Cuban elders

The Cuba of El Cangrejo and the Cuba of the boy who saved his food for his grandparents

Teen reserves food donation in Cuba: "I’m going to save it for my grandparents."

They gift a bicycle and money to a Cuban grandfather who was a victim of a robbery in Ciego de Ávila

"Let’s hope that path is not like a utopia": Cubans facing the checkbook payment

Cáritas Cuba brings music and joy to the elderly residents of the Limonar Nursing Home in an emotional intergenerational meeting

In Cuba, twice as many people are dying as are being born, according to official figures

How can a retiree live on 2,500 Cuban pesos?

Queues, heat, and endurance: The daily ordeal of Cubans trying to withdraw money from the bank

92-year-old Cuban woman begs in the street for "at least five pesos" to be able to eat

Habitante premieres, the documentary that made the words of a fisherman from Havana go viral

Local businesses will be responsible for paying the pensions of thousands of Cubans

"Eight hours lying on a sidewalk": journalist captures the ordeal of collecting a pension in Cuba

Aging in Cuba is a tragedy: miserable pensions, hunger, and neglect

They are requesting help with blood donations for a grandmother in Ciego de Ávila

"Fuck it": Cuban elder erupts against Díaz-Canel in video that reflects discontent on the island

René Navarro denounces the reality of Cuba: "It is a mental and physical torture."

A 12-story building in Santa Clara has been without electricity or water for almost 5 days: "How do you carry a bucket of water up 12 floors?"

The regime will recognize up to 10 years of family care as work time for retirement

Alina Bárbara López reports the arrest of activists while elderly individuals are fainting without food or electricity in the midst of summer

Dementia, the disease that is spreading in Cuba

Even the food from social cafeterias cannot be guaranteed by the regime; they depend on private sources

Cuban grandfather, 70 years old: "How can I eat for an entire month with 4,000 pesos?"

Indignation in Camagüey: two elderly people live in a collapsed shack without receiving government assistance

"It's shameful": Huge line of retirees waiting to cash at a bank in Santiago de Cuba

The pain of seeing elderly people waiting in line to collect a salary that is not enough

Cuban woman reports hardships in Havana hospital: "I cried out of shame, exhaustion, helplessness, and sadness."

63-year-old woman disappears in Matanzas after going into the woods to look for charcoal

"With the humble and for the humble? The generation that made the most sacrifices feels abandoned by the reforms in Cuba."

The regime wants private companies to help support pensioners, the elderly, and community dining facilities

Presbyterian Church (USA) delivers blocked pensions to 44 Cubans after nearly 65 years

The Odyssey of Cuban Seniors: Dining Rooms without Gas, Starvation Pensions, and Lonely Grandparents

"Hope dies with them": elderly people in Cuba trapped in bureaucracy to obtain Spanish citizenship

The Granma government admits that it does not have enough money to pay more than 111,000 retirees

Cuban woman reports bankruptcy of state company: Her 64-year-old father lost his job overnight

The detainees from Alligator Alcatraz are being relocated to other immigration centers, including many elderly Cubans

"My grandfather turned 88 years old without being able to gather his daughters": Cuban denounces the isolation of rural communities in Cienfuegos

Cubans are lining up at a bank in El Cotorro amidst puddles of sewage water

How much does a retiree's pension yield in Cuba? Influencer conducts an experiment

Cáritas Camagüey establishes a dining hall to support homeless individuals

Frustration in a line at the bank in Havana: "There’s no money, there’s nothing, this is a lost cause."

Cuban elderly who believed in the Revolution face hunger, blackouts, and miserable pensions

"We have to endure": What an elderly woman does to survive the crisis in Cuba

Food is donated to a senior dining hall in Havana

Cuban grandfather: "Surviving, eating, is currently a luxury."

Cuban grandmother, 90 years old: "What worries me the most is the whole situation in the country."

Cuban journalist Santiago Ramírez Frías has died, the voice of Cárdenas radio for over five decades

A Cuban elder receives assistance and shows her refrigerator: "I have the cold at Blanco and Trocadero."

Aracelia Hernández turns 110 years old, clear-minded and surrounded by the love of her family in Cárdenas

They are seeking help for an 85-year-old Cuban grandfather in Camagüey

Forced banking: The Central Bank of Cuba insists on digitalizing payments in a country without cash or stable connectivity

Cash crisis forces the government to rely on SMEs to pay pensions in Holguín

Retirees in Holguín continue to be subjected to humiliating queues to collect their meager checks

82-year-old Cuban arrested for selling drugs in a parking lot in Little Havana

Exiled Cuban grandfather: "I have achieved the American dream."

Cuban arrested for collecting benefits from his missing mother in Miami confessed that he was not providing her with proper care

Young Cuban raises her voice for a 65-year-old neighbor who cares for her bedridden son and her sick mother

Neither cups nor spoons, and for food, just peas and boiled spaghetti: this is how a shelter in Cuba is

Firefighters in Holguín rescue 73-year-old man trapped by the rising waters of the Marañón River

"That breaks my heart": The helplessness of a Cuban grandmother for families who have nothing to eat

The cheerful reaction of an elderly Cuban woman upon receiving a food donation and a perfume