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Miami (AFP) - A former US ambassador who pleaded guilty to spying for Cuba for over four decades was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 15 years in prison. Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in December for what US officials called "one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the United States government by a foreign agent." Rocha pleaded not guilty in February to charges of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government but later accepted a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Judge Beth Bloom, after a three-and-a-half hour hearing in Miami on Friday, told R...
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Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday criticized Cuba for barring a prominent activist, Martha Beatriz Roque, from visiting the White House to receive an award. The State Department named Roque, who has been outspoken in her criticism of the communist-run island's repression of dissent, one of its "International Women of Courage" in an annual award presentation. Presenting the awards at the White House, Blinken called Roque an "unyielding defender of human rights in Cuba." "Cuban authorities have subjected Martha to a long campaign of detention and abuse, including ...
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Havana (AFP) - Cuban cardiologist Alexey Lopez, 59, is sleeping a bit better since his salary got a bump -- part of government efforts to stop its renowned health care system from bleeding doctors amid the island's worst economic crisis in decades. But Lopez fears the wage boost will not be enough to lure back his colleagues who are among some 40,000 Cuban medical staff that quit in 2022 and 2023, according to official figures. He told AFP "we were losing sleep" making ends meet before incentive bonuses were introduced last month for night and weekend shifts, seniority, and work in specialize...
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Miami (AFP) - A former US ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested and charged with spying for Cuba over a 40-year span, the Justice Department announced Monday, detailing a shock betrayal by a suspect who called the United States "the enemy." US Attorney General Merrick Garland laid out the allegations against Victor Manuel Rocha, a onetime member of the White House's National Security Council now accused of using his positions within government to support Cuba's "clandestine intelligence-gathering mission" against the United States. The charges against the 73-year-old retired diplomat expose ...
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Havana (AFP) - Cuban and Haitian migrants are increasingly taking chartered flights to Nicaragua from where they seek to travel overland to the United States, prompting Washington to impose sanctions this week on the operators of the aircraft. Irma Perez, a 28-year-old Cuban, told AFP she arrived in the Nicaraguan capital Managua last month aboard a charter flight run by Mexican aviation firm Viva Aerobus. "We had a 45-minute layover in Cancun (Mexico) without disembarking, and then came to Managua," she said. Perez was speaking from Mexico, after she, her husband and one-year-old son traveled...
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Mexico City (AFP) - When a dozen Latin American presidents and foreign ministers meet on Sunday in Mexico, they'll face a huge task: finding a solution to migration flows roiling two continents as people make their way to the United States. This year alone, 1.7 million migrants arrived at the Mexican-US border. Immigration is becoming a huge political issue in both nations, which each have presidential elections next year. September alone saw 60,000 migrants arrive in Mexico from Venezuela, along with 35,000 Guatemalans and 27,000 Hondurans, according to the Mexican government. "It is very dif...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Monday condemned the latest attack on Cuba's embassy in Washington, in which a man allegedly threw two Molotov cocktails at the mission. Cuba's communist government, which is despised by many exiles in the United States, described the incident Sunday night as a "terrorist attack." No one was injured and there was no significant damage. "All attacks and threats against diplomatic facilities are unacceptable," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. "We are in contact with Cuban embassy officials and, consistent with our obligations under...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States announced the reopening of its immigration office in Cuba Thursday, saying it would aid in processing applications for family members of Cubans already in the US. The Havana office of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services will conduct interviews, collect biometric data and process cases of applicants seeking to move to the United States, according to a statement from the department of Homeland Security. "This administration is taking steps to reduce unlawful entries, deny resources to ruthless smuggling organizations, and streamline access to lawful, ...
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Havana (AFP) - Cuban on Tuesday protested against the presence of a US nuclear-powered submarine last week at the American naval base in Guantanamo Bay on the island's east coast. In a statement issued in English, the foreign ministry said it "strongly rejects the arrival of a nuclear-powered submarine in the Guantanamo Bay on July 5, 2023, that stayed until July 8 at the US military base located there." The incident was a "provocative escalation of the United States, whose political or strategic motives are not known," it added. The ministry warned of the "danger of the presence and circulati...
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Havana (AFP) - The Havana government on Thursday denied US news reports that it has reached a deal for China to set up a spying base in Cuba, just off American shores. Cuba's deputy foreign minister said the reports by The Wall Street Journal and CNN were "mendacious and unfounded." The White House called them inaccurate. The reports said Beijing and Havana have entered into a secret agreement for a Chinese electronic eavesdropping facility to be set up on the Caribbean island that could monitor communications across the southeastern United States. The region includes the US Southern and Centr...
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