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The number of political prisoners in Cuba amounts to 1,148, denounces Prisoners Defenders

US Coast Guard rescues 37 Cuban migrants stranded on Bahamas islands

SLP, Mexico.- The United States Coast Guard (USCG) rescued 37 Cuban migrants who were stranded on Cay Sal Bank and Anguilla Cay, islands of the Bahamas, according to a official note published

January 13, 2025

Cuba

Texas oil price continues to rise

The price of Texas Intermediate Oil (WTI) closed this Monday with a rise of 2.94%, to $78.82 a barrel, driven by the latest United States sanctions on Russian crude oil, as well

January 13, 2025

Dominican Republic

Reporter and activist Niober García Fournier detained in Guantánamo

MIAMI, United States. – Independent journalist Niober García Fournier, collaborator of CubaNetwas arrested around 11:00 a.m. this Monday in the city of Guantanamoas reported by his wife in an audio sent to

January 13, 2025

Cuba

¡Otro funcionario con WhatsApp hackeado! Chú Vásquez hace la denuncia

Another official with WhatsApp hacked! Chú Vásquez makes the complaint

He consul general of the Dominican Republic in New York, Jesús «Chu» Vasquez Martínez reported this Friday that his WhatsApp has been hacked. The information was released through his X account (former

January 13, 2025

Dominican Republic

They denounce the death of a 73-year-old Cuban prisoner after beating by a repressor

SLP, Mexico.- The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights in Cuba (OCDH) denounced in a statement issued this Monday, January 13, that a 73-year-old Cuban prisoner died this weekend after suffering a beating

January 13, 2025

Cuba

ODAC otorga 10 acreditaciones durante 2024

ODAC grants 10 accreditations during 2024

The Dominican Accreditation Organization (ODAC) highlighted the progress made in 2024 that strengthens confidence in the country’s products and services. During the year, ten accreditations were granted to laboratories and inspection organizations,

January 13, 2025

Dominican Republic

“Tupamaros” cigars are back

HAVANA, Cuba. – In the country that was the largest producer and exporter of the best tobacco in the world, non-smokable figs made from discarded cigarette butts, tobacco casings, rice husks, dried

January 13, 2025

Cuba

Muere un privado de libertad en cárcel de La Romana durante riña

A prisoner dies in La Romana prison during a fight

A deprived of freedom at the Cucama Correction and Rehabilitation Center, in The Romandied early Sunday morning as a result of a fight with another inmate. By confirming the death of Algenis

January 13, 2025

Dominican Republic

Oscar Elías Biscet, Mike Hammer y Elsa Morejón

US Chargé d’Affaires in Havana visits the opposition Oscar Elías Biscet

MIAMI, United States. — The Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Havana, Mike Hammer, met with Cuban opponent Oscar Elías Biscet at his residence in Lawton, in Diez de Octubre,

January 13, 2025

Cuba

Aplazan por segunda vez audiencia de Onguito Wa por intento de homicidio

“I had to hit him in the head”: “Onguito Wa after dictating 3 months of coercion for attempted homicide

SANTO DOMINGO.-A court issued three months of preventive detention to the urban music exponent Elvin Manuel Santos Alcántara, better known as “Onguito Wa” for attempted murder. Judge Karen Minyetti, of the Permanent

January 13, 2025

Dominican Republic

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