{"id":1466642,"date":"2022-05-06T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466642"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:15:58","slug":"explosion-hits-luxury-cuban-hotel-that-hosts-high-profile-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/explosion-hits-luxury-cuban-hotel-that-hosts-high-profile-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Hits Luxury Cuban Hotel That Hosts High-Profile Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexplosion-hits-luxury-cuban-hotel-that-hosts-high-profile-visits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466642&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span>The Hotel Saratoga, a luxury Cuban hotspot that has boasted stays by American diplomats and celebrities alike, was partially destroyed in an explosion Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Photos and videos on social media show the partially collapsed hotel, located in oldtown Havana, the Cuban capital, alongside a pile of dust and debris. The immediate cause of the explosion was not clear. There is no word on the number of injuries or fatalities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn just five minutes your life changes forever,\u201d wrote one person on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">En solo 5 minutos te cambia la vida para siempre.<\/p>\n<p>Mis condolencias a todas las v\u00edctimas. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saratoga?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Saratoga<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wlXoRvAUlg\">pic.twitter.com\/wlXoRvAUlg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erich (@ErichGarciaCruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErichGarciaCruz\/status\/1522601544247652354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 \u00daLTIMA HORA \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 Explosi\u00f3n en el Hotel Saratoga en La Habana. Hasta el momento no se conocen detalles de qu\u00e9 pudo haber provocado el incidente y si hay v\u00edctimas al interior del inmuble. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uaIJhzASwr\">https:\/\/t.co\/uaIJhzASwr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cjVUtCNaB3\">pic.twitter.com\/cjVUtCNaB3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cuba Bella \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfa (@CubaBella13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CubaBella13\/status\/1522602731361419265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Agence-France Press, the hotel had been undergoing some repairs at the time of the explosion. Rescue work is currently underway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_378862\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-378862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adalberto Roque\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A number of high-profile guests have visited the hotel in recent years, including Madonna, Beyonce and Jay-Z. In 2016, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited the hotel along with an American congressional delegation. Two years earlier, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) visited the hotel for a trip.<\/p>\n<p><span>The hotel is located about 200 miles from Miami, Florida, where a condo collapse last summer left 98 dead, including several Cuban immigrants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>This is a developing story; refresh the page for updates.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hotel Saratoga, a luxury Cuban hotspot that has boasted stays by American diplomats and celebrities alike, was partially destroyed in an explosion Friday afternoon.\u00a0Photos and videos on social media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":1466645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}