Economic Crisis in Cuba

From learning to read with "Viva Fidel" to fleeing pregnant: A Cuban recounts 27 years of misery and indoctrination under the regime

Cuban on hemodialysis shares his struggle to start over in Madrid: "It was that or die in Cuba."

They are picking up homeless individuals during an operation portrayed as "sanitation" in Havana

Bruno Rodríguez travels to China as a "special envoy" of the Cuban regime in search of assistance

Cubana questions the National Assembly and raises a question that unsettles those in power

"What future?": criticisms of Díaz-Canel for his message about the fate of Cuba

Born too soon, but she didn’t give up: the story of Mía after 90 days fighting for her life in Camagüey

"In Cuba, there is food; what there isn't is money": Cuban woman shows what she bought with 20,000 pesos and stuns with the prices

"That has to change": Rubio warns about the consequences of instability in Cuba

Trump compares the ideology of the Cuban regime to that of the Democrats: "Cuba is collapsing."

A tricycle with solar panels is being used by a Cuban official to challenge the U.S.: "They still believe they can defeat us."

The Central Bank of Cuba celebrates the nomination of its 5,000 peso banknote for the 2026 Banknote of the Year award

"I’m Hungry": Cuban parodies the viral hit by Bulin 47 and reflects on the crisis in Cuba

Five pounds of rice for free, sugar and peas for payment: the assistance that vulnerable families are still waiting for

Faith Among Ruins: Cuban Priest Celebrates Mass in a Deteriorated Church in Havana

Ana Hurtado criticizes the cleanup initiative in El Vedado promoted by the Norwegian embassy

Young poet dedicates harsh verses to the dollar's price in Cuba: "And who helps it rise?"

Cuban regime concedes tourist facilities to private businesses: Campismo Punta de Ganado hikes its prices

"Hunger, the Man, and the Little Dog": Cuban Professor Denounces the "Vicious Circle of Inequality"

"The size is to do," promotes the UJC on billboards: "The size is for them to leave," respond the networks

Health Directorate in Matanzas dispels rumors about deaths in Jagüey Grande

The present is in ruins, but the Cuban state remains stuck in the past... of the October Revolution

Ulises Toirac "dusts off" an unexpected episode that marked his wedding in 1994: "For less than this, I would divorce."

"Cuba, hunger, misery, blackout": elderly woman "updates" the Literacy Anthem

"We are not to blame for the system's shortcomings": Cuban nurse demands respect after the death of a colleague

Where are the people? The silence of the streets is surprising for those returning to Manzanillo

Díaz-Canel invokes the "new man" of Che while asserting the Communist Party's control over the banking sector

Pope Leo XIV appoints Juan Gabriel Díaz Ruiz as the new archbishop of Santiago de Cuba

Paying over 700 pesos an hour to work: private coworking spaces are multiplying in Havana as a refuge from blackouts

The Cuban regime celebrates the "lame duck" Trump: What if waiting another two years turns out to be its worst bet?

The banking paradox of Díaz-Canel: Private actors, financial reforms, and an increasingly devalued Cuban peso

A Cuban ironically denounces a huge garbage dump in Havana: "I don't know what will become of me and my neighbors when..."

Recovery or patch? Havana incorporates 20 repaired buses amid the collapse of public transportation

Cuban family transports coffin in an oxen-drawn cart amid the collapse of funeral services

Despite the supposed price control, local rice reaches 480 pesos per pound in Placetas, Villa Clara

U.S. public radio depicts today's Cuba: an NPR correspondent encounters a community worn out by blackouts and fuel shortages

Even maintaining hygiene is a luxury in Cuba: 600 pesos for a bar of soap in Placetas, Villa Clara

The Cuban peso continues to lose ground: the euro reaches 1,010 pesos and the dollar hits 933

"Welcome to the cheapest funeral in the world": a foreign tourist captures the emptiness of Latin America and the agony of Cuban baseball

Varadero Airport opens bidding for office and pharmacy space

“They have become anachronistic objects”: ATMs in Cuba, caught between power outages and banking collapse

Tomatoes at a thousand pesos per pound and onions at fifteen hundred: offers from a small vendor spark laughter in Santiago de Cuba

Farewell to the Cuban journalist and researcher Víctor Pérez-Galdós Ortiz

Italian press portrays contemporary Cuba: "Now this looks like hell"

A Cuban woman sparks laughter on social media with her remark: "If I catch the stork that brought me to Cuba..."

Neighbors in a rural community in Alquízar have been without electricity for 46 days

Will the Democratic Congress curb Trump's pressure on Cuba? Historian analyzes the scenarios

Canadian agency goes from selling $389,000 to just $24,000 in trips to Cuba

How much is the dollar worth today on the black market in Cuba? Here's how the currencies stand

Cubans react to the opening of a dairy farm in Chambas: "Now they will finally provide the promised glass of milk."

Cuba is experiencing a critical shortage of foreign currency, according to recent economic analysis

Belarus sends 30 tons of powdered milk to children's hospitals in Havana

"The Price of Prices": A photographer from Pinar reflects on the unstoppable rise of the dollar

"The war is not of the entire people, the war belongs to you": Cubans respond to Díaz-Canel on National Defense Day

A Cartier watch or candy? The innocence of some Cuban children who captured hearts

Chequera is infected with the "virus" from the Electric Company: "I can't stand it."

Díaz-Canel calls for defense structures to resolve everyday issues in communities

Cuba in ruins and the Party presents 23 volumes of "selected works" by Fidel Castro

Russian press: the Duma acknowledges that Cuba "barely matters for fuel" since August and is preparing a call to the UN against the embargo

They report exposed bones, open vaults, and neglect in the Cárdenas cemetery