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December

• Pretrial Hearing Set for Former US Diplomat Accused of Spying for Cuba VOA 05 Dec 2023 -- A pretrial hearing for former U.S. diplomat Manuel Rocha is set for Wednesday.
• Former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council Official Charged with Secretly Acting as an Agent of the Cuban Government US Dept. of Justice 04 Dec 2023 -- Federal prosecutors have charged Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, Florida, a former U.S. Department of State employee who served on the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 and ultimately as U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, with committing multiple federal crimes by secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of the Republic of Cuba.
• Former US Diplomat Charged With Spying for Cuba for Decades VOA 04 Dec 2023 -- A former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Manuel Rocha, has been charged with spying for Cuba since at least 1981.
• Cuban President arrives in Iran after about two decades ISNA 04 Dec 2023 -- At the invitation of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the Cuban President arrived in Tehran leading a high-level political and economic delegation, marking 22 years since the last visit by the late President Fidel Castro.
• Iran, Cuba must form coalition to counter US, West bullying: Ayatollah Khamenei Press TV 04 Dec 2023 -- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says great political and economic capacities of Iran and Cuba should be used to form a coalition against bullying of the United States and its Western allies.
• Iran, Cuba call for global coalition to support Palestinians amid Israeli genocidal war Press TV 04 Dec 2023 -- President Ebrahim Raeisi says Iran and Cuba have a common stance on the need to form a coalition to support the oppressed Palestinian people in different continents in cooperation with the allied countries.

November

• UN votes overwhelmingly against U.S. embargo on Cuba People's Daily 03 Nov 2023 -- The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted by a large margin against the United States' economic and trade embargo against Cuba, first imposed in 1960.

October

September

• Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman KCNA 01 Oct 2023 -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued the following press statement on Sunday:
• Cuba calls for 'a new and more just global contract' UN News 19 Sep 2023 -- In the face of rising hunger and poverty, developing countries will continue their decades-long fight for a more just and equitable world, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
• Cuba Says Trafficking Ring Aimed to Recruit Cubans for Russia's War in Ukraine VOA 05 Sep 2023 -- Cuba said Monday it uncovered a human trafficking network meant to recruit its citizens to fight on behalf of Russia in Ukraine.
• Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cuba - Ministry of Foreign Affairs 04 Sep 2023 -- The Ministry of the Interior has detected and it is working to neutralize and dismantle a human trafficking network that operates from Russia in order to incorporate Cuban citizens living there and even some living in Cuba, into the military forces that participate in military operations in Ukraine.

August

July

• Call to Release All 11J Political Prisoners in Cuba US Dept. of State 11 Jul 2023 -- "Today, we mark two years since tens of thousands of Cubans across the entire island raised their voices for their fundamental freedoms."

