An international drama occurred 45 years ago when almost 125,000 Cubans left their island nation for the United States. About 25,000 of those Cuban refugees--known as Marielitos because they ...

The Cuban refugee crisis started long before Georgia-born President Jimmy Carter would take his seat in the Oval Office. However, in 1980, ...

On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Cuba's Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, shared a message on X (formerly Twitter) ...

OPINION This is how the world can solve its refugee crisis World Refugee Day makes us thankful to live in a country where our people do not need to flee for a better life ...

During a Communist Party meeting earlier this month, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel blamed U.S. sanctions -- the government’s favorite whipping boy -- for the crisis. Experts on the Cuban ...

Cuba is often expected to punch above its weight at the Olympics. Cuban boxers, for example, have won the second-highest amount of medals in Olympic history at 78, with 41 of them gold. Since the ...

Cuba blames the long-running U.S. trade embargo and Trump-era sanctions for fueling the economic crisis and the exodus of more than 400,000 Cubans leaving for the United States in the last two years.

In an hour-long documentary, 5NEWS Anchor Jo Ellison chronologically takes us back to the Arkansas River Valley in 1980 through the eyes of those who were there: A Cuban refugee, an attorney who ...