Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer has left Cuba for the U.S. at the request of the U.S. government, according to Cuban authorities.

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history.

Ricardo Alarcón, who was for years the head of Cuba’s parliament and one of the country’s most prominent diplomats, has died in Havana.