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"Hunger is a reality in Cuba": Economist criticizes the official program "Cuadrando la Caja"

Cubans react to the "Don't eat potatoes or rice" suggestion made on national television

Cuban government releases budget for 2026: How much is it in USD according to the "floating" rate?

The Hydra of Distortions: The regime "has decided to plan for more distortions," according to a Cuban economist

Impossible Christmas! That's how prices for rice, chicken, and pork are in Cuban markets

Cuban professor questions the central bank's floating exchange rate due to lack of real data

La Crema releases a new song about the "floating rate."

Cuban government implements a "decentralized" salary system for state-owned enterprises: What does it mean?

The government conceals an agricultural crisis worse than the Special Period with propaganda, warns Cuban economist

Ulises Toirac criticizes the economic barriers that inflate the prices of basic products: Salt costs as if it came from the Himalayas

Cuban lawmaker defends small and medium-sized enterprises and dreams of returning to the productivity levels of pre-revolution times

Cuban regime sets world record for currency devaluation in 2025

Fear, control, and manipulation: The tools of the Cuban regime to impose the official exchange rate

The floating rate of the Cuban government remains unchanged on its second day

Luis Alberto García highlights the misery behind the new rate: "My mother's pension doesn't even cover a carton of eggs."

The best memes about the floating exchange rate in Cuba: humor in times of economic crisis

Can the "currency transformation" save the economy of the Cuban regime?

Cuban regime projects a 1% GDP growth for 2026, triggering a wave of mockery

Blow to entrepreneurship: The Cuban government shuts down dozens of small and medium-sized enterprises

Three Rates and One Lie: Another Twist in Economic Control in Cuba

First reaction from El Toque following the government's announcement of the "floating" rate

"Who really works for the CIA?" Ulises Toirac mocks the Government's new tax rate

The new currency policy of the regime explained plainly... and why only GAESA benefits

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

Here is the new official rate at CADECA: See the differences with that of El Toque

Cuban economist denounces that the new official rate is designed to benefit GAESA

Central Bank of Cuba announces new floating exchange rate for currencies: How will it work?

The Cuban regime announces a special appearance following the controversy over the partial dollarization of the economy

Cuba and Haiti, the only two countries in Latin America to experience a decline in GDP this year

The extractive economy of exile: How the Cuban regime survives on the money of those fleeing communism

What Díaz-Canel said: Promises of efficiency in a paralyzed and unfree country

With the "ordering" process, Cuba suffered the worst of neoliberalism, but never reaped its benefits

Ulises Toirac mocks the dollarization and monetary chaos in Cuba and proposes the "pesolar."

The foreigner pays for the beer, hands over the dollar, and the benefit goes to the people: The new economic logic of the Cuban minister

Decree-Law 113 consolidates Alejandro Gil's monetary policy and legalizes partial dollarization in Cuba

Minister of Economy on Decree-Law 113 in Cuba: “We do not want to access foreign currency at any cost.”

After the PCC plenary meeting was cut short, the National Assembly is now also reducing its session to just one day and holding it via videoconference

elTOQUE explains why the price of the freely convertible currency in Cuba has skyrocketed

The Cuban government announces a new system for managing, controlling, and allocating foreign currency

Surviving in Cuba costs 50,000 pesos a month, warns economist

Who is governing today in Cuba?

"It costs more than an entire salary! Look at what this Cuban paid for his first pair of expensive shoes in Cuba."

Total instability: The Felton goes offline from the SEN hours after synchronizing

“They have finished with Cuba”: Filmmaker portrays the country destroyed by the regime

Cuban regime promises to "regain control of the dollar" without currency or trust

María Victoria Gil clarifies how Díaz-Canel testified in the trial against Alejandro Gil: “He was not in the room.”

Three ideas about the Cuban economic collapse

"Do it fast, fail fast": The powerful message from the young Cuban who built a business using what was in his backyard

The Cuban regime fears that a downfall of Maduro will accelerate its own economic crisis

Rate of the informal market in the regime's sights: El Toque exposes the poverty and inequality of "dollarized Cuba."

100% of state workers live in extreme poverty in Cuba

Cubana shows her purchase of 23,790 pesos and users react indignant: “It’s not enough for anything.”

The rate of elToque isn't perfect, but where is the alternative?

New Cuban video game revives the Jurassic period: Is it inspired by current events?

OCDH responds to UN rapporteur: "The misery of Cuba is the fault of communism, not foreign sanctions."

Economist questions the new openness to foreign investment: "It does not resolve Cuba's structural risks."

The Cuban government will allow foreign companies to operate directly in foreign currency

Cuban customs detects more than 26,000 fake seals of Cuban cigars sent from the U.S.

The Cuban government will authorize foreign companies to import their own fuel