Economic Crisis in Cuba

A Cuban shows how guava paste is made in Cuba, and a detail sparks criticism: "That can't be eaten."

Where is the abundance? Cuban finds only five products in a neighborhood market in Havana

Havana bets on solar energy to pump water

The U.S. will use "all available means" to pressure the Cuban regime following new sanctions

Cubans will stand in front of the White House with a message for Trump on October 1: "Finish the job."

Expensive or cheap? On a visit to Cuba, they went out to buy food and this is what they spent

MINREX highlights the contradiction of the "sovereign" reforms: Havana looks more towards Washington than to the Cubans

Radio Victoria has been off the air in Las Tunas for over a month

This is how the informal market closes in Cuba: the dollar breaks the barrier of 750 pesos

The Cuban regime blames Trump for hindering its economic reforms

They sold him water instead of oil: fraud reported involving a supposedly sealed bottle in Santiago de Cuba

Psychologist blames the system in Cuba: "It is not the children's responsibility to ensure their parents' old age."

Saudi Arabia funds a 9 million dollar mosque in Havana while Cuba continues to face a lack of oil

Ulises Toirac: "If anyone has betrayed, it's not me."

Rey Ruiz opens up about Cuba: "It makes me so sad, I feel so ashamed."

Expert warns that leaks about military plans aim to pressure the Cuban regime

“Fallen Hands Syndrome”: Sister Nadieska Almeida describes the exhaustion experienced by part of Cuba

Cuba's Ministry of Health acknowledges an increase in infectious diseases and links it to the water and sanitation crisis

The government claims that 96.7% of citizens' complaints in Isla de la Juventud have been "resolved."

This is what I could buy in Cuba with just 6 dollars: "Here we have no other choice."

China promises to continue supporting Cuba and its "socialist development path."

Díaz-Canel wants to expand the surveillance of the CDR on its 66th anniversary

Marrero champions the socialist state enterprise and applauds the officials who are "already changing" their mindset

The Cuban regime claims to have implemented 89% of its reforms, but the crisis shows no signs of relenting

A Cuban warns Díaz-Canel: The reforms to save socialism could lead to "the most ruthless capitalism."

What is the price of the dollar and the euro in Cuba today?: This is how the informal market in the island starts the day

Grand Master Lázaro Bruzón: in Cuba "we have the worst in the economy... the worst in social order."

A Cuban woman needs surgery, but they are asking her to get everything from the serum to the catheter: "Where am I supposed to find that?"

Words falling out of use amid rampant inflation: Cuban writer recalls the peseta and the "peso macho"

Lyrical lament of a poet: between the "Judas of the government" and "a future that does not arrive"

"Oh my God, come down from heaven and see this": Neighbors dismantle official publication about ambulance in Mayabeque

First percutaneous nephrolithotomy at the pediatric hospital in Pinar del Río

"The culture is as dim as its circuits": They lament the abandonment of the AHS headquarters in Mayabeque

"It's sad to see this in Cuba with so many diseases": people rummaging through the trash in Havana

Cuban professor on the double shift: "It's a way to mask that the school is falling apart."

"If it weren't for the neighbors, he would have died of hunger": activist denounces abandonment of blind elderly man in Holguín

Help is being sought for a five-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and severe malnutrition in Ciego de Ávila

Family in Matanzas invites vulnerable neighbors to share their table every December

Checkbook: "The chicken package also saw a salary increase."

Mr. Rubio, in Havana, clerics also govern: only without turbans

The United Kingdom tightens its official travel warning to Cuba

Morales Ojeda at yet another meeting with the National UJC: "What was decided?"

After the meeting with business leaders, Marrero Cruz speaks "about integrating, about motivating everyone, including the population itself."

Díaz-Canel speaks of "the CDRs that this time needs," and Cubans respond: "Count me out."

He took his mom to a market in Brazil, and this is how she reacted

Dead lions, stolen crocodile, and monkey moved to die: the end of the Colón zoo

Inflation is accelerating in Cuba and could reach around 25% this year

"An odyssey, an impossible mission": this is what withdrawing cash at a bank in Havana has become

Economists from the University of Havana forecast another contraction of the Cuban economy in 2026

Trump says that Cuba "is failing spectacularly."

Armed assault against a small and medium-sized enterprise in Havana: Shots fired and one worker injured

Cuban: "Nothing is produced here. Things are imported, hoarded, and resold."

Where did Cuba's fish end up? Official figures show a collapse in catches

A Cuban compares her country to her old washing machine: tired of going in circles, worn out, and fed up with the dirty water

Jonathan, a Cuban with visual impairments, was assaulted while selling bread on his bicycle to earn a living

Cuban retiree: "After having worked for over 65 years... I receive a pittance of 3,800 pesos."

Dollar and euro rise in Cuba, reaching new highs in the informal market

"This is not the socialism we had in mind," they affirm during a meeting on economic transformations in Las Tunas

Three years of banking integration and over 31,000 retirees in Guantánamo are still waiting in line at the banks

Authorities acknowledge that one in every ten residents of Holguín is in a vulnerable situation