Shortages in Cuba

Scarcity and lack of food in Cuba, the supply booklet, the long queues, and the restrictions.

Thousands of Cubans in Tapachula turn to informal networks to send money and food to the island

A 12-story building in Santa Clara has been without electricity or water for nearly 5 days: "How do you carry a bucket of water up 12 floors?"

She surprises her mother at the airport in Cuba: "I was expecting a package, not knowing that the package was me."

From surviving to resigning: Photographer reflects on the "normalization" of the crisis in Cuba

"More than 40 years without knowing what it was": Cuban takes her parents to a supermarket for the first time and this was their reaction

"With 500 pesos, you can't eat here": Cuban woman erupts over not being able to use the "imaginary money" from her card

What I could take to Cuba in the cabin bag: "Everything that weighed me down a lot came with me."

The Wood of Humor: "Grab ladles and cauldrons and join our brigade."

Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba acknowledges the burdens of the people: "There are so many people asking for help. And the help is not enough."

Fuel shortages stifle fishing in Sancti Spíritus and cut catches by half

A package of medication arrived eaten by mice after three months in the warehouses of Correos de Cuba

Three months without water in Colón, Matanzas: residents report an unsustainable crisis and power outages lasting over 72 hours

In the midst of an agricultural crisis, Villa Clara aims to produce its own potato and coffee seeds in the plains

Cuban man reunites with his wife, mother, and sister in Cuba after 3 years: The moment everyone is talking about

Cuba Post justifies delays in package delivery due to fuel shortages

Amidst tears, a Cuban mother experiences her daughter's quinceañera photos in Cuba via video call: "How tough."

Bruno Rodríguez dismisses the humanitarian crisis in Cuba as being comparable to that during the pandemic

A clandestine rum factory in Villa Clara is dismantled, and Cubans explode on social media

"In none of its phases did it improve": Cuban depicts the regression of the rationed bread

"Everything about that tractor is surreal": Cubans amazed by tireless tractor

Cuban Teaches How to Prepare Congrí Without Beans: A Survival Recipe that Highlights the Food Crisis

“Such a lack of respect”: A Cuban woman's harsh venting about the reality her family faces in Cuba

Latinos can't believe how much an egg costs in Cuba: "It's crazy."

Breakdown Leaves Customers of Manufactured Gas in Havana Without Service: What Do We Know?

Cuba and Russia establish the first biotech joint venture: "Unprecedented" agreement, according to state media

“Party, celebration... and misery”: Cubans dismantle the UJC's summer campaign calling to “enjoy and recharge energies.”

The circus doesn't stop: celebrations in the streets for San Juan Camagüeyano while Cuba faces record blackouts

Cuban Leader: “If wealth is not generated, we cannot build the just society we want.”

"I didn't want it to be too much work": She gave up her own plans to surprise her mom with a gift that few can buy in Cuba

Spending 3,000 pesos to prepare just one meal in Cuba: This is how prices are!

Cubans without food while hotels are fully stocked for tourists

Cuban grandfather who makes cages: "Without electricity, I can't see."

Cuban lands in Ecuador with over a thousand colostomy bags and ends up under investigation

Roach infestation reported at Harris Brothers store in Havana

Cubans are making their own bread in response to high street prices: "It's more economical than you think."

It took shape! Cubans dancing in the heart of a neighborhood in Havana: "They took the street for you all."

The chef who fled from Castro's regime achieves the first Michelin star in history for a Cuban restaurant

Cuban woman reports 42 hours without light or water: "They are robbing us of our lives."

"We want quality of life": The plea of a Cuban woman who confronted a MININT officer during a protest

Díaz-Canel reduces the ration book, and Cubans remind him of a reality: “We are all vulnerable, except for you.”

Social assistance in Cuba will be adjusted based on each family's income

"It seems like two different countries": shops in Cuban pesos and in dollars

"Where are we headed?": Cuban in the face of rising food prices

Bakeries in remote areas will receive flour for only five days in the municipality of Pinar del Río

The regime says that Raúl Castro "gives the green light" to transformations in a "transcendental moment"

“‘It is necessary to address the salary issue’: State-run newspaper acknowledges growing discontent among Cuban workers”

The housing crisis facing thousands of Cuban families amidst an unchecked emergency

"There is absolutely nothing": Cubans report 13 days without electricity or water in Puerto Padre

"Inflated information": Cubans lash out at Cubadebate for praising the Family Care System

Details of the new Land Law being prepared by the regime to promote agriculture in Cuba have come to light

Prices in Bayamo: a carton of eggs for 4,000 pesos, a pound of sugar for 400, and oil for 1,500

Panama sends thousands of hosts to Cuba: "Faith unites us beyond any distance."

"Do they produce vaccines but not milk? Cubans to Bruno Rodríguez."

"Sleeping eight hours and drinking cold water": The plea of a Cuban exhausted by the crisis

The Cuban regime insists on promoting a tourist "summer" while the crisis hits families

"Everything feels like a curfew": Cuban denounces shortages and exorbitant prices at a fair

“Selfless president, with a haggard face and heroic thinness”: the panegyric to Díaz-Canel circulating on social media

Ciego de Ávila escalates the crackdown on vendors in the corridors amid the economic crisis

Surprise for his mother in Cuba: he arrived whistling as usual, and the reunion moved thousands

Micro, small, and medium enterprises and street vendors are evicted from the "Los Chinos" market in Holguín