<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comSun, 05 Apr 2026 10:36:29 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[The ‘victims’ left in Kristi Noem’s wake: ‘The damage is done. To me, to the Americans who have been murdered, to the migrants’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-05/the-victims-left-in-kristi-noems-wake-the-damage-is-done-to-me-to-the-americans-who-have-been-murdered-to-the-migrants.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-05/the-victims-left-in-kristi-noems-wake-the-damage-is-done-to-me-to-the-americans-who-have-been-murdered-to-the-migrants.htmlSun, 05 Apr 2026 03:30:00 +0000In a few hours, Arianne Betancourt will face one of the people responsible for her father being locked up in Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center. It’s the afternoon of March 2, and she is boarding an American Airlines flight in Miami. Later, she touches down in Washington, leaves the airport and heads to the mall in Pentagon City, where she locates the Macy’s. She looks for clothes that “stand out.” She doesn’t want to go “dressed in mourning clothes.” “If they drag me out, I want people to know that it was me that they removed, because I couldn’t stay silent.” She chooses a pink jacket and pair of pants, pays for the set and goes to her hotel. She is almost ready to look into the eyes of Kristi Noem, who is still the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Noem is set to appear the following day at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It will ultimately lead to Noem’s dismissal.

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]]>Alex Brandon<![CDATA[Sheridan Gorman, the latest case Trump is using to defend the expulsion of migrants ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-24/sheridan-gorman-the-latest-case-trump-is-using-to-defend-the-expulsion-of-migrants.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-24/sheridan-gorman-the-latest-case-trump-is-using-to-defend-the-expulsion-of-migrants.htmlTue, 24 Mar 2026 10:25:08 +0000Traces of the flowers and candles that friends, family, and classmates brought as a farewell to the Tobey Prinz Beach pier in the Rogers Park neighborhood, north of Chicago, still remain. On Thursday, March 20, at around 2 a.m., Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old student at Loyola University, was walking there with friends, all young people like herself. They wanted to see the Northern Lights, Gorman’s parents later said in a statement. Gorman was “walking with friends, close to home, in an area where she had every right to feel safe,” when someone shot and killed her. Her case has gained national attention after the Trump administration revealed that the man accused of her murder was an undocumented immigrant, making her the latest figure being used by the White House to unleash a wave of xenophobia and justify the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

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]]><![CDATA[Cubans at their limit: ‘How is it possible that in my country they listen to anyone but the people?’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-18/cubans-at-their-limit-how-is-it-possible-that-in-my-country-they-listen-to-anyone-but-the-people.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-18/cubans-at-their-limit-how-is-it-possible-that-in-my-country-they-listen-to-anyone-but-the-people.htmlWed, 18 Mar 2026 11:29:36 +0000When Yenisey Taboada heard Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel say last Friday that his government was negotiating with the United States, she wondered why the authorities had never been able to talk to their own people. She is the mother of Duannis León Taboada, a 26-year-old who joined the massive protests of July 11, 2021, and ended up serving a 14-year prison sentence. The mother reflects on how the government, now open to talks with the Trump administration, sentenced so many people for demanding basic freedoms. “How is it possible that in my country they are able to sit down and listen and dialogue with anyone, except with our children, with our brothers and sisters, with these people who are, literally, dying?”

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]]>Gladys Serrano<![CDATA[Trump says he will be ‘having the honor of taking Cuba’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-17/trump-says-he-will-be-having-the-honor-of-taking-cuba.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-17/trump-says-he-will-be-having-the-honor-of-taking-cuba.htmlTue, 17 Mar 2026 08:48:37 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Monday at a news conference in the White House that “I do believe I will be having the honor of taking Cuba.” The remarks come amid the escalating war against Iran and tensions with Havana over the energy blockade against the island, which has not received a single drop of fuel for three months. “I think I can do anything I want with it,” he said. “They’re a very weakened nation right now.”

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]]>Jonathan Ernst<![CDATA[Cuba opens up to investments from Cubans living abroad]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-16/cuba-opens-up-to-investments-from-cubans-living-abroad.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-16/cuba-opens-up-to-investments-from-cubans-living-abroad.htmlMon, 16 Mar 2026 19:28:32 +0000On Monday night, the Cuban government is expected to formally unveil the strategy it appears to be embracing to confront the historic crisis gripping the island. After years of restricting its relationship with the diaspora, Cuba now plans to allow Cuban residents abroad to return, invest in the private sector, and own businesses. This shift is presented as part of a broader set of economic reforms being pushed forward amid pressure from the Trump administration.

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]]>Ramon Espinosa<![CDATA[Cuba’s collapse in the age of influencers: ‘Staying here should be a source of pride, not a sacrifice’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-14/cubas-collapse-in-the-age-of-influencers-staying-here-should-be-a-source-of-pride-not-a-sacrifice.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-14/cubas-collapse-in-the-age-of-influencers-staying-here-should-be-a-source-of-pride-not-a-sacrifice.htmlSat, 14 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000They were born when the Revolution had nothing left to offer them. Some are between 20 and 22 years old and have found less freedom on the streets than in 60-second-long Instagram reels. They dropped out of university or quit their professions, in order to seize the opportunities that YouTube offers. They learned to record themselves during blackouts, to edit in the silent early morning hours, and to have the patience to upload a 40-second, 60-megabyte video to the internet over the course of three or four hours.

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]]>Marcel Villa<![CDATA[Oil, the crisis crushing Cuba and giving Trump new leverage ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-14/oil-the-crisis-crushing-cuba-and-giving-trump-new-leverage.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-14/oil-the-crisis-crushing-cuba-and-giving-trump-new-leverage.htmlSat, 14 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000No one knows who did it, because it happened in the middle of a blackout — and if the blackout has one defining trait, it’s that your neighbor could just as easily be you, leveling everyone under the same terrible veil of darkness. The truth is that someone in the Poey neighborhood of Havana set fire to a utility pole in an act of rebellion and exhaustion, like someone who would rather remain in darkness forever than have the electricity gradually restored. Cubans have stopped counting the hours they’re without power and have started measuring the time by how long it will take for power to come back for good.

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]]>Ramon Espinosa<![CDATA[Cuba confirms talks with US amid a fuel shortage crisis]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-13/cuba-confirms-talks-with-us-amid-a-fuel-shortage-crisis.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-13/cuba-confirms-talks-with-us-amid-a-fuel-shortage-crisis.htmlFri, 13 Mar 2026 13:16:39 +0000Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed Thursday morning that officials from his government recently began talks with representatives of the Donald Trump administration. He insisted that it has been the practice of the Cuban Revolution not to “respond to speculative campaigns on this type of issue.” Until now, despite the fact that Trump himself had indicated on several occasions that they were in talks with Havana, Cuban authorities remained silent, or at times denied that any negotiations were taking place.

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]]>CONTACTO vía Europa Press<![CDATA[The week the Gutiérrez-Pulido family lost everything: from their house burning down to the father’s arrest by ICE]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-12/the-week-the-gutierrez-pulido-family-lost-everything-from-their-house-burning-down-to-the-fathers-arrest-by-ice.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-12/the-week-the-gutierrez-pulido-family-lost-everything-from-their-house-burning-down-to-the-fathers-arrest-by-ice.htmlThu, 12 Mar 2026 20:43:40 +0000When they saw their house engulfed in flames, as if a fire-breathing dragon were slowly swallowing it, the Gutiérrez-Pulido family felt they had lost too much: the birth photos of their three children, now reduced to ashes; the collection of Princess House pots, disfigured by the fire; the children’s musical instruments, reduced to rubble; even the jacket their eldest son, 17, had bought for his high school graduation. “When he looked at the fire, Ángel just kept saying, ‘My senior jacket, my senior jacket!’” says his mother, Griselda Pulido. They had lost so much, and yet life still had something more to take from them. Three days later, while he was clearing the rubble of the house where they had lived for 20 years, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took the father, José Mendoza Gutierrez, and the family thought that now they were completely lost.

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]]><![CDATA[Cuba opens up to public‑private enterprises for the first time in nearly 70 years ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-05/cuba-opens-up-to-publicprivate-enterprises-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-70-years.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-05/cuba-opens-up-to-publicprivate-enterprises-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-70-years.htmlThu, 05 Mar 2026 14:22:49 +0000The Cuban government, after decades of treating the private sector as an internal adversary, appears to be easing its stance for the first time in nearly 70 years. Facing a deep economic crisis, Cuba’s Official Gazette has published a new decree‑law allowing the creation of public‑private enterprises. These partnerships between state and non‑state actors would have the authority to decide what goods and services to offer, and to set prices and wages.

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]]>Norlys Perez<![CDATA[The Iranian community in the US, caught between euphoria and criticism: ‘A political solution is needed’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-03/the-iranian-community-in-the-us-caught-between-euphoria-and-criticism-a-political-solution-is-needed.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-03/the-iranian-community-in-the-us-caught-between-euphoria-and-criticism-a-political-solution-is-needed.htmlTue, 03 Mar 2026 09:08:42 +0000The attack on Iran launched by the United States and Israel last weekend has elicited a mixed reaction from the Iranian diaspora in the United States. Some people have been euphoric since the early hours of Saturday, when the strikes began, while others have a more critical view of a conflict that the Trump administration has unilaterally unleashed without consulting Congress or taking the international community into account.

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]]>Qian Weizhong<![CDATA[The exiles keeping vigil over their dead: Florida Cubans left confounded after the attack on a US speedboat]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-02/the-exiles-keeping-vigil-over-their-dead-florida-cubans-left-confounded-after-the-attack-on-a-us-speedboat.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-02/the-exiles-keeping-vigil-over-their-dead-florida-cubans-left-confounded-after-the-attack-on-a-us-speedboat.htmlMon, 02 Mar 2026 19:11:14 +0000They haven’t seen the bodies, nor do they know if the ashes will arrive in South Florida, but Cuban exiles have begun to honor their dead. They have been doing so for decades — keeping vigil from afar over the bodies of family members who died far away, or who drowned at sea.

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]]>CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH<![CDATA[Miami is more anxious than ever for the fall of Castroism: ‘Let whatever has to happen, happen, otherwise we will never be free’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-28/miami-is-more-anxious-than-ever-for-the-fall-of-castroism-let-whatever-has-to-happen-happen-otherwise-we-will-never-be-free.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-28/miami-is-more-anxious-than-ever-for-the-fall-of-castroism-let-whatever-has-to-happen-happen-otherwise-we-will-never-be-free.htmlSat, 28 Feb 2026 04:45:00 +0000The burns on Ingrid Arenas’s hands don’t reflect all the pizzas she’s actually baked to make a living. In February 19, she arrived at Tío Colo, her pizzeria on Coral Way in Miami, and started early, preparing orders of Cuban pizzas and ice cream sundaes. In Hialeah, her son and daughter-in-law run a similar establishment, serving dozens of customers, and even her five young grandchildren help prepare or deliver food. Business is booming; she seems to have everything she needs.

