Crisis of the sugar industry in Cuba

Las Tunas sets a target of 38,000 tons of sugar for the upcoming harvest following the failure of the previous one

Paradoxes of "development" without supplies: Matanzas prepares candy factory while sugar is lacking for the basic grocery basket

Energy crisis forces postponement of the start of the sugar harvest in Villa Clara and threatens the sugar supply in the basic food basket

Cuba and Venezuela: Two Dictatorships in Freefall

Díaz-Canel congratulates the sugar industry in a country without sugar: "Another achievement of socialism."

Holguín produced less than ten percent of its sugar plan in the recent harvest

Artemisa plants less than half of the planned sugarcane, and sugar prices continue to rise

Díaz-Canel seeks help from China to reactivate the sugar industry

Díaz-Canel reprimands Cuban agricultural producers: "It's not a lack of resources, it's a lack of will."

The regime calls for "voluntary work" after the worst sugar harvest in over a century

Sugar production in Cuba falls to its lowest level in over 100 years

Without power, without pay, and without sugar harvest! Total crisis at a sugar mill in Ciego de Ávila

Industry destroyed and aimless: Cuba can no longer sustain its own development, warns expert

Central Antonio Guiteras de Las Tunas produced only 16% of the sugar plan

Between illusion and inefficiency, Villa Clara has failed to meet its sugar production targets since 2019

Granma ends a bitter harvest with only 27% of the expected sugar

Camagüey produced only 4,000 tons of sugar in the recent harvest

With less than 3,000 tons, the harvest in Guantánamo barely exceeds 38% of the planned target

Granma's sugar harvest in crisis: only 26% of the plan achieved and million-dollar losses

Cuba records the lowest sugar production since the 19th century

Cuban sugar harvest of 2025 confirms structural collapse of a once-strategic sector

Crisis in the industry: Cuba shows the lowest production in 40 years

Crisis in the sugar harvest in Santiago de Cuba: the Dos Ríos mill barely reaches 13 percent of the plan

Sugar-free, but with pabellón at ExpoCuba: The paradox of the Cuban sugar industry

They are monitoring water quality following an alert for fecal contamination in the supply source in Matanzas

What did the Minister of Food Industry say at the National Assembly?

Cuba projects a 1% GDP growth in 2025 despite the economic crisis

Cuba sends experts to Guyana to improve sugarcane planting as its sugar industry collapses

Minister of the Food Industry of Cuba: “We have the capacity to produce, but there are no raw materials.”

Sugar reaches 550 pesos per pound in Santiago de Cuba: "It's a luxury to have a spoonful."

Cubans use instant soft drinks as a substitute for sugar: Another example of "resilience."

Sugar crisis in Cuba: Only 15 mills will operate in the upcoming harvest

The Never-Ending Story: The Cuban Government Insists on Reviving Sugar Cane Cultivation and Food Production

The price of sugar reaches 500 pesos in Cuba: "I don’t feel like it."

Crime in Las Tunas increases by 8% so far in 2024

Communist leader urges Cubans to continue resisting

Two tons of sugar are stolen from a plant in Artemisa

There is no sugar in Cienfuegos despite having exceeded the production plan

Cuban woman raises bees due to the lack of sugar in Guantánamo

The government warns of difficulties in the distribution of regulated sugar due to deficiencies in the harvest

Amidst the crisis in the sugar industry, the government is holding a manual sugarcane cutting competition in Granma

Cuba without sugar: "How do we sweeten our children's milk?"

Cuban government confirms delivery of sugar with iron particles in warehouses

A Cuban woman passes a magnet over the brown sugar and captures pieces of what appears to be iron

Cuba experienced the worst sugar harvest in the last 125 years

Cuban students gift a "central" to Díaz-Canel

Only half of the sugar mills are currently operating during the sugar harvest in Cuba

Even the scrap metal is rising in price in Cuba

Russia and Belarus will support the sugar harvest in Cuba with machinery and loans

Crisis in the sugar industry in Cuba: Only 25 mills will operate in the upcoming harvest

Cuban government reduces the basic basket by one pound of sugar

The Cuban state-owned company packages soft drinks in transparent nylon bags due to a lack of raw materials

Neighbors protest at Gibara store: "It's the same every month."

Author of cane field burning in Sancti Spíritus sentenced to 15 years in prison

Twelve Cubans sanctioned for stealing sugar at a mill in Matanzas

Amid the shortage of national soft drinks, a zero-calorie line has been introduced

Two Cubans arrested for stealing sugar from a mill in Villa Clara

Cuban arrested for buying 80 pounds of sugar in Camagüey

Sancti Spíritus without sugar to produce malts and craft beers

Break in drainage of sugar company floods homes of about 400 residents in Holguín