Yoennis Domínguez de la Rosa, a young Cuban who was sentenced to five years in prison for filming and sharing videos of a police confrontation in

Cuba has released prominent dissident José Daniel Ferrer from jail, as part of a Cuban government decision to gradually free more than 500 prisoners as part of talks with the Vatican.

Cuban dissident and human rights activist Jose Daniel Ferrer told Reuters on Thursday he had been released from jail and was at home, part of a broader plan negotiated with the Vatican to gradually free upwards of 500 prisoners.

Hundreds more Cuban dissidents are expected to be released in the coming days in a deal with President Biden, but even a top beneficiary is balking.

The Biden administration said it would remove Cuba from its terrorism blacklist, while Cuba said separately it would release upward of 500 prisoners from its jails.

To the extent that the dictatorship must be condemned…we must look for mechanisms that can help alleviate hunger.”

The eminent musician and composer Enrique Bonne, National Music Prize (2016), died today in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, at the age of 98.

In a bid to recover his 4-year-old autistic daughter's cherished doll, a desperate father in Havana has announced a reward. The doll, a hard rubber

Standout relics include blood-stained uniforms of the fallen from the Santiago de Cuba Moncada Barracks ... located a few blocks east of Old Havana's main thoroughfare, Paseo de Marti.

Havana, January 8 (RHC)-- Cuba commemorates on Wednesday the 66th anniversary of the arrival to Havana of the "Caravan of Freedom" of the Rebel Army, with Fidel Castro in command, following the revolutionary victory on January 1, 1959.