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By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington 2 hours ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Victor Rocha abruptly reversed his plea in February after initially pleading not guilty to the charges. An ex-career diplomat who once served as US ambassador to Bolivia has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for working as an […]
A former United States ambassador accused of working for decades as a secret agent for Cuba in one of the biggest national security breaches in years pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Manuel Rocha, 73, pleaded guilty to two charges — conspiring to defraud the United States as a […]
Years before she became a professor at Morgan State University, Ellen Irene Diggs was employed as W.E.B. DuBois’s research assistant. In 1942, Diggs traveled with DuBois to Cuba to work with him to document Black people’s lives in the Americas. While there, Diggs found herself so impressed with how Afro Cubans had preserved African culture […]
Bob Baldock (right) with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains of Cuba in 1958. Courtesy of Baldock’s family Bob Baldock, a longtime Berkeley bookman, KPFA events producer, poster artist and painter — and a combatant in the Cuban Revolution — died Oct. 22, 2022, at home in Berkeley at age 85. He was born […]
Ricardo E. Gonzalez Zayas, center, the author of “Black Pedro Pan,” and members of his family are pictured during a 2017 visit to Cuba. As a youngster, the author was one of over 14,000 Cuban children who were part of “Operation Pedro Pan” — a secret, mass exodus to the U.S. via air between 1960-1962 […]
Reynaldo Cruz Diaz was in his element. One recent weekend, the Cuban journalist was reporting on a vintage baseball game at Muzzy Field in Bristol. Players wore historic uniforms, used authentic equipment and followed the rules of the late 19th century. “I’m pretty sure that when I post the pictures and all that, people in […]
Monday marks one year since the historic anti-government protests in Cuba. The Biden administration announced sanctions on Cuba in the run-up to the anniversary. 28 Cuban officials, including some the White House accuse of repressing last year’s protests, now face visa restrictions. Officials did not identify them.
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, July 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department announced visa restrictions on Saturday against 28 Cuban officials that it said were implicated in a crackdown on largely peaceful protests in Cuba nearly one year ago. In a statement, the department said the restrictions would apply to high-ranking members of the Cuban Communist Party and […]
How can the U.S. government lower the high price of prescription drugs? It may need to look to tech entrepreneur Mark Cuban for answers. Medicare could have saved nearly $4 billion in 2020 by purchasing generic drugs at the same prices offered by Cost Plus Drug Company, Cuban’s online pharmacy that launched this year, according […]
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – The terrain in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, between the U.S. and Mexico, is unforgiving. The rocky desert can be infested with rattlesnakes, and is dotted with skin-ripping cactus. Still, the number of people is attempting to cross and illegally enter the U.S. keeps increasing. “We are in a . […]