Carbon

Cuban boy touching the coffee maker in his home: "It's dirty because communism leads to this."

Coal in Cuba: a sack can cost half of a salary, reflects photographer and entrepreneur

Warnings about the dangers of smoke and toxic gases from cooking with charcoal in high-rise buildings in Santiago de Cuba

Cubans invent their charcoal stoves: Ingenuity in the face of the energy crisis

The official newspaper boasts about coal exports, and Cubans erupt: "What will the people cook with?"

"That doesn't exist, it doesn't matter": Cubans react to the new price of 350 CUP for the gas canister

"Still Exist": Official Publication on Charcoal Plates Infuriates Cubans

Sancti Spíritus orders its agricultural enterprises to produce charcoal

Cuban sparks outrage on social media by claiming that the U.S. won't defeat him: "At least there's something to cook."

There is plenty of marabou, but not enough coal: Las Tunas is wasting one of its greatest resources

Coal at 4,000 pesos: cooking during blackouts becomes another luxury in Sancti Spíritus

A baby who suffered burns while his parents were cooking with charcoal in Santiago de Cuba has been discharged from the hospital

Coal invades the neighborhoods of Santiago: Cubans set up furnaces to produce "black gold."

Cuban animal activist burns herself while cooking with charcoal for her dogs: "No one can find peace with the life we're living."

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

The government in Camagüey is trying to contain the coal crisis with official prices and limited distribution

The price of a sack of coal in Cuba skyrockets: "You bought it for a super low price."

Even coal is "a mission impossible" in Cuba

Prices in Bayamo: a carton of eggs for 4,000 pesos, a pound of sugar for 400, and oil for 1,500

"Everything feels like a curfew": Cuban denounces shortages and exorbitant prices at a fair

"The rice is gone": Cuban prepares breadfruit with fried egg and her video goes viral

"I don't want to resist, I want to live": Mother of Cuban activist Anna Bensi rejects the romanticization of the poverty imposed by the regime

It started with electricity and ended with coal: The odyssey of a Cuban woman to make some beans

Odyssey of a Cuban mother to light the charcoal: "You either conquer the system or the system conquers you."

A Cuban woman lights her charcoal stove with pages from "The Diary of Che in Bolivia."

Trump publishes list of actions to eliminate green energy regulations and bet on fossil fuels

Cubans invent ways to cook with charcoal while a company exports that same product to Europe

Cubana showcases the redesign of its pressure cooker: "This saves me during power outages."

"How many more sacks of coal do I have to buy?": Cuban woman reports exhaustion due to blackouts

The regime sentences Cubans to cook with charcoal while Díaz-Canel plays at war

Seven facts that explain why Díaz-Canel talks about firewood for cooking in 2026

CUPET founder urges to keep "the revolution alive." Really?

Cuba, year 2026: "We are almost indigenous."

Díaz-Canel justifies cooking with charcoal in Cuba as a demonstration of “creative resistance.”

Tutorials for surviving in Cuba: How to light charcoal without fuel

A grandmother and a grandson who refuse to give in to the crisis in Cuba

When gas is scarce, ingenuity flourishes: The Cuban who powered his Fiat with coal

Is this a meme? Cuban soldiers boast about "personnel care" with coal distribution and trigger a wave of mockery

While the world debates Artificial Intelligence, Cuba survives with firewood and coal

Official media talks about coal as an "eco-friendly alternative" amid a crisis

Coal: The Business of the Moment in Cuba, Born from Darkness

Coal and Fans: The Incentive for Baseball Players in Las Tunas

Cuban grandmother receives a special gift and her reaction goes viral: "My little guy sent it to me."

Cuba in survival mode: This is how a stove is made with sawdust for cooking without electricity or gas

Between rice, peas, and hope: This is how those evacuated by Hurricane Melissa in Granma are being fed

They steal the pressure cooker that she had on the charcoal stove softening the beans

Artists amaze in Isle of Youth with giant Mona Lisa painted with charcoal on the street

At least 60,000 Cuban prisoners produce tobacco and charcoal that end up in Europe through forced labor, according to NGOs

Bundles of firewood are being sold in Las Tunas due to the general blackout in Cuba: "Something is better than nothing?"

"Cubans never have a day filled with joy": A Cuban shares her reality in "the coal era."

Coal exports are increasing, and Cubans are asking: "What about the people's coal?"

Cuban in Cienfuegos turns old rice cookers into charcoal stoves

“Neither vulnerable nor bedridden”: official excuse to deny liquefied gas to a sick elderly woman in Matanzas

From gas to coal: Cuban government promotes the use of briquettes for cooking amid the energy crisis

Fires, deforestation, and less reforestation: the triple blow to the green lung of Cuba

The butcher from Matanzas lights a charcoal oven on the street so that the neighbors can brew coffee every morning

Alert: Over 9 million Cubans cook under precarious conditions due to the energy crisis

Young person recounts the ordeal of obtaining liquefied gas in Cuba: "That's why you'll see many cooking with charcoal."

Without rice, without gas, and waiting for charcoal: This is how Santiago de Cuba is

They are exporting coal from Cuba while it is becoming scarce and more expensive for the people