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]]>Eva Marie UZCATEGUI<![CDATA[Washington’s muted response to the attack on a speedboat in Cuban waters]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-27/washingtons-muted-response-to-the-attack-on-a-boat-in-cuban-waters.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-27/washingtons-muted-response-to-the-attack-on-a-boat-in-cuban-waters.htmlFri, 27 Feb 2026 09:09:16 +0000The U.S. government was slow to react. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in the Caribbean when, in those same waters, the Cuban Coast Guard fired on a civilian boat carrying 10 people that had arrived from Florida. The Cuban-American, who had traveled to the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis to defend Washington’s agenda at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders’ summit, had to pause before reporters eager to hear his reaction to the incident in Cuban waters, which left four dead, including a U.S. citizen. “I’m not going to opine on what I don’t yet know,” he said. “But we’re going to find out exactly what happened here, and then we’ll respond accordingly.”

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]]>Jonathan Ernst<![CDATA[Trump’s plans for Cubans in the US: ‘Maybe they want to go back. They’re going to have that choice’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-25/trumps-plans-for-cubans-in-the-us-maybe-they-want-to-go-back-theyre-going-to-have-that-choice.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-25/trumps-plans-for-cubans-in-the-us-maybe-they-want-to-go-back-theyre-going-to-have-that-choice.htmlWed, 25 Feb 2026 09:53:49 +0000Without elaborating on a plan, President Donald Trump has hinted in recent weeks at his administration’s position on Cuba: he began by repeatedly calling it a “failed nation” that “will fall very soon,” and has ended by speculating about a possible dialogue with the Cuban leadership. Amidst all the anticipation surrounding what might or might not happen in the near future, one idea has received less attention, although Trump, very much in line with his domestic policy, has taken pains to reiterate it in several of his recent statements: the possibility that Cuban migrants will return to an island that welcomes them back. Or, in other words, including deportations on the negotiating table.

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]]>Eva Marie UZCATEGUI<![CDATA[The odyssey of the first Cubans deported from the United States to Guantánamo]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-22/the-odyssey-of-the-first-cubans-deported-from-the-united-states-to-guantanamo.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-22/the-odyssey-of-the-first-cubans-deported-from-the-united-states-to-guantanamo.htmlSun, 22 Feb 2026 04:00:00 +0000On January 31, during bathing time at Camp 6, the Cuban detainees at Guantánamo Bay heard a loud crash in the shower area — the sound of a body collapsing. One of them, Vladimir Gago Soriano, fell heavily onto his ailing left leg, which had undergone eight surgeries and is barely functional since a motorcycle accident two years prior. He slipped on a puddle of water on the floor, and the detainees began shouting for help. The authorities, who took an hour to arrive, handcuffed him and put him in a kind of truck. From the loud noise of the engine, Vladimir guesses it was a large vehicle, although he isn’t certain because they blindfolded him so he would never know exactly where he was or what the maximum-security military installation looked like — the same installation where some of the world’s most wanted terrorists have been held, and where he, an Uber Eats delivery driver, had also found himself.

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]]>EDUARDO RAMÓN<![CDATA[The sinking of Cuba: ‘We are a sacrificial altar’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-21/the-sinking-of-cuba-we-are-a-sacrificial-altar.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-21/the-sinking-of-cuba-we-are-a-sacrificial-altar.htmlSat, 21 Feb 2026 04:00:00 +0000A few blocks from Revolution Square, in a former shantytown in Havana, Dr. Omitsa Valdés holds her consultations. It’s a dusty, dilapidated place where she tells patients they must bring their own syringe and medication from home. But if a general checkup is needed, including urine and blood tests, Dr. Valdés is even more direct: “If you can get it done yourself, I’ll write the order. If not, you’re out of luck, my dear, because the polyclinic you’re assigned to doesn’t have the re-agents,” she tells a patient while recycling old papers used to write prescriptions.

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]]>MARCEL VILLA<![CDATA[The mystery surrounding Cuba’s next ruler: The man who is emerging as the ‘Delcy Rodríguez of Havana’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-14/the-mystery-surrounding-cubas-next-ruler-the-man-who-is-emerging-as-the-delcy-rodriguez-of-havana.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-14/the-mystery-surrounding-cubas-next-ruler-the-man-who-is-emerging-as-the-delcy-rodriguez-of-havana.htmlSat, 14 Feb 2026 04:00:00 +0000He doesn’t have an X account. He’s not on Facebook. Nobody knows where he lives or what kind of life he leads. In fact, people don’t have a clue who he is. “I’ve never heard of him,” says a bakery worker in Bauta, a municipality west of Havana. “No idea who he is,” a housewife from Pinar del Río shrugs, when asked if she knows Óscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, the great-nephew of Fidel and Raúl Castro. According to several analysts, he could play the same role in Cuba as Delcy Rodríguez did in Venezuela. He’s a technocrat who has the qualifications to become president of Cuba in the event of negotiations with Washington. And his low profile is a good sign for the survival strategy of the Castro dynasty, should they decide to back him.

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]]><![CDATA[Cuban opposition leaders on dialogue with the US: ‘The solution to the suffering of the people must be at the center of the debate’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-06/cuban-opposition-leaders-on-dialogue-with-the-us-the-solution-to-the-suffering-of-the-people-must-be-at-the-center-of-the-debate.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-06/cuban-opposition-leaders-on-dialogue-with-the-us-the-solution-to-the-suffering-of-the-people-must-be-at-the-center-of-the-debate.htmlFri, 06 Feb 2026 10:03:08 +0000A statement from the Cuban Presidency announced that at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 5, its YouTube channel would broadcast an address by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the first time he would be stepping away from X posts and take up a microphone to address the Cuban people since the escalation of tensions with Washington began. José Daniel Ferrer, the renowned leader of the Cuban opposition, tuned in to the address, carefully analyzing and weighing each of the president’s words. “He didn’t say anything new, just what they’ve always said,” he asserted afterwards. He was alluding to the Castro regime’s willingness to establish a dialogue with the United States, at a time of economic crisis that has cornered the Havana power elite.

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]]>NORLYS PEREZ<![CDATA[Cuba is ‘willing to engage in dialogue with the US,’ says president Miguel Díaz-Canel]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-05/cuba-is-willing-to-engage-in-dialogue-with-the-us-says-president-miguel-diaz-canel.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-05/cuba-is-willing-to-engage-in-dialogue-with-the-us-says-president-miguel-diaz-canel.htmlThu, 05 Feb 2026 18:28:43 +0000Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel made it clear, amid ongoing tension with Washington, that “Cuba is willing to engage in dialogue with the United States,” a position that, according to him, was first defended by Fidel Castro and later by the latter’s brother Raúl. The president’s appearance this Thursday morning was his first televised address to the Cuban people since the arrest of Nicolás Maduro on January 3, after several weeks in which Cuban authorities had limited themselves to issuing rather moderate messages on the social platform X, where they had already made clear their willingness to engage in dialogue with U.S. officials.

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]]>Yamil Lage<![CDATA[Cubans also want an amnesty for their political prisoners]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-03/cubans-also-want-an-amnesty-for-their-political-prisoners.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-03/cubans-also-want-an-amnesty-for-their-political-prisoners.htmlTue, 03 Feb 2026 08:57:07 +0000Wilber Aguilar left his home in La Güinera on January 19, 2024, and arrived at the offices of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) in Central Havana, carrying an important document and a burning desire to see his son walk free. It was a petition for an Amnesty Law for Cuban political prisoners, among them Walniel Luis Aguilar Rivera, his 25-year-old son, who had taken to the streets during the popular protests of July 11, 2021, across Cuba and was ultimately sentenced to 12 years in prison for sedition. Yesterday, upon learning of the general amnesty for political prisoners in Venezuela, this father renewed his plea for his son’s return home with even greater force. “It’s been almost two years since I submitted the petition and I’m still waiting,” Aguilar told El PAÍS. “I’m just a man defending his family. All I’m demanding is freedom, an amnesty; we’re asking for an end to this injustice.”

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]]>Ramon Espinosa<![CDATA[Diana Moreno, the Ecuadorian migrant and friend of Zohran Mamdani who hopes to replace him in the New York State Assembly]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-02/diana-moreno-the-ecuadorian-migrant-and-friend-of-zohran-mamdani-who-hopes-to-replace-him-in-the-new-york-state-assembly.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-02/diana-moreno-the-ecuadorian-migrant-and-friend-of-zohran-mamdani-who-hopes-to-replace-him-in-the-new-york-state-assembly.htmlMon, 02 Feb 2026 13:30:57 +0000After dropping her baby off at daycare, Diana Moreno arrives at Madame Sousou, an Astoria café stocked with pastries, sandwiches, and cakes. She greets the staff who already know her, orders something hot, takes off her coat, and opens her laptop. From a blue tote bag that reads “Zohran for NYC” in yellow letters, she pulls out a makeup bag for a touch-up. This is how the day begins for the frontrunner in the race to succeed Zohran Mamdani as the State Assembly District 36 representative, now that the mayor has moved from his rent-controlled apartment in Queens to Gracie Mansion in Manhattan, after being elected in a landslide to govern the capital of the world.

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]]>corrie aune<![CDATA[Trump’s oil tariff push deepens Cuba’s agony: ‘I’m just doing my best to survive’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-02/trumps-oil-tariff-push-deepens-cubas-agony-im-just-doing-my-best-to-survive.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-02/trumps-oil-tariff-push-deepens-cubas-agony-im-just-doing-my-best-to-survive.htmlMon, 02 Feb 2026 10:41:14 +0000Lines to buy fuel in Havana have been longer than usual in recent weeks. It’s not that Cubans have more money, that there’s greater supply, or that prices have gone down. The gasoline currently available at service stations is sold mostly in dollars and, despite being more expensive, it runs out quickly. Lines of cars pile up at gas stations.

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]]>Ramon Espinosa<![CDATA[‘Abolish ICE,’ the movement that seeks to dismantle Trump’s immigration police]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-27/abolish-ice-the-movement-that-seeks-to-dismantle-trumps-immigration-police.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-27/abolish-ice-the-movement-that-seeks-to-dismantle-trumps-immigration-police.htmlTue, 27 Jan 2026 11:35:23 +0000In Donald Trump’s United States, where immigration agents have fatally shot two citizens in the past three weeks, calls are growing to shut down the agency tasked with carrying out the anti-immigrant crusade launched by the White House. The Abolish ICE movement is not new, but in recent weeks it has gained unprecedented momentum as citizens demand the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The effort to dismantle the agency has divided not only Democrats and Republicans in Congress, but also the Democrats among themselves, amid a debate over whether to defund, eliminate, or simply redirect ICE’s tactics, especially now that another federal government shutdown is at stake.

