Food in Cuba

National tragedy: Pork production fell by 95.2% between 2017 and 2023

“Where are the leaders?”: Habanera denounces life on the brink in a Cuba without water, electricity, or food

The end of Venezuelan oil severely impacts food security in Cuba

"Armored" positions in Villa Clara: state media boasts of hardened egg shells amid a collapsed poultry sector

The Cuban government defends state cuisine while it is supplied by the private sector

Health crisis worsens: Warning issued about hepatitis A outbreak in Santiago de Cuba

A Cuban shows what food prices are like in Cuba at the beginning of 2026

Two men with several pounds of beef were arrested in Matanzas

"Have you eaten?": Young Cuban gives lunch to needy elderly in the streets of Havana

He received his first TikTok paycheck in Cuba, and here’s what he bought: "A dream come true!"

Fact tells a story: Cuba produced rice and potatoes for decades, and today it barely guarantees them

Díaz-Canel says that "New Year in Cuba is synonymous with triumph."

More than 250 needy Cubans receive year-end food thanks to a private business in Havana

Cubadebate comes out in defense of the deputy who advocated for small and medium-sized enterprises and criticized the country's productive collapse

These are the leftovers from a GAESA hotel in Havana while the Cuban people are starving

"I never said that the people should be deprived of rice and potatoes": Roberto Caballero breaks his silence after criticism

No cows or meat, but there will be a conference on "animal improvement and sustainable livestock" at a hotel in Varadero

Sale of "meat" in Las Tunas sparks outrage: there were only bones

Cubadebate now discusses "the cultivation of resilient crops" following the controversy surrounding rice and potatoes

7 foods that could be banned in Cuba for “not being local”

Luis Alberto García mocks the official discourse about the "Cuban-ness" of foods like rice and potatoes

Church in Santiago de Cuba holds Christmas lunch for over 700 underprivileged individuals

Cuba seen through the eyes of a Peruvian: "Every day things are getting worse."

Economist refutes claims of "excessive consumption" of rice in Cuba and presents historical decline in cereal supply

"Hunger is a reality in Cuba": Economist criticizes the official program "Cuadrando la Caja"

Unvarnished Poverty: Hunger Drives the Most Impoverished to the Streets in the Heart of Santiago de Cuba

The host of "Cuadrando la caja" calls those who criticize the official suggestion not to eat rice or potatoes "worms."

Jorge Díaz mocks the state speech that blames Cubans for eating rice and potatoes

Ulises Toirac lashes out against the official call to give up rice and potatoes: "People in this country do not choose what they are going to eat."

Cubans react to the "Don't eat potatoes or rice" suggestion on national television

“There is no economy for a national solution”: official TV admits there is no national way out of the agricultural crisis in Cuba

The government is hiding an agricultural crisis worse than that of the Special Period with propaganda, warns Cuban economist

What will Cubans have for dinner on Christmas and New Year's Eve? “MDM picadillo, sausage, eggs... and even lemonade.”

Cuba and Haiti, the only two countries in Latin America with a decline in GDP this year

The regime promises "nutritious food" amidst severe shortages

More donations, and the people do not see them: Martinica delivers tons of medicine, food, and clothing to Santiago de Cuba

Gaviota hotels celebrate a culinary competition amid the food crisis on the Island

U.S. pork exports to Cuba reach their highest level since 1970

"Best Meme of the Year": Granma says that "Cuba defends the full dignity of its citizens" and social media is on fire

While Cubans stand in line for food, tons of mangos are rotting without being harvested

Surviving in Cuba costs 50,000 pesos a month, warns economist

Valdés Mesa acknowledges the collapse of the state rice sector and suggests that private entities finance the machinery that the government cannot purchase

Vietnam allocates 50 million dollars to Cuban agriculture: This is how the new project in Artemisa will be

The government announces that all provinces are reconnected to the national electricity grid, but blackouts continue

Cubadebate promotes Colombian oil and Cuban rum for export and faces heavy criticism

BioCubaCafé pays tribute to Guantánamo with luxury coffee that its residents will not see in their cups

From the launch to emptiness: the agricultural market in Guantánamo can't hold up even for seven months stocked

Salvador Valdés Mesa says that Pinar del Río will achieve self-sufficiency in rice by 2026

Spain suspends pork exports to Cuba due to an outbreak of classical swine fever

Susely Morfa blames the "blockade" for the lack of eggs in Cuba

"Giant" fairs and modules for the vulnerable: the government's promise in Villa Clara for the end of the year

"It's not living, it's surviving": Hunger strikes the Cuban countryside after Hurricane Melissa

Government sells canned expired fish in Santiago after Hurricane Melissa

Marrero suggests "selling them a little bit of root vegetables" to those affected by Hurricane Melissa

Cuban bodybuilders challenge food shortages and shine at the Matanzas Provincial Championship

Cáritas Santiago de Cuba operates solidarity kitchens for over 3,000 people following Hurricane Melissa

Cuba is sinking into extreme practices: hunting birds, cats, and iguanas to survive

Two weeks after Melissa, Plan Turquino remains cut off and relies on mule transport to receive supplies

Without brakes, the exodus of talent from Cuban baseball continues: young pitcher Yosbel Pérez leaves the island

Cuban mother speaks out against Díaz-Canel: "We are dying of hunger"