In addition, the OAS Inter-American Human Rights Commission last year asked the OAS ambassadors’ permanent council to discuss its report on political prisoners in Cuba. The organization’s ambassadors ...

Cuba announced earlier this year that it was releasing 553 prisoners, including political prisoners, “in the spirit of” then Pope Francis’ 2025 Holy Year. Pope Francis died in April.

Cuba's Fidel Castro, centre, meets with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, in Havana, Cuba on July 11, 2014. Castro died in 2016 but the Kremlin's efforts to keep Cuba in its corner have ...

Cuba, facing economic difficulties owing to factors such as decades of embargo by the U.S., has strengthened its relationship with Russia after Moscow’s all-out 2022 assault on Ukraine.

According to groups monitoring human rights in Cuba, about 200 of the detainees that authorities freed were political prisoners, and the rest were ordinary criminals.

Some U.S. political sectors support lifting economic sanctions altogether, disregarding core democratic principles of freeing political prisoners and holding free and fair elections.

HAVANA The Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday that Cuba's communist government has agreed to free 52 political prisoners and allow them to leave the country in what would be the island's largest ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — They are two tiny Caribbean states whose intractable problems have vexed U.S. presidents for decades. Now, Haiti and Cuba are suddenly posing a growing challenge for President Joe ...