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]]>CRAIG LASSIG<![CDATA[From the Bay of Pigs to the capture of Maduro: Over half a century of waiting for the fall of Castroism]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-26/from-the-bay-of-pigs-to-the-capture-of-maduro-over-half-a-century-of-waiting-for-the-fall-of-castroism.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-26/from-the-bay-of-pigs-to-the-capture-of-maduro-over-half-a-century-of-waiting-for-the-fall-of-castroism.htmlMon, 26 Jan 2026 14:53:45 +0000The players at Domino Park must abide by certain rules that have been respected for years: speak softly, don’t carry alcoholic beverages, don’t arrive in flip-flops, and be a Miami resident no younger than 55. No one can explain why that’s the age limit, but it offers certain internal guarantees to the players: they won’t sit with novices or enthusiastic tourists visiting Calle Ocho, the heart of the disapora in Miami, to admire the nostalgic murals of Cuban exile, but rather be able to play one-on-one with their own kind, those who know Little Havana, people who left Cuba and helped build a city on “the swamp that was Miami,” who spend long hours thinking about what a return would be like and who never stop talking about politics. During a strange, cold January afternoon, almost a month after Nicolás Maduro’s capture, the players at the table wondered at what stage the Cuban regime had come closest to disappearing.

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]]>Sovfoto<![CDATA[‘They don’t even bother using subliminal messages’: Trump administration’s Nazi references spark outrage]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-19/they-dont-even-bother-using-subliminal-messages-trump-administrations-nazi-references-spark-outrage.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-19/they-dont-even-bother-using-subliminal-messages-trump-administrations-nazi-references-spark-outrage.htmlMon, 19 Jan 2026 15:26:31 +0000The world’s richest man set the tone. On the very day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk placed his right hand on his chest and then raised his arm diagonally, a chilling gesture that set off alarm bells in the audience at Washington’s Capital One Arena: was he giving the Nazi salute? Was the Third Reich now reincarnated in MAGA America? One year after the return of Trumpism to the White House — and with it a surge in supremacist ideology — signals and references to fascism, Nazism, and white supremacy are present in numerous communications from the administration.

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]]>David Dee Delgado<![CDATA[Maduro’s capture boosts support for Trump among Venezuelans and Cubans: ‘He’s a man of his word’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-17/maduros-capture-boosts-support-for-trump-among-venezuelans-and-cubans-hes-a-man-of-his-word.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-17/maduros-capture-boosts-support-for-trump-among-venezuelans-and-cubans-hes-a-man-of-his-word.htmlSat, 17 Jan 2026 04:00:00 +0000A statue of Donald Trump should be erected right next to that of Simón Bolívar in the main square of Caracas’ historic center. That way, everyone who passes by will remember that Venezuela was first liberated by a Venezuelan… and then by an American. This is suggested by Carlos Muñoz, an electrician who has lived in the United States for 10 years. He believes that this would be the best way to honor Trump and offer some joy to people like him and fellow Venezuelan, Yanet Tensenberg. “The only way they would have left the government was with a military intervention,” he says. She nods along, adding, “Trump is a man of his word.”

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]]><![CDATA[Four migrants have died in ICE custody so far this year: ‘I never imagined my father would come out like that’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-14/four-migrants-have-died-in-ice-custody-so-far-this-year-i-never-imagined-my-father-would-come-out-like-that.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-14/four-migrants-have-died-in-ice-custody-so-far-this-year-i-never-imagined-my-father-would-come-out-like-that.htmlWed, 14 Jan 2026 17:10:49 +0000At noon on Tuesday, January 6, when she was hoping 2026 would be a better year, Josselyn Yáñez received a call from an officer with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The officer, politely, asked who she was — if she was the daughter of Mr. Luis Beltrán Yáñez-Cruz. “I told him, ‘Yes, I am his daughter.’” Then the officer said he was sorry to inform her that her father, a 68-year-old Honduran migrant who was in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had died in the early morning. From one day to the next, her father was no longer just her father, but one of the four migrants who died during the first 10 days of the year after being detained by immigration authorities.

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]]>Stacey Wescott<![CDATA[Trump aims to strangle Cuba, but Cubans say this only punishes them]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-13/trump-aims-to-strangle-cuba-but-cubans-say-this-only-punishes-them.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-13/trump-aims-to-strangle-cuba-but-cubans-say-this-only-punishes-them.htmlTue, 13 Jan 2026 17:34:34 +0000Marc Thiessen, former White House director of speechwriting, recently posted a provocative message on X: “The Cuban regime has survived every president since Eisenhower. Wouldn’t it be something if that streak ended with Donald Trump?”

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]]>Norlys Perez<![CDATA[Maduro pleads not guilty before the federal court in New York: ‘I am still the president of Venezuela’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-05/maduro-pleads-not-guilty-before-the-federal-court-in-new-york-i-am-still-the-president-of-venezuela.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-05/maduro-pleads-not-guilty-before-the-federal-court-in-new-york-i-am-still-the-president-of-venezuela.htmlMon, 05 Jan 2026 18:54:01 +0000Nicolás Maduro, the deposed president of Venezuela, captured last Saturday in Caracas by U.S. forces and transferred to New York in a lightning military operation, along with his wife, Cilia Flores, has pleaded not guilty to the four drug-related terrorism charges against him in the United States. “I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man. I am still president of my country,” Maduro declared through an interpreter, before being interrupted by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, as reported by Reuters. Flores also pleaded not guilty.

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]]>Angelina Katsanis<![CDATA[The new victims of the Republican war on Obamacare: Millions hit by soaring health insurance premiums]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-02/the-new-victims-of-the-republican-war-on-obamacare-millions-hit-by-soaring-health-insurance-premiums.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-02/the-new-victims-of-the-republican-war-on-obamacare-millions-hit-by-soaring-health-insurance-premiums.htmlFri, 02 Jan 2026 09:38:41 +0000Saray Pérez first saw on social media what her insurance agent, Mariela Feal, later confirmed: the new year would add another bill on top of her rent, water, electricity, car insurance, and food expenses — monthly costs that are making life increasingly difficult in the United States. She and her husband, who had been paying nothing for MyFlorida Blue insurance, will now have to pay $70 per month each starting in 2026, a significant sum for the stylist, just a year after starting a beauty and hair care company in Florida. It may seem small at first glance, but it amounts to over $1,600 a year for the couple, which, amid a cost-of-living crisis, can be decisive.

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]]>Rebecca Blackwell<![CDATA[The year Trump created 1.6 million undocumented immigrants]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-30/the-year-trump-created-16-million-undocumented-immigrants.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-30/the-year-trump-created-16-million-undocumented-immigrants.htmlTue, 30 Dec 2025 09:40:52 +0000In 2023, the Pew Research Center estimated the total number of undocumented immigrants in the United States at 14 million. In 2024, Republicans campaigned on the promise to deport 20 million undocumented immigrants. By 2025, the figure — on which the U.S. government and international organizations still disagree — was already much higher in official discourse, with Donald Trump even stating that there were 25 million immigrants “who shouldn’t be here.” Amid so many conflicting and unverifiable figures, what is certain as we approach 2026 is that the current administration has made 1.6 million people undocumented this year alone, with a well-oiled anti-immigrant policy that has made those previously protected illegal, revoked the documents of those who had them, and is now deporting those it initially welcomed.

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]]>Cristopher Rogel Blanquet<![CDATA[Confined to a Cuban hospital: When electricity is a matter of life or death ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-28/confined-to-a-cuban-hospital-when-electricity-is-a-matter-of-life-or-death.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-28/confined-to-a-cuban-hospital-when-electricity-is-a-matter-of-life-or-death.htmlSun, 28 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000No one could imagine that Jeisel Hernández would die in the night, at the age of five, far from home.

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]]>marcel villa<![CDATA[How migrants in the United States are spending Christmas: ‘There is no reason to celebrate’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-25/how-migrants-in-the-united-states-are-spending-christmas-there-is-no-reason-to-celebrate.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-25/how-migrants-in-the-united-states-are-spending-christmas-there-is-no-reason-to-celebrate.htmlThu, 25 Dec 2025 08:58:23 +0000Pablo Casanella, the son of Cuban scientist and activist Oscar Casanella, wrote a letter to Santa Claus with two requests. “I’ve been very good all year. I’ve studied a lot. Forgive me if I sometimes play too much Minecraft and watch too much [sic] YouTube videos,” he told him, before asking for a Lego set. But that was his second request. The first, “and most important,” is a wish Casanella never wanted to read in his eight-year-old son’s Christmas letter: “Please grant my dad political asylum so we aren’t deported from the United States and so the Cuban military doesn’t arrest him, beat him, or imprison him.”

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]]><![CDATA[Being trans or gay in a migrant detention center: ‘They call me faggot, queer, bitch’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-23/being-trans-or-gay-in-a-migrant-detention-center-they-call-me-faggot-queer-bitch.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-23/being-trans-or-gay-in-a-migrant-detention-center-they-call-me-faggot-queer-bitch.htmlTue, 23 Dec 2025 08:36:26 +0000There are terrible guards, but also some “good” ones at the Krome Detention Center in Miami. One of them handed Juan Girón a letter written by Kimberly, the trans woman he met when he was going to the bathroom and who called out to him, “Hey, girl, pssst, hi.” Now you might say that he and Kimberly are friends. He gave her a devotional scapular, and they get emotional when they see each other in the yard during the hour of sunlight they’re allowed each day, or when they write to each other as though they’d known each other forever, aware of how lucky they were to find each other.

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]]>Jose A. Iglesias<![CDATA[Trump’s impact on International Migrants Day: ‘It has been one of the most difficult years, the cruelest’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-18/trumps-impact-on-international-migrants-day-it-has-been-one-of-the-most-difficult-years-the-cruelest.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-18/trumps-impact-on-international-migrants-day-it-has-been-one-of-the-most-difficult-years-the-cruelest.htmlThu, 18 Dec 2025 10:43:07 +0000Yareliz Mendez-Zamora, from the pro-immigrant American Friends Service Committee in Florida, cherishes a memory that could be used to encapsulate 2025. It is the memory of a family who were given a choice as to their fate at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Miramar, Miami. The couple had arrived early for the woman’s appointment with the authorities. She went inside, while her husband remained outside, but an unexpected message informed him that he, too, had to enter the building. At that moment, the officers told them that one of them was going to be deported, but that the couple had to choose who it would be. She said she would leave because he was the one who worked and supported the household. He said no, she should stay with their two children. In the end, it was the mother who remained in the United States.

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]]>Ashlee Rezin<![CDATA[Sick migrants detained at Krome denounce appalling medical care: ‘This is a concentration camp’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-16/sick-migrants-detained-at-krome-denounce-appalling-medical-care-this-is-a-concentration-camp.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-16/sick-migrants-detained-at-krome-denounce-appalling-medical-care-this-is-a-concentration-camp.htmlTue, 16 Dec 2025 13:02:56 +0000Module three on the first floor of the Krome detention center resembles an emergency room. An elderly man in a wheelchair had to urinate beside his bed in the early morning hours because there was no one to help him get to the bathroom. As soon as dawn broke, he apologized to the other detainees. A man undergoing dialysis for his chronic kidney condition was heard shouting that he wanted to hang himself. Another one who has lung cancer had to be taken to the emergency room. People are walking around with congestion, colds and the flu. Ariel Barrero, a 56-year-old Cuban who has been in there for almost six months, is heartbroken from so much anguish.

