 Venezuelans via a handoff in Honduras, while one migrant was brought back to U.S. soil.
The Cubans are more disciplined and more effective pound-for-pound than the KGB ever was
It’s a point which came home to James Olson, former head of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in June 1987, when a Cuban spy, Florentino Aspillaga, walked into the US Embassy in Vienna and defected. The testimony he gave to the Americans shocked US intelligence chiefs and revealed the extent and calibre of […]
The Cubans are more disciplined and more effective pound-for-pound than the KGB ever was was originally published on Global Security Review.
Hackers uncover new evidence of Cubans joining Russian Forces
A hacking group was able to intercept new data regarding the recruitment of Cubans into the Russian military. The InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community received email dumps from Ukrainian hacktivists of the Cyber Resistance team containing evid…
Jamaica Fears Brain Drain as Teachers Leave for U.S. Schools
Severe teacher shortages in the United States are prompting schools to recruit foreign teachers, sparking fears that education in Jamaica will suffer.