Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

International News Briefs for Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Here are some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on, Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

May 1st has always been a holiday. This year, though, they gave workers time off from Thursday the first, right through Monday the 5th.

In 2016, the idea of opening a Cuban consulate in Florida resurfaced. The most logical location was in the Miami metropolitan area.

A year has passed since I arrived in the United States of America. It feels like it was just yesterday.

“Discrediting remarks and closing the door to any conversation from a position of power is a strategy that has historically borne no fruit…”

President Diaz-Canel proposes a direct flight between St. Petersburg and Havana to relaunch Russian tourism.

The pressure exerted by Trump on Mexico has prompted a shift in what was the Lopez Obrador government’s anti-drug strategy.

Here are some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on, Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

A friend of ours still living in Cuba, recently wrote to us, nearly in tears, because his phone fell to the ground and the screen shattered.

Through defunding and dismissing personnel, he’s launched what appears to be an attempt to dismantle the Human Rights Secretariat…