Congress Put the Brakes on Cuba Relief to Protect Front-Line Democrat . Two amendments aimed at alleviating the stranglehold on Cuba's economy were withdrawn because of pressure to protect a ...

The US state department has withdrawn an offer to send disaster relief experts to Cuba. Washington made the offer after Hurricane Wilma hit the island last month and, at the time, described Havana's ...

Rafael made landfall in western Cuba on Wednesday as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Rafael made landfall in Cuba Wednesday afternoon, packing maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour. The storm was moving northwest at 14 miles per hour and is forecast to then churn westward ...

Delivering disaster relief to the largest island in the Caribbean can be difficult in the face of sanctions, embargos and political tensions between the U.S. and Cuba.