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]]><![CDATA[‘We are dying’: Cuba sinks into a health crisis amid medicine shortages and misdiagnosis]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-14/we-are-dying-cuba-sinks-into-a-health-crisis-amid-medicine-shortages-and-misdiagnosis.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-14/we-are-dying-cuba-sinks-into-a-health-crisis-amid-medicine-shortages-and-misdiagnosis.htmlSun, 14 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000Mercedes Interian is unable to hold a glass of water. If she tried, it would fall to the floor. The fever and vomiting are over, the diarrhea and headaches gone. Now that she is out of danger, what Mercedes fears most is that she will be forever stooped. Once a strong 57-year-old woman, these days she cannot take a step without leaning on a broomstick. “We are a hunchbacked people, scratching around for something to eat,” she says, her voice choking due to breathing difficulties as she lies on the sofa of her house in El Cerro, in Havana. “Nobody is okay here, this thing numbs your fingers, ankles, knees... We are an army of zombies.”

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]]>Ernesto Mastrascusa<![CDATA[United States trains to face off with ICE: ‘We’ve gone from fear to action’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-13/united-states-trains-to-face-off-with-ice-weve-gone-from-fear-to-action.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-13/united-states-trains-to-face-off-with-ice-weve-gone-from-fear-to-action.htmlSat, 13 Dec 2025 04:30:00 +0000Lily Rodríguez approaches a woman selling elotes outside a subway station in Queens. She buys one, but what she’s truly looking for is to earn the vendor’s trust, and find a way to offer her a whistle. Rodríguez was accompanied by other volunteers who were similarly engaged in passing out whistles to every passer-by, distributing more than 200 of the instruments meant to make noise on the New York City streets. The United States is a country learning how to protect itself against the masked agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to intimidate them through noisemakers, cameras, and confrontations with neighbors.

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]]>Carlos Barria<![CDATA[Trump’s new restrictions leave no migrant safe: ‘Being a legal resident in the US is being a second-class citizen’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-11/trumps-new-restrictions-leave-no-migrant-safe-being-a-legal-resident-in-the-us-is-being-a-second-class-citizen.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-11/trumps-new-restrictions-leave-no-migrant-safe-being-a-legal-resident-in-the-us-is-being-a-second-class-citizen.htmlThu, 11 Dec 2025 10:44:25 +0000An unexpected notification arrived from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). “We hereby inform you that, due to unforeseen circumstances, we have had to cancel the interview scheduled for Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 9:50 a.m.” Zoe, a Cuban woman who has been a permanent resident in New York for five years, was finalizing the details of the interview, reviewing the names of U.S. congressmembers and historical leaders, and re-reading the duties and rights that anyone aspiring to become a U.S. citizen should know. “I was happy because everything was going smoothly, I was studying Lincoln, Washington and every member of Congress,” she says. Then, through an email, she was informed that the path to her naturalization has been indefinitely postponed. That status is almost the only guarantee — for the moment — in a country determined to expel its immigrants.

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]]>Damian Dovarganes<![CDATA[Cuba sentences former deputy PM Alejandro Gil to life in prison for espionage and treason]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-09/cuba-sentences-former-deputy-pm-alejandro-gil-to-life-in-prison-for-espionage-and-treason.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-09/cuba-sentences-former-deputy-pm-alejandro-gil-to-life-in-prison-for-espionage-and-treason.htmlTue, 09 Dec 2025 10:39:02 +0000Cuba’s former deputy prime minister and ex-economy minister Alejandro Gil Fernández, who just two years ago was considered the right-hand man of President Miguel Díaz-Canel, has been sentenced in two separate trials to life imprisonment and 20 years in prison for a dozen crimes considered “treason.” Gil’s sentences — which the Cuban people had been eagerly awaiting — were announced on Monday by the Cuban Supreme People’s Court (TSP).

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]]><![CDATA[Cuba blames online news site ‘elTOQUE’ for the country’s economic chaos ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-02/cuba-blames-online-news-site-eltoque-for-the-countrys-economic-chaos.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-02/cuba-blames-online-news-site-eltoque-for-the-countrys-economic-chaos.htmlTue, 02 Dec 2025 12:59:58 +0000Four years ago, Cuban journalist José Jasán Nieves, editor of the online news site elTOQUE, came to Abraham Calás, its director of innovation and development, with a proposal: why don’t we publish information on the Cuban foreign exchange black market? It was at that time, during the economic restructuring imposed by the so-called Tarea Ordenamiento that sought monetary unification in Cuba, that people began to trade online with the CUP (Cuban Peso) and the MLC (Freely Convertible Currency), without anything or anyone regulating the purchase and sale. Hence the creation of the Representative Rate of the Informal Market (TRMI), a currency tracking service that tells Cubans what the value of the peso is against the dollar, the euro and the MLC (Freely Convertible Currency) – a tool the government now considers its enemy.

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]]><![CDATA[Tension in the Caribbean reverberates in Havana: ‘Venezuela is crucial for the Cuban political elites’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-27/tension-in-the-caribbean-reverberates-in-havana-venezuela-is-crucial-for-the-cuban-political-elites.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-27/tension-in-the-caribbean-reverberates-in-havana-venezuela-is-crucial-for-the-cuban-political-elites.htmlThu, 27 Nov 2025 09:39:25 +0000When Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced the U.S. State Department and its secretary, the “corrupt and compulsive liar” Marco Rubio, on X a few days ago, the Cuban-American official didn’t waste much time crafting a response. Rubio seized upon the message in which the official condemned “the false pretexts” used to justify a military invasion of Venezuela, and shared it with what he deemed the most fitting gift for his reply: a clown emoji, thus labeling Cuban diplomacy a farce. To the stones thrown from Washington and Havana was added one from Congressman Carlos A. Giménez, with a much more direct warning, at a time of escalating military activity in the Caribbean. “Bruno, be careful, the ship could set sail and come for all of you narco-terrorist henchmen of the murderous dictatorship in Cuba,” he warned.

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]]>@AFSOUTH<![CDATA[Cuba is the country with the most convictions for arbitrary detention in the world, according to the UN]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-21/cuba-is-the-country-with-the-most-convictions-for-arbitrary-detention-in-the-world-according-to-the-un.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-21/cuba-is-the-country-with-the-most-convictions-for-arbitrary-detention-in-the-world-according-to-the-un.htmlFri, 21 Nov 2025 07:54:21 +0000The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) concluded that 49 participants in the unprecedented protests that took place in Cuba on July 11, 2021 — which automatically made them political prisoners — suffered arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, unfair trials and convictions, torture, isolation, and discrimination on political and religious grounds.

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]]>Ramon Espinosa<![CDATA[The Cubans who voted for Mamdani: ‘The word ‘socialism’ is no longer so scary’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-17/the-cubans-who-voted-for-mamdani-the-word-socialism-is-no-longer-so-scary.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-17/the-cubans-who-voted-for-mamdani-the-word-socialism-is-no-longer-so-scary.htmlMon, 17 Nov 2025 16:57:59 +0000During the last days of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, Carlos Calzadilla-Palacio, a 28-year-old Cuban-American, said that he did not expect New York’s youngest mayoral candidate to force them to watch Soviet cartoons; nor would he lock up all his political opponents, as the Havana regime does with dissidents. Calzadilla-Palacio tried to explain that, within a community wary of the words “socialism” and “communism,” there exists a significant cohort that is not afraid of the proposals of a candidate demonized for being young, Muslim, and socialist.

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]]>Andrew Lichtenstein<![CDATA[Trumpist, Cuban and 27 years old: Bryan Calvo, the mayor-elect who promises to bring change to Hialeah ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-16/trumpist-cuban-and-27-years-old-bryan-calvo-the-mayor-elect-who-promises-to-bring-change-to-hialeah.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-16/trumpist-cuban-and-27-years-old-bryan-calvo-the-mayor-elect-who-promises-to-bring-change-to-hialeah.htmlSun, 16 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000When the custodian of the John F. Kennedy Library in the city of Hialeah sees a tall young man with curly hair and an extremely earnest look on his face — almost as though trying not to look like a child — she looks at him and asks: “Bryan Calvo?” The young man extends his hand. There are still posters of him in the mythical Palacio de los Jugos on 49th Street, and in the gardens of low-ceilinged houses and doorways, announcing a “real change for Hialeah,” the second most populous city in Miami-Dade County and the most Hispanic municipality in the United States. On January 12, Calvo will become the mayor of this city. He will take office at just 27 years of age.

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]]>Klaus Galiano<![CDATA[26 Federal Plaza: Inside New York’s immigration hell]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-15/26-federal-plaza-inside-new-yorks-immigration-hell.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-15/26-federal-plaza-inside-new-yorks-immigration-hell.htmlSat, 15 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000The woman’s cries echo down the hallway, shattering the usual silence of a courtroom. Her four-year-old daughter joins in, beginning to cry in her father’s arms as the family is surrounded by half a dozen masked agents. The only other sounds are the whispers of volunteers, who are quickly trying to identify the family about to be detained, and the cameras of journalists witnessing the scene. It’s impossible to hear what the immigration officials are saying to the Venezuelan couple, as they are cornered. In a matter of seconds, the family is escorted toward a staircase and, for hours, will remain “missing” somewhere in 26 Federal Plaza in New York City: Donald Trump’s immigration hell.

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]]>KLAUS GALIANO<![CDATA[Greisa Martínez Rosas, executive director of United We Dream: ‘This isn’t just about undocumented migrants, but whether we’re going to be able to maintain democracy’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-06/greisa-martinez-rosas-executive-director-of-united-we-dream-this-isnt-just-about-undocumented-migrants-but-whether-were-going-to-be-able-to-maintain-democracy.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-06/greisa-martinez-rosas-executive-director-of-united-we-dream-this-isnt-just-about-undocumented-migrants-but-whether-were-going-to-be-able-to-maintain-democracy.htmlThu, 06 Nov 2025 15:57:00 +0000Greisa Martínez Rosas, the executive director of United We Dream — the largest network of young migrants in the United States — witnessed a group of students, as she was leaving school, place a garbage bag over a friend’s head. “They spun him around and around and yelled, ‘Go back to Mexico.’”

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]]><![CDATA[Cubans deported by Trump to Mexico face an uncertain fate with no guarantees]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-02/cubans-deported-by-trump-to-mexico-face-an-uncertain-fate-with-no-guarantees.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-02/cubans-deported-by-trump-to-mexico-face-an-uncertain-fate-with-no-guarantees.htmlSun, 02 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000Laudel Camacho Ricardo had been sleeping on the streets of Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, for three days. That’s when he decided to sell his gold chain and a watch for $20 (just over 350 Mexican pesos). He would never have pawned his possessions for such a low price, if not for the hunger that gripped his stomach.