June

• Armed Forces of Cuba delegation visited Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia Russia MoD 29 Jun 2023 -- Cuban delegation led by Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces Corps General Alvaro Lopez during an official visit to the Russian Federation visited Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.
• Analysts: China's Plans for Cuba May Go Beyond Spy Base VOA 29 Jun 2023 -- Top U.S. lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to brief Congress on the spy station China is allegedly building in Cuba, but American analysts fear that China's plans for America's backyard may go beyond intelligence gathering.
• Cuban President Expresses Solidarity to Putin Amid Wagner Mutiny Attempt Sputnik 25 Jun 2023 -- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has expressed solidarity and support to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian people amid the Saturday events, involving the Wagner Group private military company (PMC) and its head Yevgeny Prigozhin.
• Fact Check: Unpacking the US 'Cuban spy base' allegation People's Daily 20 Jun 2023 -- U.S. media outlets intensified their accusations against China on June 8, 2023, alleging that a Chinese spy facility, capable of monitoring communications in the southeastern U.S., was being established in collaboration with Cuba.
• Reports Claim China in 'Advanced' Talks to Build Training Base in Cuba Sputnik 20 Jun 2023 -- While China has zero combat troops in the Western Hemisphere, the United States has more than 350,000 deployed across the Pacific region, including more than 100 on Taiwan, an island it formally recognizes as being Chinese territory. Washington says it is safeguarding the "rules-based international order" by doing so.
• Iranian, Cuban presidents discuss bilateral ties in Havana IRNA 16 Jun 2023 -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Cuban counterpart Miguel Díaz-Canel met and conferred on bilateral ties in Havana on Thursday.
• Iran, Cuba sign 6 major cooperation deals Press TV 15 Jun 2023 -- Iran and Cuba have signed six agreements to expand economic, political and judicial cooperation between the two allied countries.
• Meeting with Prime Minister of Cuba Manuel Marrero Cruz President of Russia 14 Jun 2023
• Putin Pledges to Help Cuba Overcome 'Unlawful' Sanctions Sputnik 14 Jun 2023 -- Russia will assist the Cuban people in overcoming the "unlawful" sanctions they have been struggling with for decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
• US: China Upgraded Cuban Spy Operations in 2019 VOA 12 Jun 2023 -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that China conducted an upgrade of its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019.
• US officials and media once again stage a farce regarding alleged 'Chinese spy base in Cuba' Global Times 12 Jun 2023 -- US officials and media once again staged a farce regarding the alleged "Chinese spy base in Cuba" by spreading contradictory information, said the Chinese Foreign Ministry in response to US' groundless accusation that China uses a secrete base in Cuba to spy on the US.
• Cuba spy base revelations may jeopardize Blinken China visit Radio Free Asia 12 Jun 2023 -- China has reacted forcefully to reports of an alleged Chinese "electronic eavesdropping facility" on Cuba, claiming that the "smearing" of China jeopardizes an anticipated Beijing visit by U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken.
• Media's hype of China's spy station in Cuba a new farce Global Times 09 Jun 2023 -- China on Friday criticized the US' long-term interference in Cuba's internal affairs and urged it to stop undermining the political foundation of bilateral relations while claiming to build "guardrails" on China-US relations after the US media's hype of China's so-called deal of building a spy station in Cuba.
• China, Cuba, US reject report of Chinese plan for spy base Press TV 09 Jun 2023 -- The White House has rejected a media report which said that China was planning to build a spy base in Cuba, just 90 miles away from the continental USA.
• Pentagon: Media Reports on China Spy Station in Cuba Are 'Not Accurate' VOA 08 Jun 2023 -- The Pentagon says reports that China and Cuba have reached a secret pact allowing Beijing to build an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island that is 160 kilometers from the United States are "not accurate."

May

• Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshenko Arrives in Cuba Sputnik 18 May 2023 -- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko has arrived in Cuba for a working visit, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

April

• Lavrov Arrives in Cuba to Wrap Up Latin American Tour Sputnik 20 Apr 2023 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in Cuba on a working visit, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's visit to the Republic of Cuba Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 20 Apr 2023
• Cuba's Miguel Diaz-Canel Wins Second 5-Year Presidential Term Sputnik 19 Apr 2023 -- Cuban lawmakers have unanimously approved the reelection of incumbent President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who will lead the executive branch of the country from 2023-2028, Cuban media reported on Wednesday.

March

• DNI Statement on the Intelligence Community Assessment on AHIs Director of National Intelligence 01 Mar 2023 -- ""Today we are sharing key judgments and investigative efforts from our Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs). This assessment builds on the Intelligence Community's (IC) interim findings released last year, which described the IC's judgment that U.S. adversaries, including Russia, were not engaged in a global campaign resulting in AHIs, but indicated that we continued to investigate whether a foreign actor was involved in a subset of cases."
• US Finds No Evidence to Link Adversaries to 'Havana Syndrome' VOA 01 Mar 2023 -- In a sharp reversal, U.S. intelligence agencies now say none of the hundreds of mysterious illnesses that afflicted and in some cases incapacitated U.S. personnel around the globe can be linked to the use of a weapon by a U.S. adversary.
• 'Complicit in piracy': Cuba slams US for granting asylum to pilot of stolen plane Press TV 02 Mar 2023 -- Cuban authorities have accused the US government of being "complicit in piracy" for granting political asylum to a pilot who fled to the United States on a stolen plane last October.

February

• Letters to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Cuba and of the Emergency Authority Relating to the Regulation of the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels The White House 17 Feb 2023
• Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Cuba and of the Emergency Authority Relating to the Regulation of the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels The White House 17 Feb 2023

January