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La Lupe never seemed to second-guess herself onstage. The Afro-Cuban singer — who died 30 years ago this week, on Feb. 29, 1992 — was infinitely watchable, unafraid to kick and howl and twitch, as if the music were sending electric jolts throughout her body. In Cuba, where she headlined …

The Biden administration imposed new sanctions against a Cuban official for alleged human rights abuses inflicted on protesters during the government’s crackdown earlier this month. The sanctions, brought against the Cuban defense minister and the head of the nation’s special forces brigade, Alvaro Lopez Miera, were “just the beginning,” President …