Special period

Cuba Libre: history, revolution, and flavor

  • CiberCuba Writing

Fear changed sides 30 years ago.

  • Iván León

Spanish recounts his trip to Cuba in 1992: The Cubans sympathized with the Spanish crisis, while they could barely acquire food.

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Cuba produces less milk today than during the Special Period.

  • Iván León

Worse than the Special Period: The opinion of many Cubans on the Island

  • CiberCuba Writing

Cuban "invents" the congrí without beans painted with guava leaves

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Cubans respond: "What is the most difficult thing you have had to live through?"

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

MININT states that the Maleconazo was a "victory" for Fidel and the Cubans respond.

  • CiberCuba Writing

Héctor Noas recalls the premiere of the adventure "Shiralad"

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Leonardo Padura: "It is unfair to label women as immoral for engaging in prostitution."

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Cuban musician Edesio Alejandro asserts that he turned down millions of dollars to not stay in the U.S.

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Authorities in Sancti Spíritus defend the use of cassava and pumpkin flours in baking.

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Farewell to a master of timba: "May the people dance until they fall apart"

  • CiberCuba Editorial

Cuban scientists create toothpaste with white clay as the main ingredient.

  • CiberCuba Editorial Staff

An American ophthalmologist found the cause that led to 50,000 Cubans losing their vision during the Special Period.

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Scheduled blackouts continue in Cuba.

  • Katia Monteagudo

Díaz-Canel: "We overcame the Special Period and we will also overcome this moment."

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Cuban: The future of my country is like the dim light of a gossip with a lot of smoke.

  • CiberCuba Writing

Five-hour blackouts in Sancti Spíritus: “Breakdowns, maintenance, and now investments… how much longer?” users ask.

  • Katia Monteagudo

The Cuban government does not give up on the national economy growing by 6% this year.

  • Tania Costa

HUMOR: They release Cuban video game Special Period II, The Repression

  • Redaction of CiberCuba

Monumental lines to buy gasoline in Holguín

  • Tania Costa

Ulises Toirac remembers the Cuban mothers who lost their children in the war or at sea.

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

A Cuban woman with several illnesses recounts the problems of buying diet milk at the store.

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Cuba of guts and without heart

  • Zoé Valdés

Three essential recipes in Cuba during times of scarcity

  • José Roberto Loo Vázquez

The resellers of El Paraíso

  • Tania Costa

"I imagine myself in another country that is not Cuba: everything will be harmony and prosperity."

  • Tania Costa

Cuban government distributes agriculture manual for the population to produce their own food.

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team

Cubans collect spilled detergent in the middle of the street in Havana.

  • CiberCuba Editorial Team