Ad Policy Cuban military personnel carry caricatures of US President Donald Trump as they pass in front of the Jose Marti monument during the May Day parade on May 1, 2019, in Hav

Cuban Minister for Labour and Social Security resigned after claiming Cuba, a communist-run nation around 150 kilometres from Florida, has no beggars. But what happened exactly? Why have her remarks sparked such a backlash?

Cuba’s crucial and struggling tourism industry was hit with more US sanctions, as President Donald Trump’s administration ratchets up pressure on the communist-run island and its top officials.

Now, it’s aiming at Cuba’s international medical missions. Marc Frank President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared upon taking office that the Americas were the United States’ sphere of influence and they would ratchet up pressure on a symbol of resistance to that view,

President Donald Trump has signed a new memorandum imposing tighter restrictions on Cuba, taking direct aim at tourism and economic practices that benefit the Cuban government and military.

I returned to the US, from Cuba, just a few hours before Donald Trump signed a memorandum on 30 June, 2025, tightening the long-standing US economic blockade against Cuba. The memorandum includes a statutory ban on US tourism to the neighbouring island.

Not all of the record 125 American immigrants on Forbes’ ranking of the world’s wealthiest people feel the same way about their president’s crackdown on immigrants.

Washington, D.C.- U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a new memorandum reinforcing the ban on tourism to Cuba and tightening economic restrictions on the island. According to a Reuters source at the White House,