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Trump Piles Fresh Sanctions on Cuba's Flailing Tourism Industry (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/trump-piles-fresh-sanctions-on-cuba-s-flailing-tourism-industry
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p110#a250714p110

Vulnerability of electrical systems to total blackouts is not just a result of high penetration of renewables. The opposite applies in La Palma, Canarias, as in Cuba, when old thermal power plants fail. In La Palma, renewables have the lowest share (11%) of all Spain's islands.
Por qué los apagones se ceban con La Palma: un sistema aislado y una central térmica de hace medio siglo

Por qué los apagones se ceban con La Palma: un sistema aislado y una central térmica de hace medio siglo
La isla cuenta con una red eléctrica que depende en gran parte de una sola estación con varios grupos muy antiguos. Cuando esta sufre un problema, las posibilidades de un corte total del suministro se multiplican

Tom Homan, the US border czar, has said
he does not know what happened to the eight men deported to South Sudan
after the Trump administration resumed sending migrants to countries that are not their place of origin, known as third countries.
Men from Mexico, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar were removed from the US and flown to the war-torn country

⛓️‍💥 The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-20/the-chain-of-favors-that-keeps-cubans-afloat-in-the-face-of-state-ab…

The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
Tired of waiting for a government that has turned its back on them, millions of people suffering from hunger, homelessness and a lack of medicine in Cuba are relying on solidarity to survive

➡️ Trump lifted sanctions on Syria. Now do Cuba. | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-sanctions-cuba/

June 10: 1898:
Spain Declares War Against the United States.
The war lasted for 10 weeks.
After the war Spain and the USA signed the Treaty of Paris
under which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippines,
& Guam to the US
for $20 million
and Cuba became a protectorate of the USA.

Dr Pop Culture USA (@drpopcultureusa.bsky.social)
June 10: 1898: Spain Declares War Against the United States. The war lasted for 10 weeks. After the war Spain and the USA signed the Treaty of Paris under which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippines, & Guam to the US for $20 million & Cuba became a protectorate of the USA.

pontiff reveals. -- in collaboration with American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami (Henry Louis Gates Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/11/magazine/pope-leo-xiv-ancestry-family-tree.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p52#a250612p52

"Here’s a tip, Tom Homan: Cuban born convicted narco-cartel drug dealer named Orlando Cicilia still in America. He’s not hard to find. He’s Marco Rubio’s brother-in law."
'Not hard to find!' Trump official's drug-dealing kin floated for deportation - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/marco-rubio-2673068099/

The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally
to the U.S. military base in Guantšnamo Bay, Cuba,
starting as early as this week,
said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries.
They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Nethe…

Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
The administration aims to send thousands of foreigners to Guantánamo, including people from Britain and France, with no plans to notify their home governments.

'Meet to discuss': Elon Musk gets unlikely allies in effort to build new party - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/meet-cuban-musk-new-party/