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]]>Felix Marquez<![CDATA[He hijacked a plane in Cuba, made it to Florida and was deported to Mexico: The life in the shadows of Adermis Wilson González ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-18/he-hijacked-a-plane-in-cuba-made-it-to-florida-and-was-deported-to-mexico-the-life-in-the-shadows-of-adermis-wilson-gonzalez.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-18/he-hijacked-a-plane-in-cuba-made-it-to-florida-and-was-deported-to-mexico-the-life-in-the-shadows-of-adermis-wilson-gonzalez.htmlSat, 18 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000You can’t say Adermis Wilson González doesn’t know fear. Nor that he scares easily. On March 31, 2003 he knocked on the door to the cockpit of a Russian Antonov-24 plane on which he was traveling from Cuba’s Isla de Juventud to Havana with his wife and son. He showed the pilot two grenades and asked, “Do you know what these are?” The pilot replied, “Grenades?” Wilson didn’t beat around the bush: “It’s a fragmentation grenade. If the plane lands in Havana, the only thing touching down will be ashes.” The pilot looked at him intently and replied, “What do you want?” This time, Wilson was even more direct: “That this plane not stop until it gets to Florida.”

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]]>PAOLA CHIOMANTE <![CDATA[Another crisis is driving Cubans to despair: More than three million suffer from water shortages on the island]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-18/another-crisis-is-driving-cubans-to-despair-more-than-three-million-suffer-from-water-shortages-on-the-island.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-18/another-crisis-is-driving-cubans-to-despair-more-than-three-million-suffer-from-water-shortages-on-the-island.htmlSat, 18 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000On the afternoon of September 30, the sun was as strong as it had been on previous days. The heat was pretty much the same as always, while the sea remained blue and subdued. And the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Platform, a plaza that hosts public events, was scruffy and almost empty… certainly not like those days in the early 2000s, when Cubans gathered there to shout patriotic slogans. Their chants would bounce off the windows of what was then the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.

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]]>MARCEL VILLA<![CDATA[Dengue, Oropouche fever, chikungunya: an epidemiological crisis has Cuba on edge]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-16/dengue-oropouche-fever-chikungunya-an-epidemiological-crisis-has-cuba-on-edge.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-16/dengue-oropouche-fever-chikungunya-an-epidemiological-crisis-has-cuba-on-edge.htmlThu, 16 Oct 2025 09:59:45 +0000By the end of the summer months, people in Cuba, especially in the western end of the island, were wondering what “rare” disease had them bedridden, with body aches and swelling, fevers as high as 40ºC, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, and even skin blemishes. In Matanzas, the epicenter of the disaster, entire families reported infections, which then spread to every neighborhood, then to the entire province, almost encompassing the entire country. No one knew exactly what it was, and there were barely any reagents in the municipal laboratories that, at the beginning of the outbreak, could confirm what is known today: Cuba is experiencing a combined epidemiological crisis, with the simultaneous presence of dengue, Oropouche fever and chikungunya, which until now the authorities had tried to ignore.

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]]>Desmond Boylan<![CDATA[From Alligator Alcatraz to Cancún, a Cuban deportee’s long journey to Mexico: ‘I’m like a ghost’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-06/from-alligator-alcatraz-to-cancun-a-cuban-deportees-long-journey-to-mexico-im-like-a-ghost.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-06/from-alligator-alcatraz-to-cancun-a-cuban-deportees-long-journey-to-mexico-im-like-a-ghost.htmlMon, 06 Oct 2025 12:00:55 +0000The morning Pedro Lorenzo Concepción arrived in Cancún turned out to be a hot morning, hotter than any he’d experienced in Miami, even hotter than any he remembered from his years in Cuba. He disembarked a bus at the ADO terminal, but unlike the rest of the passengers he was not an enthusiastic vacationer in the tropics. Pedro was here to stay. He had been deported from the United States to Mexico and was completely disoriented. Using the phone he’d bought at a gas station, he called his wife in Florida. His voice cracked.

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]]>PAOLA CHIOMANTE <![CDATA[Florida’s Cubans are now divided on Trump: ‘He acts like Fidel’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-14/floridas-cubans-are-now-divided-on-trump-he-acts-like-fidel.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-14/floridas-cubans-are-now-divided-on-trump-he-acts-like-fidel.htmlSun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency in charge of processing immigration applications, goes around asking coworkers and neighbors whether someone is eligible for U.S. citizenship or not, in the style of the Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR). The American government attacks the LGBTQ+ community… just like the Cuban government did in the 1960s. Donald Trump has flirted with staying longer in the White House, in the same way in which Fidel Castro — having tasted so much power during his lifetime — decided to lead Cuba for nearly half a century. The former has already devoted efforts toward attacking opposing ideologies and freedom of expression, concepts that the latter completely nullified. One man worships what the other turned into a religion: exaltation, maximum control, a sea of fanatics, as well as the certainty that there’s no reason for the “dictator” label.

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]]>Sean Drakes<![CDATA[In Cuba, the Revolution has broken its promises: Hunger and homelessness are on the rise ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-28/in-cuba-the-revolution-has-broken-its-promises-hunger-and-homelessness-are-on-the-rise.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-28/in-cuba-the-revolution-has-broken-its-promises-hunger-and-homelessness-are-on-the-rise.htmlSun, 28 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000One day, in early-August, just before 5 p.m., Marta Pérez was seen begging for money. She was doing so under the relentless sun that was beating down on San Rafael Boulevard. With her finely-wrinkled skin, striped dress, short hair and very long nails, she was like an apparition on the streets of Havana.

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]]>Marcel Villa<![CDATA[Assata Shakur, one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives for over 50 years, dies in Cuba]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-26/assata-shakur-one-of-the-fbis-most-wanted-fugitives-for-over-50-years-dies-in-cuba.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-26/assata-shakur-one-of-the-fbis-most-wanted-fugitives-for-over-50-years-dies-in-cuba.htmlFri, 26 Sep 2025 17:55:32 +0000Joanne Deborah Byron, aka Assata Shakur, died on Thursday in Cuba, the country that welcomed her as a refugee for decades after she staged a spectacular escape from the Hunterdon County maximum security prison after being accused 52 years ago of the murder of a New Jersey State Police officer. The island’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a brief press release this Friday reporting that the U.S. citizen had died at the age of 78 “as a result of health conditions and her advanced age.”

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]]>Frank Hurley<![CDATA[Acetaminophen shortage and autism: Cuban reality contradicts Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-25/acetaminophen-shortage-and-autism-cuban-reality-contradicts-trump.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-25/acetaminophen-shortage-and-autism-cuban-reality-contradicts-trump.htmlThu, 25 Sep 2025 10:12:35 +0000Like a prophet of the pharmaceutical industry, Donald Trump took the microphone at the White House this Monday and sent a message to all pregnant women in his country: “Don’t take Tylenol,” he said, referring to the main brand name used in the United States for acetaminophen, better known as paracetamol in some countries and marketed under various brands. He even asked them to “tough it out” and accept the fever and pain. Although this supposed link between acetaminophen and autism is not supported by science and medical organizations immediately came out to deny it, the president dug out evidence perhaps never before amassed by researchers: in countries like Cuba, where “they don’t have money” and therefore consume much less Tylenol, people barely deal with autism, the condition that affects one in every 31 children in the United States.

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]]>Jae C. Hong<![CDATA[The final days of a self-deportation: Deivy Alemán returns to Cuba as his daughter awaits open-heart surgery]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-17/the-final-days-of-a-self-deportation-deivy-aleman-returns-to-cuba-as-his-daughter-awaits-open-heart-surgery.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-17/the-final-days-of-a-self-deportation-deivy-aleman-returns-to-cuba-as-his-daughter-awaits-open-heart-surgery.htmlWed, 17 Sep 2025 15:05:21 +0000If you ask Deivy Alemán — now that he’s about to leave — what the most precious thing he wants to carry in the 23-kilo black suitcase that he’s having so much trouble packing is, he’ll answer without thinking, or rather, like someone who has been thinking about it for a long time: “My daughter!”

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]]>Eva Marie UZCATEGUI<![CDATA[Taking to the streets in Cuba, seeking asylum in the US, and ending up in the hands of ICE: The Sánchez brothers’ limbo]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-12/taking-to-the-streets-in-cuba-seeking-asylum-in-the-us-and-ending-up-in-the-hands-of-ice-the-sanchez-brothers-limbo.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-12/taking-to-the-streets-in-cuba-seeking-asylum-in-the-us-and-ending-up-in-the-hands-of-ice-the-sanchez-brothers-limbo.htmlFri, 12 Sep 2025 12:02:28 +0000Even though her children aren’t in the San Miguel del Padrón home in Havana where they grew up, but hundreds of miles away in the Eloy detention center in Arizona, Zaida Martínez prefers them to be in the United States rather than in the hands of the Cuban government. “For a mother, the best thing is always to have her children by her side,” says the 57-year-old. “But I’m terribly afraid they’ll be returned to Cuba. I say this with great pain in my heart, but I hope they stay there before they’re taken here as prisoners.”

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]]><![CDATA[New nationwide blackout leaves Cuba in the dark amid a growing public outcry: ‘How much longer?’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-11/new-nationwide-blackout-leaves-cuba-in-the-dark-amid-a-growing-public-outcry-how-much-longer.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-11/new-nationwide-blackout-leaves-cuba-in-the-dark-amid-a-growing-public-outcry-how-much-longer.htmlThu, 11 Sep 2025 09:35:27 +0000It was only a matter of time before Cuba would be completely in the dark. Like a dying man, the country began shutting down over the weekend: first, the eastern provinces of Las Tunas, Granma, Holguín, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantánamo were plunged into blackouts. Power outages were also reported in Matanzas and Havana. And on Wednesday, news emerged about the collapse of the national energy system. This isn’t even the first time, but the fifth one since the massive blackout of October 18, 2024, when the island became a blind spot in the Caribbean Sea for several days.

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]]>Norlys Perez<![CDATA[The bullets that killed Cuban migrant Feglys Campos Arriba still echo in Denison]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-07/the-bullets-that-killed-cuban-migrant-feglys-campos-arriba-still-echo-in-denison.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-07/the-bullets-that-killed-cuban-migrant-feglys-campos-arriba-still-echo-in-denison.htmlSun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000Spread the word through the town: Mr. Michael P. Jones, owner of the Pauley Jones funeral home — modest yet refined — is looking for an artist among the nearly 8,000 residents of Denison, in western Iowa, to draw a chair and a Cuban flag on the urn he now carries, on which the following inscription will be engraved: “Feglys Campos Arriba (10/21/88–8/15/25). Forever in our hearts.”

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]]><![CDATA[Jessica Ruiz’s life since her husband was detained by ICE: The weight of business, home, and three children]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-04/jessica-ruizs-life-since-her-husband-was-detained-by-ice-the-weight-of-business-home-and-three-children.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-04/jessica-ruizs-life-since-her-husband-was-detained-by-ice-the-weight-of-business-home-and-three-children.htmlThu, 04 Sep 2025 11:09:22 +0000The client’s confession came days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested her husband. “I’m going to tell you the truth,” the client said. “No one wants to give you trucks because everyone knows Tony is in custody, and they’re afraid you’ll keep the money from what we do and not pay us.” Things have changed lately: now she, Jessica Ruiz, a 35-year-old woman, is at the helm of the family trucking business, All Coast Express, responsible for shipping all the vegetables from California to Miami that locals buy at Publix markets, or that vacationers eat on cruise ships departing from South Florida, or that are served in the county’s many schools.

