The United States says it has sent five immigrants to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program.

That tension has played out on a number of issues, and it surfaced again over how to navigate Cuba policy—whether to take a more hard-line approach that would aim to topple the regime or settle for a less aggressive set of punitive actions without dramatically escalating sanctions.

Cuba's Labor Minister claimed there are no beggars in the nation, drawing criticism from President Miguel Díaz-Canel. He highlighted visible poverty as a symptom of wider social inequality. The comments were made amidst economic hardships affecting the Cuban population,

Cuba’s crucial and struggling tourism industry was hit with more US sanctions, as President Donald Trump’s administration ratchets up pressure on the communist-run island and its top officials.

Lina Luaces, center, is hugged by all the contestants after she being crowned Miss Universe Cuba 2025 during the beauty pageant at Milander Park on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Hialeah, Fla. Photo by Matias J. Ocner [email protected]

As a Texas man is facing charges for allegedly driving a rental boat from the Florida Keys all the way to Cuba, the owner of the marina from which it was rented is still trying to figure out how they got into this mess.

Human Rights Watch reported Friday that hundreds of protesters remain behind bars, even though the Cuban government agreed in January to release many following negotiations led by the Vatican.

A Texas man has been arrested after deputies say he made a voyage to Cuba in a boat he rented on Stock Island and did not return.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office charged 63-year-old Floyd Dean Devasier of Katy, Texas on Thursday for stealing a rental boat from a Stock Island marina and taking it to Cuba. Devasier rented the 26.5-foot Panga boat from Beach Weekend Key West Marina on Tuesday for two days… pic.twitter.com/IXfyPlzUxG

Ad Policy Cuban military personnel carry caricatures of US President Donald Trump as they pass in front of the Jose Marti monument during the May Day parade on May 1, 2019, in Hav