With a Lack of Players for the Classic, Cuba Is Debating Inviting Those Who ‘Defected’

Eight months before the event, only Yoan Moncada, Andy Ibáñez, Andy Pagés and Daysbel Hernández have confirmed their participation. Members of Team Cuba at the last World Baseball Classic. / Jit 14ymedio/Swing Completo, Havana, 9 July 2025 — The...

Cuba Congratulates Sports Journalists on their Day

Sports Journalists Havana, Jul 2 (RHC) - The president of the Cuban Sports Institute (Inder), Osvaldo Vento, today congratulated all sports communicators on the International Day of Sports Journalists. Vento, through the social network X,...

Lina Luaces Crowned Miss Universe Cuba 2025: Meet Gloria Estefan's Stunning Niece

Lina Luaces, the 22-year-old model and rising star of the Estefan family dynasty, was crowned Miss Universe Cuba 2025 on Tuesday, July 8, during a glitzy ceremony in Hialeah, Florida, the beating heart of the Cuban-American community. Representing...

Trump Appears to Move off Regime Change Approach to Cuba

Ever since the MAGA movement engulfed the U.S. Republican Party, it has harbored two competing foreign-policy tendencies—a muscular internationalism and a neo-isolationist reluctance to intervene. That tension has played out on a number of issues,...

House of Lies Season 5 Takes Emotional Turn for Characters

Los Angeles, CA — Showtime‘s satirical drama House of Lies returned for its fifth season on April 10, 2016, shifting its focus to character development and emotional engagement. Based on Martin Kihn’s book, the series follows Marty Kaan, portrayed...

Cuba Congratulates China’s CCP on its 104 Anniversary

Havana, July 1 (ACN) The first secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel congratulated his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the 104th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party...

Cuba and Venezuela Close Ranks against US Aggression

Havana, July 1 (ACN) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez extended his gratefulness to the people and government of Venezuela for their rejection of the new US Presidential Memorandum strengthening the US economic blockade of the island nation....

Cuba categorically rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum tightening the economic blockade

Cuba categorically rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum tightening the economic blockade The anti-Cuban document released by the U.S. government on June 30, 2025, consists of a reissue and amendment of National Security Presidential Memorandum...

Cuba vs. Argentina today at Women's Softball Pan American Championship

HAVANA, Cuba, July 1 (ACN) Cuban women's softball team will face Argentina today in a crucial matchup for the Super Round of the 11th Pan American Championship, being held in the Colombian city of Monteria. Cubans face the rival as undefeated...

Former Ambassador Charged in Teen Sexual Assault Case

A shocking story is unfolding tonight out of the Cayo District, one that’s raising serious concerns about the sexual abuse of minors. A well-known figure, Said “Badi” Guerra, who once served as Belize’s ambassador to Cuba and previously held the...

Cuba Condemns U.S. Presidential Memorandum Tightening Economic Blockade: A Renewed Assault on Sovereignty

Cuba rejects renewed U.S. measures tightening the economic siege.Photo:EFE. July 1, 2025 Hour: 9:45 pm Cuba vehemently rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum of June 2025 that intensifies the economic blockade, denouncing it as an imperialist...

Tallavana neighborhood secures Havana Garden Club’s Yard of the Month awards

Need an escape? These 18 Caribbean recipes feel like a tropical vacation

Serious Eats / Vicky WasikI haven't been on a plane or even so much as left the San Francisco Bay Area in I don't know how long. Safe to say, I'm looooong overdue for a much-needed vacation. But until then, traveling through food is the next best...

Cuba is the epicenter of current exchanges on environment

The program, which covers seven congresses and an exhibition fair under the motto ‘More awareness for a healthy environment’, will run until July 6 and will focus on vital issues such as the confrontation to climate change, impact and resilience...

With Church as facilitator, Colombian armed group to hand over 13 tons of weapons

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 25, 2025 / 10:10 am An armed group in Colombia pledged to hand over for destruction 13.5 tons of weapons to the Colombian government after reaching an agreement facilitated by the Catholic Church. The agreement, known as...

Which foreign nationals are not eligible for dual-citizenship in Germany?

Since 2024 Germany allows foreign residents from all countries to obtain dual-citizenship, but a number of countries don't allow their own citizens to naturalise elsewhere. So who can't become German and keep their home passport? Widely celebrated...

Cuba appreciates Nicaragua and Bolivia’s denunciations of US measures

Through the social media platform X, the foreign minister expressed his gratitude to co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, as well as to the Government of National Unity and Reconciliation and its revolutionary people for their...

Cuba rejects the US Presidential Memorandum tightening the economic blockade

Photo: Ricardo López Hevia The anti-Cuban document released by the US government on June 30, 2025, is a reissue and amendment of Presidential National Security Memorandum No. 5, which the US government itself had issued on June 16, 2017, at the...

Who is Lina Luaces, the New Miss Universe Cuba 2025?

There’s a new Miss Universe Cuba. Lina Luaces, the daughter of Lili Estefan, has been crowned the new representative for the country in the upcoming Miss Universe. The 74th Miss Universe pageant is set to take place on November 21, 2025, at the...

Cuba: For children summer is a home

Under the motto “A Home for Children,” the cultural institution opens its doors to young people interested in learning about the Latin American and Caribbean history and art housed in its galleries. Every Wednesday morning, visitors of all ages...