U.S. military officials said Thursday they released and sent to Belize a former al-Qaeda courier who had served his sentence. Majid Khan’s transfer ended an imprisonment that included torture at clandestine CIA sites and 16 years in Guantanamo Bay detention center. Khan, a Pakistani citizen who grew up outside of Baltimore, ended up in the … Read more
CNN — More than 7,500 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti were allowed to come to the United States under a program set up by the Biden administration earlier this month, which administration officials cited as contributing to a drop in border crossings, according to the data obtained. by CNN. President Joe Biden announced the … Read more
Havana, Cuba – Patri, 24, hides $1,100 in a storage ottoman in his bedroom in Havana, the Cuban capital. “It doesn’t sound like much, but I saved it for five years,” the manicurist and makeup artist said as she surveyed her thin stack of bills. Patri requested that his last name be omitted for his … Read more
A 20-state coalition and a leading conservative legal group are suing the Biden administration over its recently expanded humanitarian parole program that allows tens of thousands of migrants from designated countries to enter the United States for a month, arguing that the program is illegal. The lawsuit, filed by Texas and America First Legal in … Read more
The law enforcement talks come as US President Joe Biden’s administration eases relations with the Caribbean nation. The United States has announced that it will send a delegation to Cuba next week to restart talks between the two governments on law enforcement issues. Vedant Patel, spokesman for the US State Department, told reporters on Friday … Read more
Nearly 70 Haitian migrants recovered off Virginia Key Nearly 70 Haitian migrants recovered off Virginia Key 01:34 The Coast Guard returned another 177 Cuban migrants who were captured at sea off Florida to the island Thursday, while a group of about two dozen Haitians swam to Miami. The Cuban migrants were all intercepted separately off … Read more
CNN — The US Coast Guard said it repatriated 273 Cuban migrants on Sunday after intercepting a number of boats off the coast of Florida on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The migrants were returned to Cuba aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk, according to a press release. “The Coast Guard continues to … Read more
CNN — Ana Montes, a US citizen convicted of spying for Cuba, has been released from US federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, according to Federal Bureau of Prison online records. Cuba recruited Montes for espionage in the 1980s and she was employed by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency as an analyst from 1985 to … Read more
Ana Montes, a former analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency, the spy arm of the US military, was released Friday from federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, after more than 20 years behind bars. Montes spied for Cuba for 17 years, exposing the identities of undercover U.S. intelligence agents and her highly sensitive collection capabilities, … Read more
Five years after it closed due to mysterious “sound attacks” on diplomatic personnel, the US consulate in Havana resumed full immigrant visa services for Cubans on Wednesday. Read more: Kabaddi coach from Moga (Punjab) shot dead in the Philippines The reopening came amid a record exodus from the communist island to the United States, mostly … Read more
