‘The city is like a ghost town’: Inside Cuba’s tourism collapse as fuel runs dry
Cuba has received no oil or fuel for a month after US president Donald Trump cut off Venezuelan supplies and pressed Mexico to stop shipments
Cuba
Avoid non-essential travel to Cuba, Irish citizens told
‘Serious and potentially life-threatening risks’ associated with travelling to Cuba, says Department of Foreign Affairs
US blockade of Cuba serves only ambitions of empire
Ireland, and the international community more broadly, must turn our eyes to Cuba
What’s the deal between Donald Trump and Cuba?
US is reportedly seeking to negotiate regime change in Cuba, but the country has no oil and exports little
Do we have to watch this chainsaw-massacre political horror movie to its end?
Border forces have been deployed in the American heartlands – masked, camouflaged and bristling with firearms
‘You can be against Trump and celebrate that Maduro is gone’: Venezuelans protest in Dublin
Protesters in Dublin say those opposed to leader’s removal do not reflect views of Venezuelans
Cuban soldiers killed in US raid expose years of denial over Havana’s role in Venezuela
Foreign soldiers have long bolstered Maduro’s repressive regime and helped suppress citizen protests, say analysts
It’s worth asking again why Sinn Féin sent a delegation to Maduro’s inauguration
Is the ugliness of the Trump regime in Washington mirrored in Sinn Féin’s ambitions for a hard-left Chavista socialist republic in Ireland?
Cuba says 32 of its citizens were killed in US attacks on Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro had expanded Cuban bodyguards’ role in his personal security
‘Every 10 years, US likes to pick up some crappy little country and throw it at the wall’
‘Every ten years, the US needs to pick some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall.’ This is at least part of the reason for the Venezuela operation
Translated fiction: Explorations of trauma, loss, exile and memory
An Infinite Sadness by Antônio Xerxenesky’s; False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez; Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko; and Not There by Mariusz Szczygieł
Hurricane Melissa dissipates, leaving at least 50 dead
Weather system identified as most powerful storm to strike Jamaica directly
Hurricane Melissa in pictures: Wrecked livelihoods, lost animals, salvaged homes
Three Caribbean Islands have been crippled by Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa kills 25 in Haiti after leaving widespread damage in Jamaica
Desperate pleas for help as 735,000 people remain in shelters in eastern Cuba
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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