Shortages in Cuba

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

Díaz-Canel calls for a "change of mindset" as a solution to the crisis in Cuba

"My heart remains in Cuba": the moving testimony of a Cuban woman in Mexico about the harsh reality facing the island

The Cuban regime admits that 2026 will be a difficult year: "We are living in a wartime economy."

Are we ready to be free?

Havana sinks amid ruins and trash: Harsh images reveal the abandonment of the Cuban capital

Díaz-Canel asks militants to "be at the forefront in solving problems," and Cubans respond: "The problems of Cuba are you."

"Cuba is not full of life, it is full of hunger and misery": Critics slam Russian influencer for her Havana video

Cuba bets on plant extracts amid the crisis of the Cuban pharmaceutical industry

Actor Ray Cruz laments the state of the Carlos III shopping center: "It has made me sad to see this store like this."

Fifty years without seeing a supermarket: The excitement of a Cuban experiencing capitalism for the first time

This is how the regime is managing the energy crisis: More blackouts for Cubans while “everything remains the same” for Canadian tourists

"The Beggar Regime": Cubans react to new rice donation from China

A U.S. president already visited Cuba in 2016: why not in 2026?

Canada urges its citizens traveling to Cuba to exercise "extreme caution."

The Cuban regime is rehearsing the "war of the entire people" and staging its bellicose theater amid the national polycrisis

Unbelievable! Cuban woman shows what she bought with 4,500 pesos: "This is what a doctor earns in Cuba."

This is just an ordinary Sunday for a doctor in Cuba: "We live by getting lunch ready in advance."

"I come from having nothing": Cuban shows his house in Cuba and triggers a avalanche of reactions

The Cuban government denies rumors about the end of the customs exemption for food and medicines

Mike Hammer: "I can't disclose details, but the Cuban regime will have to choose."

The excitement of a Cuban woman visiting a Walmart for the first time: "This place didn't make me happy."

"There is no fuel for ambulances, but there is for war": Cubans react to the preparation of the Western Army

“We don't eat fear”: Former Cuban ambassador to the U.S. challenges Trump’s warnings

"We came to see the little that remains... but this will soon change": Cuban in Germany after visiting her family in Cuba

The MINFAR warns that "the price will be very high" for any aggressor attempting to invade Cuba

Cuban artist to young people used for repression: “You are not the shield of the Revolution, you are the shield of generals who invest in hotels.”

Cuba is practicing the "war of the entire people," while the U.S. is training its marines

"That no longer exists": Marco Rubio on the donors who supported Cuba for decades

"Change the Importing Mindset": Díaz-Canel's New Recipe in the Midst of Crisis

Sandro Castro makes his most direct mockery of Díaz-Canel at the regime's most vulnerable moment

Trump promises to help Cubans in the U.S. who suffered under the Castro regime

Díaz-Canel acknowledges lack of unity in the Communist Party

Father Alberto Reyes: “We leave behind a year marked by signs of death.”

Marrero calls for "finding a different way to face" 2026 after a year of "efforts," but with no visible results

Cuban finance expert links the absence of a free market to the social collapse in Cuba

Díaz-Canel invokes "67 years of creative resistance," and Cubans label him as cynical: "There is nothing to celebrate," they respond

Data contradicts the narrative: Cuba produced rice and potatoes for decades and today barely guarantees them

Cuban peasants roast a rodent for dinner on New Year's Eve

Díaz-Canel says that "the new year in Cuba is synonymous with triumph."

"I never said that the rice and potatoes should be taken away from the people": Roberto Caballero breaks his silence after criticism

"Tenderness Alert": Triplets and twins born at González Coro Hospital in Havana

Luis Alberto García mocks the official discourse on the "Cubaness" of foods like rice and potatoes

Economist refutes the narrative of "excessive consumption" of rice in Cuba and presents the historic decline in the cereal's supply

Poverty without makeup: hunger drives the poorest to the trash in the heart of Santiago de Cuba

The host of "Cuadrando la caja" labels as "worms" those who criticize the official suggestion not to eat rice or potatoes

Jorge Díaz mocks the state’s discourse that blames Cubans for eating rice and potatoes

Ulises Toirac erupts against the official call to stop eating rice and potatoes: "People in this country do not choose what they are going to eat."

Cubans react to the "Do not eat potatoes or rice" suggestion on national television

They report chaotic sales and corruption at the liquefied gas station in Micro 7, Santiago de Cuba

“There is no economy for a national solution”: state television admits there is no national way out of the agricultural crisis in Cuba

"Freedom and total change": Cubans express frustration and demand real transformations for 2026

Russia and Cuba establish their first joint biopharmaceutical company

Caracas, the oxygen tank of Havana: what would happen in Cuba if Maduro falls?

Cuban actress Maikel Amelia urges to "live with more love amidst the systemic chaos" that suffocates Cuba

The government is concealing an agricultural crisis worse than that of the Special Period with propaganda, warns Cuban economist

“Christmas came early”: Cuban woman sends a refrigerator to her dad in Cuba, and his reaction brings everyone to tears

Cuban regime projects a 1% growth in GDP for 2026, sparking a wave of ridicule

Poverty or material deprivation?: The new euphemism of the Cuban regime to deny the social dimension of the crisis

It's impossible not to get emotional! He gifted new sneakers to all the children in his daughter's classroom in Cuba

What will Cubans have for dinner on Christmas and New Year's Eve? "MDM picadillo, sausage, eggs... and even lemonade."