Food in Cuba

Data sheds light: Cuba produced rice and potatoes for decades, but today barely assures their availability

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

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

Cubadebate comes to the defense of the deputy who supported 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 we should take rice and potatoes away from the people": Roberto Caballero breaks his silence after criticism

Without cows or meat, 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 is now discussing "the planting of resilient crops" following the controversy over rice and potatoes

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

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

Church in Santiago de Cuba hosts Christmas luncheon for over 700 underprivileged individuals

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

Economist debunks the account of "excessive consumption" of rice in Cuba and presents the historical decline in the cereal's supply

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

Unvarnished poverty: hunger drives the poorest to the trash 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 erupts 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 suggestion of "Don't eat potatoes or rice" made 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 conceals 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 ground beef, 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 widespread scarcity

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

Gaviota Hotels hold a culinary competition amid the food crisis on the Island

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

"Best Meme of the Year": Granma states that "Cuba defends the full dignity of its citizens," and social media is ablaze

While Cubans wait in line for food, tons of mangos are rotting unharvested

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

Valdés Mesa admits the bankruptcy of the state rice industry 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 power outages continue

Cubadebate promotes Colombian oil and Cuban rum for export and faces a deluge of criticism

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

From Launch to Void: Agricultural Market in Guantánamo Can’t Last Even 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 African swine fever

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

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

"Living is not enough; it's about surviving": Hunger strikes the Cuban countryside after Hurricane Melissa

Government sells expired canned fish in Santiago after Hurricane Melissa

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

Cuban bodybuilders defy food shortages and shine at the Provincial Championship in Matanzas

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, the Turquino Plan remains cut off and relies on mules to receive food supplies

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

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

Scarcity and spoiled food: The aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Cuba

Police deploy pepper spray against women with children during a food sale in Santiago de Cuba

Cándido Fabré misses Lázaro Expósito and calls for state markets with fair prices

The government denies that this time it is selling the donated oil in warehouses

MINED talks about proper nutrition while Cuban children go to school without having breakfast

"We have no food or milk for the girl": the desperate cry for help of a Cuban in Cayo Granma, Santiago de Cuba

"Neither milk nor mattresses": Outrage over the treatment of evacuees from Río Cauto

Díaz-Canel visits evacuation center in Holguín and boasts about the "good nutrition."

Residents of the town of Sigua, south of Santiago de Cuba, without food or milk for the children: "The government doesn't even show its face."

Desperate cry: 17-year-old mother seeks help to obtain milk in light of Melissa's approach