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The House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement released a report on Wednesday revealing rampant fraud and widespread abuse of the Biden-Harris administration’s CHNV “Humanitarian Parole” program.

Protests against the communist Castro regime in Cuba continued Monday amidst near-endless power blackouts worsened by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit Cuba’s southeastern coast on Sunday.

Hundreds of people in Miami took to the iconic Calle Ocho, the heart of Little Havana, to celebrate President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday night, waving American and Cuban flags and dancing in the streets.

Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, stated on Sunday that the Castro regime will continue being a “thorn in the side” of the United States regardless of the outcome in Tuesday’s election.

The figurehead president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, warned on Sunday that the communist Castro regime will “not tolerate” protests after the complete collapse of the nation’s ailing power grid over the weekend.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) warned in a briefing on Monday that that the communist regime of Cuba is looking to actively interfere in America’s 2024 election, not only influencing votes for president but seeking to aid pro-communist candidates in local and congressional races.

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun said at a congressional event on Tuesday that he believed it “highly likely” communist North Korea sent soldiers to fight in the Russian invasion of Ukraine – and similarly probable it has suffered numerous “casualties.”

The alliance linking Iran and its proxy, the Shiite jihadist group Hezbollah, to the authoritarian regimes of Cuba and Venezuela continues to pose a threat to the United States in the region, a year after an attack by another Iranian terror proxy sparked an ongoing war in the Middle East.

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba and Venezuela expressed support for Iran after its missile attack on Israel this week.

Mexican Army soldiers mistook a fleeing convoy of vehicles that was moving a large group of Middle Eastern migrants for cartel gunmen in the state of Chiapas. The subsequent chase and shooting killed at least four migrants, while some accounts point to six dying.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) claimed at Tuesday evening’s vice presidential debate that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s mobile app for migrants at the southern border has “been on the books since 1990.”

U.S. immigration lawyer Eduardo Soto denounced that her client Vivian Limonta Reyes, a Cuban mother of a two-year-old boy with autism, was deported back to Cuba by U.S. authorities and separated from her son, Cubanet reported on Thursday.

Donald Trump is promising to quickly send home the million-plus “parole” migrants who have been smuggled into the United States by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. 

Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro declared at the U.N. that neither Israel nor the United States are “the children of God.”

The repressive communist government of Cuba held an event this weekend in New York under the guise of strengthening ties to the global Cuban diaspora – which exists almost entirely as a result of the regime’s human rights atrocities – in which it encouraged Cubans abroad to “participate in the economic development of the country.”

Cuba sentenced dissident José Manuel Barreiro Rouco to two and a half years in prison for sharing anti-regime memes on WhatsApp.

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba and Venezuela on Tuesday issued statements condemning an apparent attack on Hezbollah operatives in Syria and Lebanon in which hundreds of pagers exploded spontaneously.

Luis Raúl González-Pardo Rodríguez, a Cuban pilot linked to the communist regime’s killing of four Americans in 1996, now lives in the United States thanks to the Biden-Harris administration’s “humanitarian parole” program, Martí Noticias reported on Monday.

A growing number of Cubans are forced to scavenge through garbage to find something to eat and survive, the outlet Cubanet reported.

The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) urged the European Union this week to cease its financial support of Cuba’s communist regime.

A group of U.S. representatives issued a letter on Monday demanding U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken provide information explaining to Congress how Manuel Menéndez Castellanos, a former high-ranking member of the Cuban Communist Party, was granted a U.S. immigrant visa.

Two high-ranking Cuban diplomats reportedly participated in encounters with leftist activists and union leaders in Atlanta in August.

Outgoing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expediting the hiring of 5,223 Cuban slave doctors.

The FHRC has documented more than 115 cases of members of Cuba’s communist regime moving to the United States since February 2023.

Yosandri Mulet Almarales, one of more than 1,110 political prisoners confirmed in Cuba, died Monday of injuries following a suicide attempt.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 15,645 Cubans arrived in the United States in July — an average of 504 per day.

Cubans in Havana are increasingly resorting to using Chinese electric motorbikes, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday, as the decrepit “classic” vehicles tourists fawn over become increasingly less reliable and the Communist Party fails to keep gasoline and diesel fuel stocked.

A former provincial-level Cuban Communist Party chief arrived in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, apparently through a “family reunification” program.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly planning to introduce a price control scheme for food and groceries in America should she be elected – an alarming proposal to hear as a Venezuelan, who experienced the rampant shortages and economic chaos of price controls in the flesh.

Cuba attempted to justify a lackluster Olympic performance in which it won nine medals — the same amount as Cuban exiles on other teams won.

Three war vessels from Russia’s Baltic Fleet arrived in Havana, Cuba, this weekend for a four-day “work visit” to the communist nation that will reportedly conclude on Tuesday.

Communist Cuba, a regime that has for decades used sports competitions to elevate its geopolitical profile, has faced a series of embarrassments in the first days of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics – including a high-profile defection before the Games even began and a loss in boxing to a Cuban exile.

Cuba announced on Wednesday that three vessels from Russia’s Baltic Fleet will visit the island nation starting Saturday.

Russia and Cuba held discussions for the construction of an oil refinery in Cuba following Russian lawmakers’ visit to the island.

A consortium of totalitarian countries supports Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s genocidal imperialist war against Ukraine specifically and against the Free World in general. North Korea provides the artillery and missiles; China, the electronic inputs; Iran, the fearsome Shahed drones.

Russia continues to enlist Cuban citizens to fight in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine despite the communist regime’s claims of “cracking down” on Russian recruiters, Bloomberg reported on Friday.