Crisis of the Sugar Industry in Cuba

Paradoxes of "development" without resources: Matanzas prepares a candy factory while there is a shortage of sugar for the basic basket

Energy crisis forces postponement of the sugar harvest in Villa Clara and jeopardizes sugar in the basic food basket

Cuba and Venezuela: Two Dictatorships in Free Fall

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 China's help to reactivate the sugar industry

Díaz-Canel scolds Cuban agricultural producers: “It’s not a lack of resources, it’s a lack of will.”

The regime appeals to "voluntary work" after the worst sugar harvest in over a century

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

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

Destroyed and aimless industry: 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 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 goal

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

Cuba records its lowest sugar production since the 19th century

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

Industry Crisis: Cuba Shows Lowest Production in 40 Years

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

Without sugar, but with pabellón at ExpoCuba: The paradox of the Cuban sugar industry

They are monitoring water quality following an alert regarding fecal contamination in a 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, while its sugar industry is struggling

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: Cuban Government Insists on Reviving Sugar Cane Cultivation and Food Production

The price of a pound 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 were stolen from a mill in Artemisa

There is no sugar in Cienfuegos despite exceeding the production plan

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

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

In the midst of the sugar industry crisis, the government is holding a manual cane 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 runs a magnet over the dark sugar and captures pieces of what appears to be iron

Cuba had the worst sugar harvest in the last 125 years

Cuban students give a "central" to Díaz-Canel

Only half of the sugar mills are operating in the current harvest in Cuba

Even the scraping rises in price in Cuba

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

Crisis of the sugar industry in Cuba: Only 25 mills will operate in the upcoming harvesting season

Cuban government removes one pound of sugar from the basic basket

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

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

The author of the burning of sugarcane fields in Sancti Spíritus has been sentenced to 15 years in prison

Twelve Cubans sanctioned for stealing sugar at a central facility in Matanzas

In the midst of the scarcity of national soft drinks, they are introducing a zero-calorie line

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

Cuban man arrested for buying 80 pounds of sugar in Camagüey

Sancti Spíritus without sugar for producing malts and craft beers

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

Cuba is heading towards the worst sugar harvest in over a century