Patrick Oppmann was a 21-year-old college student doing a stint with CNN’s Havana bureau when he tasked himself with finding a woman who had evaded the long arm of American law enforcement for nearly 20 years.

The Chicago Teachers Union is facing backlash over a social media post mourning the death of Assata Shakur, a convicted killer who fled to Cuba.

Premiering on Friday, this new documentary tells the story of Omara Portuondo, the legendary Afro-Cuban chanteuse who rose to international fame with the Buena Vista Social Club.

In recent months, the Trump administration has stepped up its actions against the communist government in Havana.

Byron was known as Joanne Chesimard when a gun battle broke out during traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike in Middlesex County in 1973 and and Trooper Werner Foerster was shot and killed. She broke out of a New Jersey prison in 1979 and escaped to Cuba.