In 2018, Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) signed a deal that would have allowed Cuban players to sign directly with MLB teams without having to abandon the island.

But the deal was nixed by the Trump administration just four months later.

We take a look at how Obama's baseball diplomacy was snuffed out under Trump and Biden and the disastrous impact it has had on Cuban baseball players and their families.

From Havana Syndrome to Russian warships, major media outlets in recent years have sparked and fanned the flames of hysteria when it comes to Cuba.

The latest boogeyman: “China spy bases.”

There is no evidence any such base exists on the island. But who needs evidence when you have anonymous U.S. officials?

On June 11, 2021, thousands took to the streets in the largest anti-government demonstrations in decades.

The protests lasted only one day, but three years later Cuba still faces ruinous fallout in the form of unrelenting economic warfare waged by the Biden administration.

We look at what led to the protests and how Biden used them to justify abandoning Obama’s detente.

Six years ago, cruise ships from Miami were dropping off boatloads of U.S. visitors at Havana’s port on a daily basis

Since then, Carnival and Royal Caribbean have been replaced with Russian warships and a nuclear-powered submarine.

So…how did this happen?

The Miami Herald has flung any concern for journalistic standards to the wind in a fear-mongering piece speculating that Cuba will influence the 2024 elections in Florida.

The evidence?

Belly of the Beast journalist Reed Lindsay analyzes their erroneous claims, shifting our attention closer to home in order to find evidence of election tampering.

Cuba policy played a much smaller role that expected in deciding 2022 midterm elections.

That doesn't mean that the results won't have major implications for U.S. policy towards Cuba, however.

Belly of the Beast journalist Lee Schlenker takes us through the four main takeaways from the 2022 midterms.

U.S. and Cuban diplomats have renewed conversations around key topics for the first time in years.

But, how much optimism should there be? Not much, according to Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío.

Belly of the Beast journalist Lee Schlenker takes a look at how Biden’s Cuba policy seeks “to make Cuba a failed state”.

Cuba is the only country in the world still subject to sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act - a 1917 law designed to cut off trade with Germany during World War I.

The law, intended for use during war, has been applied to Cuba for 60 years. It serves as the legal basis for the most extensive sanctions regime imposed by one country on another in modern history.

As the Biden administration has sought to create distance from Trump’s domestic and foreign policy, we examine how the U.S. economic war against Cuba has remained at full throttle under Biden.

Biden plans to increase cooperation with international partners on health initiatives as part of a $2 billion biotech spending.

However, U.S. foreign policy prevents cooperation with a potential key counterpart just 90 miles away.

Cuba, a global biotech leader that has produced vaccines to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, among other life-saving drugs, is prevented from exporting its medicines to the U.S. due to sanctions.

Millions of Cubans are set to vote on Cuba's new Families Code.

The new Families Code would give Cuba some of the most progressive laws on LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights in the hemisphere.

The legislation, which has gone through an extensive participatory revision process, comes as some U.S. states pass abortion bans in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade.

For most Europeans, visiting the U.S. is a hassle-free process.

All they have to do is fill out an ESTA form, and within 72 hours they’ve got a green light to enter the U.S. without a visa.

But there’s a catch.

ESTA is barred for anyone who has visited or resided in Cuba. We take a look at how Trump was unable to enact this policy and the impact it could have on the Cuban economy.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio has claimed credit for U.S. Cuba policy under Trump, and now Biden.

Once a sworn enemy of Trump's, Rubio became a key architect of the Trump Administration's pivot from Obama-era detente to a "maximum pressure" foreign policy.

But what does Rubio gain from this admission? For one, he is no longer a lock to win re-election as he is now neck-and-neck with Democratic contender Val Demings.