The Latest Breaking News from Cuba

Sean Russell’s first encounter with a Cubanos sandwich left him teary-eyed and confused

American Airlines, the biggest flier from Miami International Airport, asked the U.S. Department of Transportation this week for clearance to resume flights to five destinations in Cuba, outside Havana where it already flies six daily flights from here.

One of the most trusted advisers to former Cuban President Raul Castro and head of the country’s military business division has died at age 62

General Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, one of Cuba's most powerful men, died on Friday of a heart attack, state media reported, leaving a critical hole in the political and economic leadership of the communist-run island.

Cuban cellist Ana Carla Maza sees every song as a journey. Born in Cuba to jazz musician parents, her innovative style mixes classical jazz with Latin American rhythms. Her latest album "Bahia" – named after the neighborhood in Havana where she grew up – transports listeners through Latin America and…

MIAMI — A woman from Cuba died last week after suffering an injury on a migrant boat the U.S. Coast Guard found at sea off the Florida Keys.

Havana Meets Kingston features some of Cuba and Jamaica’s most influential musicians

The zookeepers at Cuba's National Zoo are especially proud of Ale, a pudgy, gray-brown baby white rhinoceros born earlier this month on the outskirts of capital Havana. For starters, he's cute.

Two members of a loose-knit group of dissident artists have been sentenced to prison in Cuba

A Cuban court sentenced a leading artist-dissident to nine years in jail on Friday and another to five years in a high profile case that human rights groups branded a "farce" but that Cuban state media said was a fair trial over "common crimes."

MIAMI — The number of Cubans fleeing poverty and oppression on the island surpassed the Mariel exodus of 1980, as U.S. government data reveals that more than 140,000 Cubans have been detained at U.S. borders between October last year and May.