Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry announced plans to open four new embassies in Latin America by the end of 2025, targeting Panama, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Uruguay. The expansion will also include over ten new consular offices across Europe. This diplomatic push will be partially funded by a reduction in Ukraine’s operations in Cuba.
Top leaders of Cuba’s communist regime, including figurehead Miguel Díaz-Canel, were hit with new U.S. visa restrictions Friday on the fourth anniversary of the July 11, 2021 anti-communist protests. The State Department sanctioned key officials for their roles in the violent repression of peaceful demonstrators, holding them accountable for grave human rights abuses.
Cuba’s figurehead leader Miguel Díaz-Canel delivered a fiery anti-American speech Sunday at the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, attacking President Donald Trump’s renewed sanctions on the island’s communist regime and celebrating Cuba’s status as a “partner” in the anti-Western coalition.
The communist regime in Cuba is reportedly preparing a ten-year prison sentence for Alexander Verdecia, a 51-year-old Christian dissident and member of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), over Facebook posts critical of the government. Martí Noticias reported Tuesday that Verdecia remains imprisoned without a trial date at Las Mangas prison in Bayamo under harsh conditions.
The communist regime in Cuba has formally warned the top U.S. diplomat in Havana, Mike Hammer, accusing him of “interfering” in the country’s internal affairs. The regime’s protest note, delivered Friday, claims Hammer is “inciting Cubans to commit serious criminal acts” by meeting with political dissidents, religious leaders, and families of political prisoners.
The Cuban communist regime has released Evangelical pastor Luis Guillermo Borjas from custody, but both he and his wife, Pastor Roxana Rojas, still face charges of “contempt” and “disobedience” in a Cuban military court on June 9. Their crime? Defending their son, Kevin Lay Laurencio Rojas, a young man facing trial for deserting the regime’s brutal, compulsory military service.
Authorities in Cochise County, Arizona, have revealed details about a significant ammunition bust involving tens of thousands of rounds. The operation, which took place in mid-January, was part of a coordinated multi-agency effort targeting illegal activities along Interstate 10.
As President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas approach the conclusion of their tenure on January 20, Mayorkas' border policies remain a significant point of contention. Reports indicate that by then, approximately 1.5 million illegal migrants will have entered the U.S. through parole programs established under Mayorkas' leadership.
