Lines in Cuba

Cuban retiree laments having believed in the promises of 1959: "We are worse off"

Withdrawing money from banks in Las Tunas has become another test of patience

Resellers take away the bread, while mothers and the elderly wait in the sun at a bakery in Las Tunas

"An odyssey, impossible mission": that's what it's like to withdraw cash at a bank in Havana

Long lines to buy oil for 2,200 pesos at a small business in Cuba

Teachers in Santiago de Cuba wait for hours without being able to cash their salaries

Elderly people sleep on the ground in the early morning to collect their pension in Santiago de Cuba

"This was a labor, of triplets": The tragicomic odyssey of buying oil in Havana

"Something should change": Cuban grandparents continue lining up to cash their checks

Mipyme offers soup to retirees while they wait to cash their checks at the bank in Santiago de Cuba

"That's chaotic": retirees and citizens face yet another endless line in front of a bank in Guantánamo

Food, drinks, and chairs: the "solution" to the waits of retirees for their pensions in Santiago de Cuba

Retirees in Holguín are once again left without payment: "A sea of the desperate" in front of the banks

He cashes his first Facebook check in Cuba and faces obstacles at the store: "Not even shopping in dollars brings comfort."

Cuban in Abkhazia faces a fuel line and relives the traumas of Cuba

"Celebrate misery? The municipal secretary of the PCC in Ciego de Ávila boasts about hard bread and yucca fritters."

For a laugh! If the Titanic had been in Cuba: "No going back, not even to gain momentum!"

Economist Elías Amor defines "the reality" behind the lines at Cuban banks

This is what the line looks like at a bank in El Vedado to withdraw money

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

Hours-long wait to enter El Náutico: The reality of Cubans that Díaz-Canel did not see during his visit

Elderly people are standing in long lines in Santiago de Cuba to collect their pensions

With light, cash, and connectivity, the Holguín bank once again fails to serve retirees

Cuban woman showcases her millionaire food in Cuba: Here’s what they cooked

An hour and a half for some forms: Cuban denounces the chaos and disorder at a bank

In the dark and illuminated by cell phones: This is how people line up to buy chicken in Cuba

Chaos in bank lines in Havana to withdraw money: "We can't use our salaries"

These are the things she misses about Cuba and those she doesn't after 9 years living in Spain: "Who else experiences this?"

A Cuban woman recounts that her mother was attacked while leaving the airport in Havana: "I'm telling you so it doesn't happen to you."

Chequera uncovers the "true" utility of magnetic cards in Cuba

Cubans line up at a bank in El Cotorro among puddles of sewage water

ATMs disabled to prevent people from "causing trouble," leading to chaos outside Banco Metropolitano de La Habana

Until anger in a bank line in Havana: "There's no money, there's nothing, this is lost."

Cubans are questioning: who turned withdrawing their own money from a bank and accepting transfers into an obstacle course?

The monthly snapshot in Cuba: elderly people in long lines to collect their pensions

Roberto San Martín relives the trauma of Cuba: He went to a supermarket and found this

Shoves and chaos at a bank in Havana as retirees and workers try to withdraw their money

Three lines and no control: chaos reigns for purchasing mobile lines at Etecsa in San Luis, Santiago de Cuba

The queues that repeat throughout Cuba: grandparents waiting for their checks

Cubans denounce corruption at the gas station in El Vedado: “The same people are allowed to fuel up every day.”

At night and with tickets! That's how long the endless lines are to buy gasoline in Havana

Fuel queues in Holguín: "The last one is over there"

Buying gasoline in Cuba is a risky endeavor: Here are the fuel prices in Havana

This is the line for gasoline at the service station in Zapata and 2 in Havana

Lines to buy gasoline in dollars in Cuba are growing despite CUPET's denial

"Ready for the gas line": Rebeca Martínez adds flavor to the shortages with her dance distribution

Cienfuegos deploys police to manage the lines of elderly people at the banks

The Revolution of Indifference: Why Cubans No Longer Expect Anything from the Power

Chaos and corruption in the sale of liquefied gas at the Micro 7 location in Santiago de Cuba are being reported

Santiagueros protest against ETECSA: SIM cards run out in record time after months of absence

"Each measure represents more poverty for the worker": Cubans react to the new floating rate

Chaos and disappointment in Havana during the final screening of Regreso al Corazón

Banked, but without money: Guantánamo digitizes the wait to obtain the cash that is missing from the ATMs

While Cubans stand in line for food, tons of mangoes rot unharvested

"A whole town behind a truck": Crowds in Alamar lining up to buy rice

Cuban retirees are queuing for long hours at the bank in Cárdenas to collect their pitiful pensions

A human tide in front of a bank in Marianao highlights the collapse of cash in Cuba

That's how the Santa Clara airport was! Lines and exhaustion during an endless wait: "I can't take it anymore."

Santiago de Cuba: long lines at dollar stores ahead of Hurricane Melissa's arrival

Cubans line up for long waits in Puerto Padre to withdraw money before Hurricane Melissa arrives