Cuba’s former economy minister and vice prime minister, Alejandro Gil, was sentenced to life in prison on charges including espionage, bribery, and corruption, in a rare, high-profile case.

It never failed. The sound of death came punctually, reliably, at 9 p.m. each night. It reverberated on the grounds of the notorious La Cabaña prison in Havana, where the men who had dared to defy the ...

Cuba’s top court has sentenced former Economy Minister Alejandro Gil to life in prison for espionage following a closed-door trial, in one of the country’s highest-profile cases in decades. In a ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Karen Vasquez, 44, walked out of jail in Cuba on Sunday, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican under which the Biden administration would loosen sanctions on the communist-run ...

An American aid worker, who had spent over five years in jail in Cuba on charges of spying, was released today as part of a prisoner swap deal between the two countries as the White House announced ...

Cuba has freed more than a dozen political prisoners shortly after outgoing US President Joe Biden announced he was taking the country off Washington’s state sponsors of terrorism list. The prisoners ...

Cuban Jewish leaders met with Alan Gross, a Jewish-American contractor in prison in Cuba. Havana community President Adela Dworkin and vice president David Prinstein met with Gross on the last day of ...

Trump revoked recent Biden decision to remove Cuba from terrorism blacklist Havana had begun to release prisoners seen by West as political detainees Future of deal and of those still in jail now ...

HAVANA — Cuba's top court on Monday said a former economy minister was sentenced to life in prison for espionage, in the highest-profile case against an ex-official in recent years on the island. The ...