Tag: Cuba

Policymakers must confront weaponized migration to address border crisis

Bethany Blankley, The Center Square · March 17, 2024 2:14 pm

Judge denies Republican challenge to Biden policy sponsoring thousands of immigrants

Misty Severi · March 8, 2024 9:17 pm

Code Pink protesters hijack House GOP event condemning ‘Squad’ trip to Cuba

Rachel Schilke · March 8, 2024 1:39 pm

Cuban American lawmakers frustrated with progressives’ trip to Cuba: ‘Why were they there?’

Jenny Goldsberry · March 1, 2024 8:21 pm

‘Squad’ members Jayapal and Omar’s trip to Cuba sparks backlash with House Republicans

Rachel Schilke · February 28, 2024 3:00 pm

Police scuffle and detain an anti-government demonstrator during a protest in Havana, Cuba, Sunday July 11, 2021. Hundreds of demonstrators went out to the streets in several cities in Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs, amid the new coronavirus crisis.

Beltway Confidential

Black lives matter — except in Cuba?

Michael Rubin · February 2, 2024 10:44 am

Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., joined at left by Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., is surrounded by reporters after she lost her bid for House Democratic Caucus chair to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., during leadership elections at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018.

House Democrat kicked out of committee hearing she crashed for sharing ‘communist propaganda’

Eden Villalovas · January 19, 2024 8:59 am

How a Cuban spy operated inside US intelligence and how she was caught

Sean Durns · January 4, 2024 5:55 pm

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, speaks with Cuban President Miguel DÃaz-Canel, center, as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi listens in their meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, Dec. 4, 2023.

Cuba courts Iranian investors as they take on ‘US and Western bullying’

Barnini Chakraborty · December 8, 2023 5:50 pm

FILE - In this June 14, 2018, file photo, the FBI seal is seen before a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington. The FBI is grappling with a seemingly endless cycle of money laundering schemes that law enforcement officials say theyâre scrambling to slow through a combination of prosecution and public awareness. Beyond the run-of-the-mill plots, officials say, is a particularly concerning trend involving âmoney mules.â These are people who, unwittingly or not, use their own bank accounts to move money for criminals for purposes they think are legitimate or even noble.

Beltway Confidential

Cuba’s man in Foggy Bottom

John Schindler · December 5, 2023 6:00 am

Classic and antique cars drive during the yearly Old Car Rally of Havana, in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. The former US ambassador to Bolivia has been charged with espionage on behalf of Cuba.

Former US ambassador charged with spying on behalf of Cuba for decades

Associated Press · December 4, 2023 4:56 pm

(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Former US ambassador arrested in Florida, accused of serving as an agent of Cuba

Associated Press · December 4, 2023 1:17 am