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]]><![CDATA[The Dreamer Xóchitl Santiago in Trump’s immigration court]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-27/the-dreamer-xochitl-santiago-in-trumps-immigration-court.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-27/the-dreamer-xochitl-santiago-in-trumps-immigration-court.htmlWed, 27 Aug 2025 12:12:33 +0000The meeting is at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, outside the El Paso Service Processing Center. Family, friends and aid groups have called the press, activists, community leaders, and anyone else who wants to join in. The idea is for the place to be filled with banners depicting a young Indigenous woman, sometimes wearing a Texan hat, sometimes surrounded by flowers, sometimes harvesting the land, sometimes carrying a basket in the middle of a furrow in some field in South Florida. The hope is also for the final release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a Mexican Zapotec woman, the daughter of farmers, the beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Dreamer who should never have been detained in early August as she was about to board a domestic flight to Houston.

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]]><![CDATA[Forever seen as criminals: Immigrants who served their time but still face deportation under Trump]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-11/forever-seen-as-criminals-immigrants-who-served-their-time-but-still-face-deportation-under-trump.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-11/forever-seen-as-criminals-immigrants-who-served-their-time-but-still-face-deportation-under-trump.htmlMon, 11 Aug 2025 07:59:38 +0000As the United States is led by the first convicted president, Yelenis Pérez has once again been reminded of the crime for which she was convicted 28 years ago. She thought she had long since paid her debt to justice, but to immigration agents, Yelenis is, forever, a criminal. Donald Trump’s government has given her until October to leave the United States as a deportee, back to the country she left three decades ago. “I thought that after so much time nothing was going to happen to me,” she says.

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]]><![CDATA[DHS denies hunger strike at Alligator Alcatraz despite Cuban detainee’s two-week protest]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-05/dhs-denies-hunger-strike-at-alligator-alcatraz-despite-cuban-detainees-two-week-protest.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-05/dhs-denies-hunger-strike-at-alligator-alcatraz-despite-cuban-detainees-two-week-protest.htmlTue, 05 Aug 2025 11:23:52 +0000The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday denied the existence of a hunger strike at the Alligator Alcatraz detention center, despite the fact that Cuban detainee Pedro Lorenzo Concepción has gone 14 days without food in protest over the uncertainty he faces at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The immigrant himself confirmed to EL PAÍS in a phone call from Florida that he is “too weak” but is continuing his hunger strike. “I’m still at it today, I’m still without food,” he stated. “Truth will take you wherever you want to go, I refuse any help. Check the security cameras if you want.”

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]]>AP / CORTESÍA<![CDATA[New attack on the Dreamers: Trump administration encourages DACA recipients to ‘self-deport’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-04/new-attack-on-dreamers-trump-administration-encourages-daca-recipients-to-self-deport.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-04/new-attack-on-dreamers-trump-administration-encourages-daca-recipients-to-self-deport.htmlMon, 04 Aug 2025 17:24:55 +0000The day Mariana returned to Mexico for the first time in 2022 after 26 years, she sat down with her father and explained why it was so hard for her to recognize herself in the place where she was born — why she was no longer the same person who had been taken to the United States at age seven.

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]]>Christopher Dilts<![CDATA[The Cuban migrant on hunger strike at Alligator Alcatraz: ‘It’s up to them to decide whether I live or die’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-31/the-cuban-migrant-on-hunger-strike-at-alligator-alcatraz-its-up-to-them-to-decide-whether-i-live-or-die.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-31/the-cuban-migrant-on-hunger-strike-at-alligator-alcatraz-its-up-to-them-to-decide-whether-i-live-or-die.htmlThu, 31 Jul 2025 11:14:58 +0000Pedro Lorenzo Concepción’s voice seems to be sinking, shipwrecked among the vast wetlands populated by mosquitoes, pythons and alligators that inhabit the Everglades. He picks up the phone from Alligator Alcatraz itself, the feared migrant detention center that the Republicans built in Florida’s backyard. Asked how he’s feeling, he answers that he is obviously not well; today marks nine days of his hunger strike.

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]]><![CDATA[Cuban political prisoner Duannis León Taboada has been on hunger strike for over 10 days]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-29/cuban-political-prisoner-duannis-leon-taboada-has-been-on-hunger-strike-for-over-10-days.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-29/cuban-political-prisoner-duannis-leon-taboada-has-been-on-hunger-strike-for-over-10-days.htmlTue, 29 Jul 2025 16:51:50 +0000Duannis León Taboada has always been, as they say, a good eater. He empties his plate, never complaining about whatever is put on the table. When he was a baby, his mother, Yenisey Taboada, breastfed him for hours, but he almost always went hungry. At eight months old, his eyes lit up when he tasted a mango for the first time. At one year old, he was already eating chunks of sweet potato. Of all things, he always preferred milk. When his mother asked him what he wanted her to bring him on visiting days in jail, the political prisoner always replied milk; he could do without the rest. Hence Yenisey’s anguish, as she has always enjoyed the hearty eating of her “child,” who fed him and watched him grow, until the Cuban government imprisoned him. Now, without knowing exactly how Duannis is doing after a hunger strike of more than 10 days, she too can’t eat anything, surviving on tea and natural juices: “I haven’t been able to eat anything; I can’t get a bite down,” she says. “It’s impossible for a mother to eat knowing her child isn’t eating, and the danger that represents.”

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]]><![CDATA[Venezuelan musician Arturo Suárez-Trejo, released from Bukele’s mega-prison: ‘They told us the world had forgotten about us’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-28/venezuelan-musician-arturo-suarez-trejo-released-from-bukeles-mega-prison-they-told-us-the-world-had-forgotten-about-us.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-28/venezuelan-musician-arturo-suarez-trejo-released-from-bukeles-mega-prison-they-told-us-the-world-had-forgotten-about-us.htmlMon, 28 Jul 2025 13:56:35 +0000On Friday, July 18, Pastor Vladimir López — a short, forty-something Salvadoran inmate about whom not much else is known, other than that he is serving an 85-year sentence — stood before the 252 Venezuelans detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) in El Salvador and told them: “I couldn’t be here on the day of your arrival, but I can joyfully be here on the day of your departure.” They were returning home. Arturo Suárez-Trejo burst into tears, and so did the pastor. He was the one who had read the Bible to them countless times, blessed them on countless occasions, helped them ease the tedium of a cell, and made them believe that there was freedom within every man. He saved Arturo from several beatings he would otherwise have been subjected to for the crime of singing in one of the most feared prisons in the world.

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]]>Cristian Hernandez<![CDATA[‘I’m going to ask for my deportation, I can’t stand being here one more day’: The life of a group of migrants in a Texas detention center cell]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-21/im-going-to-ask-for-my-deportation-i-cant-stand-being-here-one-more-day-the-life-of-a-group-of-migrants-in-a-texas-detention-center-cell.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-21/im-going-to-ask-for-my-deportation-i-cant-stand-being-here-one-more-day-the-life-of-a-group-of-migrants-in-a-texas-detention-center-cell.htmlMon, 21 Jul 2025 15:07:44 +0000Juan Manuel Fernández-Ramos is convinced that, after 72 hours, everything that a prisoner says is a lie. An inmate told him he had five motorcycles in Mexico, and he replied that he had 10 in Cuba. Another prisoner told him he had thousands of dollars in savings for when he got out, and he retorted that he himself was hoarding millions. “We all know it’s a lie, but what are we going to talk about after five months here together?” Of his eight fellow inmates in cell A1, he is the one who has spent the longest time at the IAH Polk Adult Detention Facility in Livingston, Texas, where Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown has sent many foreigners now awaiting possible deportation. There are days when Alejandro García, who sleeps on the next bed, turns to ask him what he thinks of immigration officers, if he thinks there’s a chance for them. “But I already told him not to ask me any more questions. Every time he does, I tell him a hundred lies. I’m not immigration, and I’m not ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement].”

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]]><![CDATA[Sandro Castro: Fidel’s grandson is an influencer]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-20/sandro-castro-fidels-grandson-is-an-influencer.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-20/sandro-castro-fidels-grandson-is-an-influencer.htmlSun, 20 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000Fidel Castro has a grandson who’s an influencer. Not one with military prowess, but one who makes social media reels. Not dressed in olive green, but in Real Madrid soccer jerseys. The “new man” of the Cuban Revolution is now a content creator, with nearly 115,000 followers on Instagram, who posts challenges, listens to reparto music, and loves cats and Cristal beer.

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]]>sandro_castrox<![CDATA[How the Cuban government violated Vatican agreement on political prisoners]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-17/how-the-cuban-government-violated-vatican-agreement-on-political-prisoners.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-17/how-the-cuban-government-violated-vatican-agreement-on-political-prisoners.htmlThu, 17 Jul 2025 13:14:37 +0000Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, arrived in Havana in early June with a message: “The Holy See cannot fail to promote both rights and freedoms and their foundation in the transcendent dimension of humankind.” It was the 90th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Vatican, and the prelate arrived as the first envoy since the appointment of Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. A few days after the visit, political opponent Donaida Pérez entered the Guajamal women’s prison in Santa Clara, from which she had been released in January as part of the group of 553 people freed following negotiations between the Cuban government and the Catholic Church.

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]]>Jorge Luis Baños<![CDATA[Cuba’s labor minister resigns after stating that there are no beggars on the island]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-16/cubas-labor-minister-resigns-after-stating-that-there-are-no-beggars-on-the-island.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-16/cubas-labor-minister-resigns-after-stating-that-there-are-no-beggars-on-the-island.htmlWed, 16 Jul 2025 08:09:20 +0000It was, at least indirectly, one of the greatest acts of civic expression by Cubans in the last 60 years. It took just 48 hours for the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, to resign after claiming that there are no beggars in Cuba — only people “pretending to be beggars.” The country’s streets, filled with people rummaging through garbage bins, elderly individuals sleeping in doorways, and others holding out their hands to ask for money, directly contradict the minister’s words and challenge the image of the Cuban Revolution’s social project.

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]]>oit méxico y cuba<![CDATA[Fear at the day labor spot: The migrant workers struggling to find jobs outside a Home Depot]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-12/fear-at-the-day-labor-spot-the-migrant-workers-struggling-to-find-jobs-outside-a-home-depot.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-12/fear-at-the-day-labor-spot-the-migrant-workers-struggling-to-find-jobs-outside-a-home-depot.htmlSat, 12 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000Juan Carlos doesn’t even realize it, but the message on his orange T-shirt reads “We built this city” — a fitting tribute to people like him who have helped construct the 6,300 miles of streets and highways, the 300-plus skyscrapers, nearly 800 bridges and tunnels, and the million buildings that make up New York City.

