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The U. S. government slapped sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier on Monday in response to Sunday's election, which it called a "sham".

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba said on Tuesday it was suspending issuing new licenses for certain private-sector activities from bed-and-breakfasts to restaurants until it had implemented new measures to curb wrongdoing such as tax ...

Chipping away at Barack Obama's legacy, United States President Donald Trump cancelled his predecessor's 'one-sided' Cuba deal and put the two Cold War-era rivals on collision course again by vowing to not allow dollars to prop up Raul Castro's 'military monopoly'. Obama had announced in December 2014 that he and Castro were restoring ties and less than a year later, the US Embassy in Havana was re-opened with the then US president making a historic visit to the ...

President Donald Trump's decision to reverse some Obama-era Cuba policies landed with a thud among many congressional Republicans who say the new approach surrenders a potentially lucrative market for American goods and services to competitors The post ...

Cuba earned more than $3 billion from tourism in 2016 and expects to better that this year despite President Donald Trump's tightening of restrictions on U. S. travel to the Caribbean island, a government official said on Wednesday.

U. S. tour operators that send Americans to Cuba are banding together to try to limit damage to business from tighter restrictions on travel to the communist-run island expected in September from the Trump administration.

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Venezuela's crude and fuel deliveries to Cuba have slid almost 13 percent in the first half this year, according to documents from state-run oil company PDVSA viewed by Reuters, threatening to worsen gasoline and power shortages in the communist-run island.

In a hard-edged response to the policy announced Friday, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said from Vienna today that Trump's restrictions on transactions with the Cuban military would not achieve their objective of weakening the government.