Shortages in Cuba

Scarcity and lack of food in Cuba, the ration book, long lines, and restrictions.

Official media claims that the government prioritizes care for vulnerable individuals

Díaz-Canel asserts that the economic transformations aim to "reduce inequalities and expand social justice."

Díaz-Canel speaks of military invulnerability in a country battered by blackouts, scarcity, and lack of water

CBS News documents from Havana the collapse of healthcare and electricity: doctors without medicine and blackouts nearly all day long

A state-run diner in Havana has only served chicken once in 2026, according to its manager

When will there be more food in Cuba? The Deputy Minister of Agriculture says it would be "irresponsible" to give a specific timeline

Russia delivers over 750 tons of oil to Cuba for vulnerable individuals

From Miami and branded! Javier Berridy returns with his Cuban customs officer and the purse he grabbed from a yuma in Miami

The triple Olympic champion from Cuba, Félix Savón, is seen in a trash dump searching for food, and Limay Blanco comes to his aid

Four tablespoons of rice and a little bit of peas: that's what pregnant women eat at the Materno Sur in Santiago de Cuba

"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

Official journalist criticizes the prices of the new Neighborhood Markets: "They should be called Affluent Neighborhood Markets."

Air China cancellations leave Cubans with unexpected expenses, stranded luggage, and undelivered medicines

"The Cuban has shown that he knows how to die": MINFAR dusts off the speech of sacrifice amid the crisis

From Raúl Castro to Miguel Díaz-Canel: The End of the Ration Book and the Future of the Stores in Cuba

Baptist church in Havana provides food, clothing, and household items to the elderly and underprivileged families

A Cuban woman gets emotional receiving food from a follower: "Thanks to her, I can eat them."

Medications are confiscated in Havana and Cubans are asking: "So where do we buy them now?"

A new state store sells beef by-products in Sancti Spíritus, but limits the purchase to two units per product

More than 50 days without water on La Calle Real in Pinar del Río, and a resident is calling for the privatization of the service due to state inefficiency

Images from a dental clinic in Camagüey raise questions about healthcare conditions

Authorities in Santiago de Cuba acknowledge that more than 10% of the population is in a vulnerable situation and announce food assistance programs

Aymée Nuviola against the Cuban regime: "I have never seen people who hate their own people more."

Affordable prices? Cubans react to the neighborhood market in Cienfuegos

Homeless people and sewage water: a scene of abandonment in El Vedado

The Poultry Company of Pinar del Río wants to regain its leadership with the majority of its hens in private hands

Cuban priest Alberto Reyes: "A people begins to regain their freedom when they stop being afraid."

"In the trash, asking for food": Cuban denounces to Miguel Díaz-Canel the increase of poverty in Cuba

Cuban retiree laments having believed in the promises of 1959: "We're worse off."

Cuban in the face of Marrero's promises: "He believes in his delusion that it is possible to deceive another generation of Cubans."

Cuban woman lashes out at Díaz-Canel: "The people need solutions."

Canarias has been unable to send food or medicine to its emigrants in Cuba for over a month

Cuban adolescents share their snack with a needy man

The unusual warning from MINSAP regarding food preservation in Cuba

Ulises Toirac on the crisis in Cuba: "I don't want to get used to a sixth world country."

"Next year": the eternal promise that Cubans no longer believe in

"Completely empty. This is no longer the Carlos III of before": this is how the famous shopping center in Havana looks now

Cuba: "What was once the food of the poor is now a luxury."

Cubans respond to the debate on the market and socialism: "What is there to plan if nothing is produced?"

Leonardo Padura on present-day Cuba upon receiving the Liber Prize: "It has become a daily hell."

Marrero promises five pounds of rice, one pound of sugar, and another pound of grains per month to 883,000 vulnerable Cubans

Cigars in August, beans in September, and nothing in October: Those are the products of a warehouse in Cuba

They are converting private homes into food shelters for vulnerable individuals in Isla de la Juventud

Having a relative abroad would be enough to be excluded from the oil sold to individuals deemed vulnerable at the supermarket in Camagüey

Santiago de Cuba redefines who is vulnerable, while the State distributes "the little" that is available

The Netherlands Foundation sends 11 containers to alleviate health and education shortages in Holguín

"Food in Cuba is no longer within everyone's reach": the harsh reality depicted by a Cuban woman

When the flavor stops being conveyed

What did she miss? Cuban woman shows everything she bought to travel to Cuba with her 20-month-old daughter

Cubana shows how they make guava paste in Cuba, and a detail sparks criticism: "That can't be eaten."

Where is the abundance? Cuban finds only five products in a neighborhood market in Havana

They sold him water instead of oil: fraud reported with allegedly sealed bottle in Santiago de Cuba

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

"Fallen Hands Syndrome": Sister Nadieska Almeida describes the exhaustion experienced by many in Cuba

Cuban warns Díaz-Canel: Reforms to save socialism could lead to "the most ruthless capitalism"

A Cuban woman needs surgery, but she is being asked to obtain even the serum and the catheter: "Where am I supposed to get that?"

"It's sad to see this in Cuba with so many diseases": people rummaging through the trash in Havana

"If it weren't for the neighbors, he would have died of hunger": activist denounces the abandonment of a blind elderly man in Holguín

Family in Matanzas invites vulnerable neighbors to share their table every December

He took his mom to a market in Brazil, and here's how she reacted