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]]>klaus galiano<![CDATA[Trump announces new measures to stifle Cuba: More restrictions on tourism and obstacles to foreign investment ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-02/trump-announces-new-measures-to-stifle-cuba-more-restrictions-on-tourism-and-obstacles-to-foreign-investment.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-02/trump-announces-new-measures-to-stifle-cuba-more-restrictions-on-tourism-and-obstacles-to-foreign-investment.htmlWed, 02 Jul 2025 10:45:25 +0000While Cuba is not exactly a foreign policy front that keeps anyone in Washington awake at night — since it is more focused on making the United States great again — the White House recalled this week a phrase Donald Trump said during his electoral campaign that strengthened the sympathies of his loyal Cuban-American voters: “As president, I will again stand with the people of Cuba in their long quest for justice, liberty and freedom.”

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]]>Evelyn Hockstein<![CDATA[New York court orders Trump administration to return another wrongfully deported migrant]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-26/new-york-court-orders-trump-administration-to-return-another-wrongfully-deported-migrant.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-26/new-york-court-orders-trump-administration-to-return-another-wrongfully-deported-migrant.htmlThu, 26 Jun 2025 10:30:52 +0000That’s four now. A New York court has ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of a fourth wrongfully deported immigrant. The Salvadoran national Jordin Melgar-Salmerón, 31, was deported to his home country in May just minutes after the New York federal appeals court ruled that he should remain in the United States.

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]]>Dylan Martinez<![CDATA[Cuban mothers accused of child trafficking for bringing their children to the US: ‘It’s punishment for being migrants’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-17/cuban-mothers-accused-of-child-trafficking-for-bringing-their-children-to-the-us-its-punishment-for-being-migrants.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-17/cuban-mothers-accused-of-child-trafficking-for-bringing-their-children-to-the-us-its-punishment-for-being-migrants.htmlTue, 17 Jun 2025 09:32:25 +0000Still unable to understand why, Betsy Segura was accused of smuggling her nine-year-old daughter into the United States. So was Irianna Gilimas, the mother of a nine-year-old son. One day, each one of them closed the door to their house in Cuba, didn’t look back, and took the long and well-trodden path of the migrant. They say they wanted to reach the United States, get a job, send their children to school, and help their families back home. Nothing that others haven’t done before them. But their story has turned out different. According to the U.S. government, they are not just mothers, but the traffickers of their own children.

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]]><![CDATA[Rejection of Donald Trump sweeps across the United States: “We say no to fascism!”]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-15/rejection-of-donald-trump-sweeps-across-the-united-states-we-say-no-to-fascism.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-15/rejection-of-donald-trump-sweeps-across-the-united-states-we-say-no-to-fascism.htmlSun, 15 Jun 2025 00:49:52 +0000As if waking up from a bad dream that had lasted all week, the city of Los Angeles woke up under cloudy skies at 9.30 am, when the big protest against President Donald Trump and his conservative—or fascist, as many of the marchers’ signs read—policies, began. This Saturday was the day of the big “No Kings” protests, which brought together citizens in more than a thousand cities across the country. People of all ages, faiths (there were priests in clerical collars and women in hijabs), physical conditions, races, and nationalities took to the streets of several cities and towns to raise their voices in defense of migrants and against the ultra-conservative policies of the Republican president, who turned 79 on Saturday and celebrated with a grand military parade in the capital, Washington, D.C.

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]]>Rachel Wisniewski<![CDATA[Supremacist propaganda at the White House: ‘Help your country, report foreign invaders’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-12/supremacist-propaganda-at-the-white-house-help-your-country-report-foreign-invaders.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-12/supremacist-propaganda-at-the-white-house-help-your-country-report-foreign-invaders.htmlThu, 12 Jun 2025 09:25:20 +0000At arguably the most tense moment for the Trump administration since January 20—with direct clashes between citizens and police forces over the government’s strict anti-immigration policies—the White House has echoed a supremacist message that its followers have been spreading on social media, in public places, and even on an online sales site for $17.95. It’s a poster depicting Uncle Sam asking Americans for help in reporting the whereabouts of every undocumented immigrant in the United States.

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]]><![CDATA[No trips or family reunions: Trump’s latest betrayal of Cubans and Venezuelans]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-10/no-trips-or-family-reunions-trumps-latest-betrayal-of-cubans-and-venezuelans.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-10/no-trips-or-family-reunions-trumps-latest-betrayal-of-cubans-and-venezuelans.htmlTue, 10 Jun 2025 08:15:21 +0000If Marcos can’t leave in the coming days — that is, pack his suitcase, say goodbye to his family, catch a plane at Havana airport, and land in the United States in a matter of minutes — it will be because he obeyed the law. He has waited nine long years to be reunited with his father. He refused to pay a coyote (smuggler), take any migratory route through Central America, arrive in Mexico, and cross the border as an illegal immigrant. Now, that the day of his appointment at the Havana embassy has arrived, Donald Trump has announced that Cuba is one of the 12 countries whose citizens will be restricted from traveling to the United States starting this Monday. Marcos is nervous. His family and friends can’t believe it. No one knows exactly what will happen.

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]]>Rebecca Blackwell<![CDATA[Russia recruits Cubans for the frontlines in Ukraine: ‘It’s all been a scam’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-09/russia-recruits-cubans-for-the-frontlines-in-ukraine-its-all-been-a-scam.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-09/russia-recruits-cubans-for-the-frontlines-in-ukraine-its-all-been-a-scam.htmlMon, 09 Jun 2025 10:23:19 +0000In August 2023, the names of the first Cuban soldiers serving with Russia on the front lines of the war against Ukraine became known: Andorf Antonio Velázquez García and Álex Rolando Vega Díaz, two 19-year-old recruits in uniform, their faces beardless and frightened, appeared in a video pleading for help after being hired from Cuba to supposedly carry out construction work. They said they were promised a monthly salary of over $2,000 and that they would be guaranteed a Russian passport. Without understanding how, they ended up in the combat zone. “It’s all been a scam,” they stated at the time. “We need your help to get out of here.”

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]]><![CDATA[Cuban government dollarizes the internet: ‘This measure is true digital apartheid’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-03/cuban-government-dollarizes-the-internet-this-measure-is-true-digital-apartheid.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-03/cuban-government-dollarizes-the-internet-this-measure-is-true-digital-apartheid.htmlTue, 03 Jun 2025 12:55:06 +0000First their electricity was cut off. Then, gradually, the rationed food that arrived at the neighborhood grocery stores dwindled. The value of their currency declined. Limits were placed on store purchases. And now, indirectly, internet access is being restricted. The Cuban government’s latest measure has opened up a gap between citizens who can afford the service and those who can’t. The new “tariff increase” by ETECSA, the state-owned company that holds the monopoly on communications on the island, has increased connectivity costs so much that some Cubans would have to work more than a month just to check Facebook, send WhatsApp messages, or do a search on Google. That means paying 3,360 pesos (about $9) for 3 gigabytes, when the minimum monthly wage in the country remains at 2,100 pesos (about $5). Many citizens are particularly upset. And Cubans in exile feel deeply defrauded. The government, hungry for dollars, has dealt them all one final blow.

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]]>CONTACTO vía Europa Press<![CDATA[‘The dream of studying in the United States has turned into a nightmare’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-02/the-dream-of-studying-in-the-united-states-has-turned-into-a-nightmare.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-02/the-dream-of-studying-in-the-united-states-has-turned-into-a-nightmare.htmlMon, 02 Jun 2025 10:47:39 +0000Thousands of Latin American students headed to the United States are feeling doubly victimized by Donald Trump’s attacks these days: for being university students, and for being Latinos. Of all the battles the Republican has launched in four months, the one he’s waging against universities has proven the most surprising. Economic warfare and persecution of immigrants were part of the president’s campaign promises, but no one could have predicted his interest in destroying what is widely considered the best academic environment in the world.

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]]>Cristóbal Venegas<![CDATA[The anti-immigration crackdown sparks panic and anger in Florida’s Hispanic community ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-29/the-anti-immigration-crackdown-sparks-panic-and-anger-in-floridas-hispanic-community.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-29/the-anti-immigration-crackdown-sparks-panic-and-anger-in-floridas-hispanic-community.htmlThu, 29 May 2025 10:44:26 +0000He instructed his cousin to pay next month’s rent in his absence. He left a record of what to do with each of the belongings he’d accumulated over the past two years. In case he didn’t return, he parked his 2021 Chevrolet and called an Uber to the Miami Immigration Court building. At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, he had an appointment with the judge to argue his asylum case, and Felipe—the name used to protect his identity—thought for the first time that he might be deported. Since last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been on the lookout for migrants outside Miami courthouses, trying to detain as many undocumented immigrants as they can. People are afraid. In fact, they are terrified.

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]]>CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH<![CDATA[On the front lines of Harvard’s resistance to Trump: ‘The first thing authoritarians do is attack universities’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-26/on-the-front-lines-of-harvards-resistance-to-trump-the-first-thing-authoritarians-do-is-attack-universities.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-26/on-the-front-lines-of-harvards-resistance-to-trump-the-first-thing-authoritarians-do-is-attack-universities.htmlMon, 26 May 2025 10:16:28 +0000The Friday of end of semester dawned cold and overcast at Harvard. The campus looked strangely empty; the only crowd consisted of tourists taking pictures by the worn shoe of the John Harvard statue, the first benefactor of Harvard University, the oldest in the United States and the richest in the world. Many students and professors were already on vacation. Others would return the following week for graduation ceremonies.

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]]>Boston Globe<![CDATA[Assata Shakur, the ‘fugitive’ the United States has been demanding from Cuba for over half a century]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-18/assata-shakur-the-fugitive-the-united-states-has-been-demanding-from-cuba-for-over-half-a-century.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-18/assata-shakur-the-fugitive-the-united-states-has-been-demanding-from-cuba-for-over-half-a-century.htmlSun, 18 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000The Federal Bureau of Investigations describes her as follows: brown eyes, black/gray hair worn “in a variety of styles.” Height: 5 feet 7 inches. Weight between 135 and 150 pounds. Scars on her chest, abdomen, left shoulder and left knee. Sex: female. Citizenship: American. Race: Black. Name: Joanne Deborah Chesimard. Alias: Assata Shakur, former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, accused 52 years ago of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper, living in Cuba since the days of the Cold War after having been given shelter by Fidel Castro.

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]]><![CDATA[US returns two-year-old girl separated from her deported parents to Venezuela]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-15/us-returns-two-year-old-girl-separated-from-her-deported-parents-to-venezuela.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-15/us-returns-two-year-old-girl-separated-from-her-deported-parents-to-venezuela.htmlThu, 15 May 2025 09:49:07 +0000María Escalona Fernández woke up Wednesday and went out to catch the first bus from Barinas to Caracas, a nearly eight-hour journey she traveled in anticipation, almost in disbelief knowing she would be reunited with her granddaughter. Maikelys Antonella Espinosa Bernal, the two-year-old who became the latest symbol of Nicolás Maduro’s demands on Donald Trump, arrived in Venezuela in the morning. Her mother had reported her “kidnapping” the day the girl was handed over to a foster family in the United States, depriving her parents of their right to be with her.

