Cuba is open to having a fluid commercial relationship with U.S. companies" and "also with Cubans residing in the United States and their descendants," Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga said in an interview in Havana.

Cuban American Darien Barrios has been away from home for almost 19 years. "The situation in Cuba is so difficult right now for everybody: no electricity; no food; no medicine," Barrios said. The

The latest blackout in Cuba comes over a week after another massive outage​ affected the island's west, leaving millions without power.

On Friday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the country was running on about 40% of the fuel it needs, and that figure is dwindling daily as no fuel is entering the country. The result is that women are giving birth in dark hospitals with no power, and locals say they are used to power lasting just two to five hours daily.

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck eastern Cuba early Tuesday, hours after the island's national power grid collapsed. No deaths were reported.

Trump says he could bring freedom to Cuba for the first time in 70 years as former official predicts breakthrough amid the island's ongoing power crisis.

Cuba continues to face deep turmoil with severe economic hardship and widespread energy shortages. Hialeah Mayor Bryan Calvo joined CBS News Miami’s Erika Gonzalez on Monday morning to discuss the latest with Cuba in crisis and more on the task force he created that targeted local businesses that may have been sending good illegally to Cuba.

Removing Miguel Diaz-Canel as president of Cuba to appease the US is out of the question, the country’s ambassador to the United Nations said, adding that talks between the two countries should be based on “mutual respect.

Hong Kong-flagged tanker allegedly delivered 190,000 barrels of Russian oil to Cuba using AIS spoofing and ship-to-ship transfers to evade U.S. sanctions.