Food in Cuba

Images show the deplorable state of the bread received by families in Santiago de Cuba

From an empty refrigerator in Cuba to a full one in Brazil: "There is no better image."

A Cuban spends 2,400 pesos to prepare a meal: "I went for the cheapest option."

Having electricity in Cuba is like "living as a millionaire": Even the yogurt froze

Bread, guava, and a soft drink for over 500 pesos: the cost of a school snack in Cuba

Cuban mother: "You try enduring three hours without electricity... with an empty stomach and a dry throat."

They rob a truck loaded with oil in Havana while the police watch helplessly

Church forbidden to deliver breakfasts to those in need: the elderly and sick must travel to get them

The anguish of a mother whose daughter is going to school for the first time: "I don't want her to go through more difficulties than she does at home."

"How easy it is to ask for resilience": Cubans respond to Morales Ojeda's post about the school year

Cuban ex-professor survives by cleaning pots: "I have to choose between food and medicine."

Economic embargo or failed model? BBC examines why Cuba cannot feed its population

Crisis in Cuba also impacts animals: shelters survive without water, electricity, or food

Leonardo Padura in El País: "In a trench of time," Cubans "ask themselves 'until when?'"

They show how salt is harvested in Cuba, without machinery or technology, and one reaction summarizes a paradox

Activist Mireya Jiménez lashes out at Aleida Guevara: "Everyday Cubans survive thanks to the self-employed."

Chicken picadillo, the latest victim of rising prices in Cuba

A Cuban family survives on chicken bones for 50 pesos and has gone two days without eating

Cuban mothers divided on whether to send their children to school: "The issue goes beyond whether the children study or not."

What could one buy to eat in Cuba for just $1.60?

Cuban TV showcases a communist leader from Guantánamo who tends to his plot of land "in the little free time" he has

Government reopens restaurant in Las Tunas and Cubans respond: "What we need now is availability."

The harsh reality of a retiree in Cuba: Working at 77 years old to be able to eat

Cuban health worker parents cannot feed their baby: "We can't take it anymore."

"No way, that’s final": Cuban mothers refuse to send their children to school if minimum conditions are not met

Not even the soda packs are useful in Cuba: Concerned mothers face a new school year

Ulises Toirac criticizes the price ceiling: "Where can I accuse ETECSA and the dollar stores of abusive prices and scams?"

Cuban women face blackouts, lack of water and food, while the FMC proposes teaching them to "overcome" vulnerability

The state fails to fill the markets, but a company in Granma is preparing a virtual store to sell agricultural products

Cubana displays the prices at a store: "These are the cheapest. You don't want to see the most expensive ones!"

Cuban mothers in the face of the new school year: "When my children don't sleep, they won't go."

Small bread, poor quality, and exorbitant prices: yet another humiliation for families in Guantánamo

A Community Food Home managed by a private business is inaugurated in Ciego de Ávila

Díaz-Canel calls for planting in every vacant space in Playa to tackle the food shortage

"The Sad Reality": Cuban Mother Cooks an Egg in Water Due to Lack of Oil

The government of Las Tunas denies that one lion killed another to eat it, but admits that they were suffering from hunger

"To embarrass Díaz-Canel": Cuban shows the food from a public hospital in Italy

Raúl Torres has the solution to hunger in Cuba: "Snails, plantains, buffaloes..."

Food crisis in Cuba: after the shortage of oil, now the lines are for pig fat

Cuban declares "oil strike" in response to prices reaching up to 7,000 pesos per bottle

What can be bought with 15 dollars in Cuba? A video shows it starkly

The price of food and power outages have turned access to nourishment into a luxury in Cuba

The egg in Cuba: a luxury worth 135 pesos in Las Tunas

Cuban leaders are once again calling for increased food production in Havana as the agricultural crisis deepens

Extensive malnutrition of lions reported at the zoo in Las Tunas

600 pesos per pound of meat, and they say it's "affordable": that's how the fair for Fidel Castro's centenary was in Camagüey

Content creator and her family distribute lunches in Cuba: "What is a common meal for many is now a true luxury."

Cuba receives its third shipment of Chinese rice on the centenary of Fidel Castro

Extreme poverty affects 94% of Cubans, according to a study by OCDH

"Not eating well": The harrowing testimony of a Cuban elder

Artemisa joins the price control in Cuba: "And who controls that?"

"This is pure and simple survival": Testimonies describe what it means to search for food every day in Cuba

Up to 850 pesos for pork: that's how prices are in Cuba

Songo La Maya sets prices for oil and eggs

"We want food, electricity, freedom": New posters against the regime in Santiago de Cuba

"They are ruining their childhood": the heartbreaking message of a Cuban father

Cuban father asks for milk for his three daughters and pleads for them to hide his face: “They'll sentence me to five years”

GAESA sells a dairy product in dollars for more than three times its import value in Cuba

Cuban in the U.S. after visiting the island: “The reality in Cuba is harsher than many imagine.”

“Thank you for everything, Fidel”: Cubans erupt on social media over soaring prices of eggs and oil