At least two former Guantánamo Bay detainees from the United Kingdom have reportedly re-engaged in terrorist activities. One carried out a suicide attack on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq last week, and the other has reportedly joined a group affiliated with al-Qaeda in Syria.
In Teen Vogue, Breitbart News National Security Editor Frances Martel offers her take on the first month of the Trump administration.
In what many observers are deeming an embarrassing rebuke of human rights activism on the island, the Communist Party of Cuba refused to allow Organization of American States (OAS) head Luis Almagro and former Mexican president Felipe Calderón enter the country.
The Pentagon is reportedly unable to confirm whether an Islamic State British jihadist spent time at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba before blowing himself up in a vehicle full of explosives at an Iraqi army base near Mosul, Iraq.
The Cuban anti-communist artist Danilo Maldonado, known more commonly by his artistic name “El Sexto,” delivered an address Tuesday to the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy demanding global action against the Castro regime. Maldonado also practiced his art before the assembled crowd.
President Barack Obama’s concessions to Cuba opened the way for U.S. airlines to do business with the communist dictatorship. After announcing frequent flights to the island over a year ago, however, many major airlines have found the demand they expected from U.S. tourists simply is not there.
Danilo Maldonado Machado, a Cuban artist known as “El Sexto” — who has served four prison sentences for anti-communist artwork — testified before the U.S. Senate Thursday, urging the American people and their lawmakers to pressure the communist regime into respecting human rights.
The Communist Party of Cuba has long promoted itself as a champion of Marxist puritanism, condemning social deviants to concentration camps and heavily censoring music and film. Naturally, the government denies the pervasiveness of sexual tourism on the island.
President Donald Trump’s administration is considering ordering the Pentagon to continue using the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for the detention of newly captured enemy combatants linked to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Is
The communist government of Cuba arrested nearly 500 people for political reasons in January, most members of peaceful dissident movements attempting to practice their religion or silently expressing dissent with the Castro regime.
In a report this week, CNN en Español catches up with a Venezuelan embassy whistleblower who revealed a long-running scheme to sell official Venezuelan identification documents to Middle Eastern citizens, including many suspected of ties to Hezbollah.
The human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the immediate liberation of prisoner of conscience Eduardo Cardet Concepción, a member of an anti-Communist Christian group arrested in Cuba shortly after the death of dictator Fidel Castro.
Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart attacked the “double standard and hypocrisy” of opponents of President Donald Trump’s executive order on migrants from terror-prone countries, noting that many did not oppose a similar move by President Barack Obama that stranded thousands of Cubans throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Mainstream media networks devoted 57 times more coverage to President Donald Trump’s temporary “ban” on travel from seven terror-prone countries than they did to President Barack Obama’s permanent ban on Cuban refugees to the U.S.
As the radical left organizes obstructions of airport terminals to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order enacting new security measures for travelers visiting from turbulent countries, few appear equally outraged that his predecessor, Barack Obama, issued a similar directive specifically targeting Cubans.
Cuban dictator Raúl Castro called for “respectful” dialogue with the new Trump administration in Washington, which would require the White House to abandon any attempts at getting the Castro regime to “enact concessions” on human rights.
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering signing an executive order that would direct the Pentagon to continue using the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba “for the detention and trial of newly captured” detainees linked to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Only 41 captives remain in the U.S. military detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, including five who have been deemed eligible for release by a multi-agency board established by the administration of former President Barack Obama who vowed to shut down the prison.
Cuba has released Danilo Maldonado Machado, an artist also known as “El Sexto,” after nearly two months in prison for having celebrated the death of Fidel Castro in public.
On Saturday, a coalition of actresses, pop stars, and Michael Moore congregated in cities throughout the country to protest the peaceful transfer of power between Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, a centuries-old American tradition.
The Obama administration has linked U.S. law enforcement with their Cuban counterparts in a partnership “on counternarcotics, counterterrorism, legal cooperation, and money laundering,” according to a Statement from the U.S. embassy in Havana.
With two days left as America’s chief executive, President Barack Obama has approved a series of new agreements with the Cuban Communist Party designed to allow Cuba a greater role in “aeronautical search and rescue.”
It remains uncertain where the 10 unidentified prisoners, who have been allegedly pardoned and “temporarily” transferred to Oman from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, will go afterwards.
Socialist International has issued a statement condemning the socialist government of Venezuela for keeping political prisoners, collapsing the nation’s economy, and generally “reflect[ing] the characteristics of a failed state.”
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — The dream of arriving to the U.S. under the Wet Foot-Dry Foot policy has turned into a nightmare after hundreds of Cubans have been left stranded at the Texas-Mexico border. The islanders have a 20-day permit from the Mexican government to travel north that leaves them subject to deportation thereafter.
Activists helping Cuban-American families in Miami say that Cuban citizens landing in the United States with legal tourist visas are being detained and deported following President Barack Obama’s repeal of the “wet foot/dry foot” immigration policy this month.
Outgoing President Barack Obama has transferred 10 prisoners from the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to Oman on his way out of the White House.
The sudden closure of the U.S. “wet foot, dry foot” policy that allowed Cuban migrants to remain in the United States if they reached the mainland has stranded many Cubans in South America and in Central America.
Some Cubans believe resentment towards Cuban-Americans who overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump fueled President Barack Obama’s decision to terminate the “Wet Foot, Dry Foot” refugee policy.
The Cuban government has praised President Barack Obama for invalidating the immigration policy known as “Wet Foot/Dry Foot,” which allowed Cuban refugees to stay legally in the U.S. upon arrival, but demanded he also work to repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966, which the communists refer to as the “Law of Murder.”
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) minced no words when expressing his dismay over the outgoing President’s decision to end automatic residency for Cuban refugees to reporters.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The controversial move by the Obama Administration that cancelled the longstanding “Wet Foot-Dry Foot” policy for Cubans went largely unnoticed in Mexico.
President Barack Obama’s decision to shut down the 51-year-old pathway for Cuban immigration into the United States is being praised by his usual enemies, and slammed by his usual friends.
Socialist Venezuela has announced new measures to activate its military, including a schedule of events intended to incorporate civilians into marches and other “revolutionary” activity in case the nation needs to wage a “prolonged war of the people.”
Outgoing President Barack Obama has used his administrative power to help Cuba’s fascist government block emigration from the poverty stricken island.
(Associated Press) The Obama administration is ending the “wet foot, dry foot” policy that granted residency to Cubans who arrived in the United States without visas.
A former al-Qaeda-linked prisoner at the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who was released in 2007, has been charged with assaulting his partner in Australia.
Cuban soldiers threatened to kill President Barack Obama, vowing “a hat made of lead” for the American head of state, in a chant during a march to celebrate the 58th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
Cuban police stormed into the home of Leticia Ramos Herrería, a member of the Ladies in White dissident group, and confiscated toys the group had collected to distribute in celebration of the Christian feast day of Epiphany.
President Barack Obama will likely release more prisoners from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, before incoming commander-in-chief Donald Trump takes over on January 20, the White House press secretary reiterated on Thursday.
