President Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on any country that delivers oil to Cuba appeared to be directed largely at Mexico, the only nation that has sent any meaningful fuel shipments to the island.

As tensions between the US and Cuba rise to the highest levels since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the mood was grim at a recent staff meeting at the US Embassy in Havana.

Caribbean correspondent Dánica Coto has returned to Cuba after more than three years. She finds the island changed, with garbage piling up and fuel shortages affecting daily life.

Cuba’s leader says US president’s threat to impose tariffs on countries providing oil is ‘fascist, criminal, genocidal’.

La corresponsal de The Associated Press para el Caribe, Dánica Coto, regresó a Cuba a finales de enero, más de tres años después de

Tourism in Cuba is plummeting at a time when the island desperately needs that revenue. For almost two decades, a steady trickle of visitors led to a boom in tourism, only for the pandemic and severe blackouts to hit,