Embargo on Cuba

Abel Prieto admits that Cuba is experiencing "the most difficult moment of the revolution" and insults the U.S. government.

"And let it come, even if it's tough, crumbled, or stale": the plea for bread from a Cuban poet

The Cuban government admits to more than 70 daily deaths from cancer and blames the embargo for the lack of medications

CBS News reports from Havana on the healthcare and electricity collapse: doctors without medicine and blackouts lasting almost all day

"You are the internal blockade," Cuban citizens respond to Bruno Rodríguez and his promotion of the kite festival against the embargo

"They are alone and isolated": Díaz-Canel strikes out against the U.S. ahead of the UN vote

U.S. official warns that supporting Cuba's resolution at the UN delays the reforms the Island needs

Bruno Rodríguez accuses Marco Rubio of "blackmailing" governments to reduce support for the regime in the UN vote on the embargo

Rubio warns Bukele that the Cuban regime will not make reforms while it believes it has international support

"The blockade bears your name and the surname Castro": Cubans respond to Díaz-Canel after he blamed the U.S. for the lack of food

The Cuban regime denies connections with 90 fuel shipments seized in the U.S.

New York City's advisor met with Díaz-Canel in Cuba and recounted the luxuries of his trip

Babalawo wonders why Cuba has not changed after 67 years of "failed policies."

Díaz-Canel in Mexico: "The blockade against Cuba is a threat to any sovereign state."

Cuban to Díaz-Canel: "Less talk and more food and respect for human rights."

Italian lawmaker blames the U.S. for the crisis in Cuba but remains silent on political prisoners and repression

Cuban diplomat responds to fuel seizure: "It is illegal to harass ships in international waters."

Díaz-Canel acknowledges the shortage of medications in Cuba and once again blames the U.S. embargo.

Pemex did not record any new fuel sales to Cuba between April and June

Vanderbilt Survey: three out of four Cubans blame the regime for the crisis, and nearly six out of ten prefer ties with the U.S. over independence

Raúl Torres sees the "haters" as the ones responsible for an "aging, weakened, impoverished Cuba."

Back in the US..., Back in the USSR!

Bruno Rodríguez accuses Washington of blocking exchanges and private business in Cuba

The Cuban regime blames Trump for hindering its economic reforms

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

The Cuban regime claims at the UN that it is open to trade and business relations with U.S. companies

Bruno Rodríguez blames the U.S. at the UN for the suffering of the Cuban people

Under what logic does a dictatorship hold power for over 66 years in a country?

Bruno Rodríguez calls for a Declaration at the UN that also accuses the Cuban state

Díaz-Canel responds to Trump's remarks at the UN about Cuba

The UNE reports progress in the reconnection of the national electricity grid while blaming the embargo for the blackouts

A Cuban woman expresses her outrage at being unable to vaccinate her granddaughter: "If the polyclinic were privately owned, it would have already been resolved."

Díaz-Canel visits the William Soler Pediatric Cardiocenter, and Cubans are asking, "What do these visits achieve?"

Cuban who confronted French communist leader on television: "As long as I have a voice, I will continue to raise it for my people."

Marco Rubio will accompany Trump at the UN General Assembly

Spanish Congress rejects proposal to defend the Cuban regime before the European Union

Ramón Saúl Sánchez, from the historical exile: "The embargo on Cuba is the biggest shipment they've given us."

Hospital de Las Tunas reports a new outbreak of bedbugs in the psychiatry ward: "It was detected again two days ago."

"Why do we have to live like this?": Cuban questions leaders after more than a week without water in San Agustín Lisa

The discrediting of the Human Rights Council and other UN institutions

Cars from the U.S. continue to enter Cuba: $91 million in seven months

Cuba purchases over $500 million from the U.S. in seven months

Cuban mother denounces unauthorized use of her son's photo in regime propaganda against the embargo

The U.S. warns the Cuban regime: "Look in the mirror of Maduro."

Cuba is dying, and the regime holds the key

Bruno Rodríguez acknowledges that conversations with the U.S. are stalled and explains why

More than 10 days without garbage collection, and the head of the PCC in Ciego de Ávila blames the embargo

Bruno Rodríguez strikes out against Marco Rubio following the new sanctions: "Collective punishment is a crime."

Economic embargo or failed model? BBC analyzes why Cuba is unable to feed its population

Cuba condemns the one-year extension of the United States embargo and describes it as a "genocidal policy."

Trump makes a new decision on Cuba: he extends a key law for sanctions for another year

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: "Cubans do not blame the sanctions; they know that the responsibility lies with the dictatorship."

Díaz-Canel denies the seriousness of the crisis in Cuba: "We are not on the brink of collapse."

Gerardo Hernández uses the news of a power outage in the U.S. to urge people to "stop criticizing everything about Cuba."

"You've won the joke of the year": Regime defender says that Cubans emigrate due to the U.S. embargo.

Miami tax collector to senator: "The Cuban people suffer because of the dictatorship, not because of Trump or Rubio."

The genocide comes from the Palace: Cubans respond to the deputy minister who blames the embargo for the crisis

Does Cuba matter to Trump, or is it just a strategy of attrition?

Socialist economy, nationalizations, and structural crisis in Cuba

A Cuban questions the regime's eternal excuse: "Is not having oil the fault of the blockade?"