The new sanctions stem from a new national security memorandum signed by President Donald Trump on Monday laying out a new ...

In Cuba, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez called the proposed policy change "criminal behavior that violates the #HumanRights ...

According to Roig-Franzia, Rubio's grandfather first entered the United States as a legal immigrant in 1956, but returned to Cuba about two years later after failing to find steady work in America.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio blacklisted Cuba on Tuesday as a country that did not fully cooperate with U.S. counterterrorism efforts in 2024 and blasted the government in Havana for its refusal ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Cuba failed to cooperate with U.S. counterterrorism efforts in 2024 due to their refusal to discuss returning wanted fugitives.

But in late February, Florida’s Marco Rubio — the U.S. Secretary of State on a very short Donald Trump-held leash — sought to once again undermine Cuba’s medical missions abroad.

“Marco Rubio as secretary of state should be very aware of the history of the rise of authoritarianism in Cuba and how that really dismantled more than 100 years of the struggle for democracy on ...

As Secretary of State in the Trump administration, former Senator Marco Rubio, ... Nora Gámez Torres is the Cuba/U.S.-Latin American policy reporter for el Nuevo Herald and the Miami Herald.

Marco Rubio delivers remarks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on his nomination to be Secretary of State on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Rubio, at the time a U.S. senator from Florida, had actively contributed to drafting the sanctions against the Cuban military, including the Cuba Restricted List, during Trump’s first term.