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]]>MIRAFLORES PALACE<![CDATA[The ordeal of eight Venezuelan women deported to El Salvador and rejected by Bukele’s government]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-14/the-ordeal-of-eight-venezuelan-women-deported-to-el-salvador-and-rejected-by-bukeles-government.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-14/the-ordeal-of-eight-venezuelan-women-deported-to-el-salvador-and-rejected-by-bukeles-government.htmlWed, 14 May 2025 15:44:10 +0000On March 15, when Judge James E. Boasberg verbally ordered the U.S. government under Donald Trump to halt the deportations of Venezuelan migrants from Harlingen Airport in Texas, Franyeli Carolina Zambrano Manrique was already on the plane, dressed in blue pants, a gray pullover matching her shoes, and handcuffed at both her hands and feet, which made it uncomfortable every time she tried to take a bite of her sandwich or sip of water.

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]]><![CDATA[Juanita Goebertus (HRW): ‘Deportations to El Salvador meet the legal definition of enforced disappearance’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-06/juanita-goebertus-hrw-deportations-to-el-salvador-meet-the-legal-definition-of-enforced-disappearance.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-06/juanita-goebertus-hrw-deportations-to-el-salvador-meet-the-legal-definition-of-enforced-disappearance.htmlTue, 06 May 2025 11:58:38 +0000In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele called it a “regime of exception” three years ago. In the United States, Donald Trump calls it a “state of emergency.” The former rebelled against his own people, the latter against immigrants within the country. Both promised to rid their respective nations of suspected criminals in a declared war on gangs. In their eagerness to detain—and now also to deport—the two leaders have resorted to the same things: arresting people without warrants, creating arrest quotas for police and federal agents, using tattoos as evidence of ties to a criminal organization, and violating due process. The result in El Salvador is more than 85,000 new inmates who are part of the prison system with the highest incarceration rate in the world. In the United States, more than 66,000 migrants have been detained and some 65,000 deported, according to figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But even so, there is a big difference between one country and another, according to Juanita Goebertus, director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW): judicial independence.

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]]>SOFIA YANJARI<![CDATA[Hunt for former Castro agents: From repression in Cuba to detention in the US]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-02/hunt-for-former-castro-agents-from-repression-in-cuba-to-detention-in-the-us.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-02/hunt-for-former-castro-agents-from-repression-in-cuba-to-detention-in-the-us.htmlFri, 02 May 2025 09:23:39 +0000There was a time when Daniel Morejón García moved with authority among the residents of Las Cañas, a town southwest of Havana, Cuba that doesn’t have a cemetery, but does have an animal feed factory, a main street, a train line, a pharmacy, a park and a movie theater. Morejón, 57, is tall, powerfully built, even “handsome” according to those who know him. He was always well dressed and flaunted a pistol that made him stand out among the local residents. Some call him “arrogant,” others say he liked to boast about the power he’d been granted. “He wanted to imitate the dictator Fidel Castro, and that’s how he behaved,” says Maykel Bencomo, 43, who has known him since childhood and remembers him acting with peculiar arrogance toward the regular folks of Las Cañas. But now the roles have been reversed, and Morejón isn’t the one who intimidates, but the one who feels fear. He is no longer the one who sends anti-Castro supporters to jail in Cuba, but instead finds himself a prisoner in the United States.

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]]>Atahualpa Americe<![CDATA[Trump separates families again: Two mothers are deported to Cuba and Venezuela without their babies]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-01/trump-separates-families-again-two-mothers-are-deported-to-cuba-and-venezuela-without-their-babies.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-01/trump-separates-families-again-two-mothers-are-deported-to-cuba-and-venezuela-without-their-babies.htmlThu, 01 May 2025 08:00:06 +0000On Wednesday afternoon, Carlos Yuniel Valle held his 16-month-old daughter Kailyn in his arms and headed to the neurologist’s office at a Tampa clinic. Although he was always the one to drive on these occasions, it was the mother who normally entered the doctor’s office, held the child’s hand, calmed her down, laid her on the examination table, and helped place the multicolored wires on her head as part of a study to decipher the cause of her repeated seizures. This time around, it was the father who took her in. The little girl began screaming and crying with tremendous force, leaving Valle and the doctors exhausted. “All she was screaming was ‘Mom, Mom,’” the father recounted shortly afterward. “It broke my heart.”

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]]><![CDATA[The Venezuelans spared from Bukele’s mega-prison after Supreme Court blocks deportation]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-25/the-venezuelans-spared-from-bukeles-mega-prison-after-supreme-court-blocks-deportation.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-25/the-venezuelans-spared-from-bukeles-mega-prison-after-supreme-court-blocks-deportation.htmlFri, 25 Apr 2025 07:13:15 +0000At the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Dallas, Texas, the inmates are restless — a bundle of nerves and fears. Though they suspect what’s coming, none of them knows for sure. It’s Friday, April 18, and word is that they’ll be the next group of detainees the U.S. government will send to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) in El Salvador. But nothing is certain — no one tells them anything, no one explains. Diover José Millán León, a 24-year-old Venezuelan, grabs the phone from jail, in tears, and calls his wife in Atlanta.

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]]><![CDATA[The tortuous search for Ricardo Prada, the disappeared Venezuelan deported to El Salvador’s mega-prison]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-24/the-tortuous-search-for-ricardo-prada-the-disappeared-venezuelan-deported-to-el-salvadors-mega-prison.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-24/the-tortuous-search-for-ricardo-prada-the-disappeared-venezuelan-deported-to-el-salvadors-mega-prison.htmlThu, 24 Apr 2025 17:52:47 +0000Ricardo Prada Vásquez has been found, but he is in a place no one wants to end up. The 32-year-old Venezuelan, whom family and friends had been searching for days, is now at the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), El Salvador’s mega-prison to which the Donald Trump administration sent about 252 Venezuelan migrants accused of being criminals.

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]]>SECOM<![CDATA[Judge sets rules for Trump’s deportations: 21 days’ notice to migrants in their native language]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-23/judge-sets-rules-for-trumps-deportations-21-days-notice-to-migrants-in-their-native-language.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-23/judge-sets-rules-for-trumps-deportations-21-days-notice-to-migrants-in-their-native-language.htmlWed, 23 Apr 2025 15:58:02 +0000Charlotte Sweeney, a federal judge in Colorado, has joined the legal battle against the Donald Trump administration. From now on, the president must provide Venezuelan migrants with at least 21 days’ notice before any deportation — such as the controversial mid-March removals to El Salvador — during which time they can appeal in court.

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]]>David Zalubowski<![CDATA[Citizens, residents, and even people outside the United States are receiving self-deportation orders: ‘This is unforgivable’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-21/citizens-residents-and-even-people-outside-the-united-states-are-receiving-self-deportation-orders-this-is-unforgivable.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-21/citizens-residents-and-even-people-outside-the-united-states-are-receiving-self-deportation-orders-this-is-unforgivable.htmlMon, 21 Apr 2025 14:27:32 +0000Last weekend, immigration attorney Liudmila Armas Marcelo spent her time not just listening to — but above all, calming — many of her desperate clients who had received orders to leave the United States within seven days. Her phone rang nonstop. On the other end were people on the brink of a breakdown. One client’s blood pressure skyrocketed. Another’s son, who suffers from health issues, was severely affected. “People panicked,” Marcelo recalls.

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]]>Dario Lopez-Mills<![CDATA[The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-20/the-chain-of-favors-that-keeps-cubans-afloat-in-the-face-of-state-abandonment.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-20/the-chain-of-favors-that-keeps-cubans-afloat-in-the-face-of-state-abandonment.htmlSun, 20 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000Vicente Borrero has sunburned skin and wears a hole-ridden tuxedo, a dirty old cap and faded shorts. His eyes appear to always be looking away, always on the verge of tears.

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]]>Ramon Espinosa<![CDATA[Daniela Patricia, a seven-year-old Cuban girl facing the labyrinth of the US immigration courts]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-17/daniela-patricia-a-seven-year-old-cuban-girl-facing-the-labyrinth-of-the-us-immigration-courts.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-17/daniela-patricia-a-seven-year-old-cuban-girl-facing-the-labyrinth-of-the-us-immigration-courts.htmlThu, 17 Apr 2025 14:17:24 +0000They dressed her in a white gown and placed a floral headband over her curly hair. Seven-year-old Daniela Patricia Ferrer Reyes entered the Immigration Court building in Dallas, Texas, as if entering a castle.

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]]><![CDATA[Doral ‘betrays’ its community: Local police will collaborate with ICE to detain migrants]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-16/doral-betrays-its-community-local-police-will-collaborate-with-ice-to-detain-migrants.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-16/doral-betrays-its-community-local-police-will-collaborate-with-ice-to-detain-migrants.htmlWed, 16 Apr 2025 09:00:50 +0000The city of Doral, in Miami-Dade County, fears it will never be the same again. Some say businesses and streets will empty out, that people will stay silent about violence rather than report it, and that fear will spread among the immigrant community. When police officers begin working hand in hand with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as local authorities are planning, the Venezuelan stronghold in the United States will become a dangerous place for its residents.

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]]>Rebecca Blackwell<![CDATA[From Obama to Trump: How two presidents precipitated the end of ‘Cuban privilege’ in the US]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-16/from-obama-to-trump-how-two-presidents-precipitated-the-end-of-cuban-privilege-in-the-us.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-16/from-obama-to-trump-how-two-presidents-precipitated-the-end-of-cuban-privilege-in-the-us.htmlWed, 16 Apr 2025 08:33:37 +0000Some say the end of the so-called “Cuban privilege” in the United States is rapidly approaching. This benefit — inherited from the Cold War era — has paved the way for Cuban immigrants to secure green cards and eventually U.S. citizenship for nearly six decades. Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, there has never been a time, until now, when approximately 550,000 Cubans in the U.S. have been unable to adjust their immigration status in a country that has historically welcomed them.

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]]>Marta Lavandier<![CDATA[Political prisoner Lázaro Yuri Valle’s parole revoked: ‘If they deport me, I’ll continue fighting for Cuba’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-07/political-prisoner-lazaro-yuri-valles-parole-revoked-if-they-deport-me-ill-continue-fighting-for-cuba.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-07/political-prisoner-lazaro-yuri-valles-parole-revoked-if-they-deport-me-ill-continue-fighting-for-cuba.htmlMon, 07 Apr 2025 16:01:28 +0000The authorities at Combinado del Este, the maximum-security prison on the outskirts of Havana, led him out in handcuffs and up to the fifth floor of the National Hospital, where they strapped him to a gurney. He was emaciated — just skin and bones. It’s said that when his wife walked into the clinic and saw him, she broke down in tears, screaming that he was going to die, that they’d been killing him slowly for some time.

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