Poverty

"Whoever doesn't have dinner, come in": Neighbors in Mulgoba open their doors so that no one goes hungry on Christmas Eve

"Each day of the Revolution is a victory," says the power, and the people reply: "Every day there is more misery."

Holguin poet dies after living on the streets

"My nation is mortally wounded": Heartbreaking cry for help from writer Wendy Guerra in the face of Cuba's collapse

Michel "Blunt" Torres and the false epic of the blackout

Cubans respond to Gerardo Hernández: “The U.S. may not be paradise, but Cuba is hell.”

Gerardo Hernández: "The haters portray 'the Yuma' as the earthly paradise"

Ulises Toirac to the government of Cuba: "The future cannot be after we die."

Family left on the street after fire in Santiago de Cuba

Cubans collect expired beer cans thrown in the trash in Havana

The Cuban regime seeks to strengthen its ties with the Spanish government

Manuel Marrero continues his tour of shelters for the homeless in Cuba

Eating ice cream, always having coffee and milk, or enjoying fried chicken: the unattainable luxuries of senior citizens in Cuba

Trump demands immediate eviction of homeless people: "They have to leave now"

Mother and her two children lose everything in a fire in Guantánamo: They only have the clothes they were wearing

Family sleeps under a platform and survives on leftovers at the agricultural fair in Matanzas

Marrero visits "street dwellers" in Ciego de Ávila following the scandal involving the Minister of Labor

Social promises without funding: the reality of care for impoverished individuals in Las Tunas

Center opens to accommodate "vagrants" in Villa Clara

"Invisible" people in Matanzas: the government hides poverty and abandonment under the rug of euphemisms

The former Minister of Labor and Social Security of Cuba disappears even from X

Cuban elderly man with a disability surprises by exchanging art for food

Yordenis Ugás following the resignation of the Minister of Labor: "Canel, Marrero, Lazo, and the entire Communist Party should also resign."

Marrero speaks about the resignation of the Minister of Labor and Social Security: "She was brave."

Minister details in figures the deep crisis of the Cuban food industry and announces measures

Díaz-Canel acknowledges during a parliamentary session that there are street vendors in Cuba and criticizes the minister's "superficial" judgments

Ulises Toirac lashes out at the minister and declares himself a “beggar”: These are his arguments

Silence at the Ministry of Labor and Social Security following controversial statements by the minister about beggars

Luis Alberto García reveals what is most concerning about the minister's intervention regarding the homeless in Cuba

Díaz-Canel comments on statements by the Minister of Labor and Social Security regarding begging in Cuba

New Trump law jeopardizes Medicaid and SNAP beneficiaries: Here's what changes

Cubans sentenced in the U.S. for attempted marijuana theft: The reasons behind the crime

They are asking for help for a Cuban mother with a disability: "Her house is barely standing."

The heartbreaking scene between a Cuban mother and her young son that has gone viral

Díaz-Canel acknowledges child labor and begging in Cuba after years of official denial

They are seeking help for a 12-year-old Cuban girl and her grandmother in the U.S.: This is their dramatic situation

From Abandonment to Propaganda: Cuba Celebrates as an Achievement the Rescue of Its Own Beggars

Cuban boxer Félix Lemus denounces government neglect: "No one cares about me, and they don't even know where I am."

Cuban man distributes food to those in need on the streets of Miami: "May God multiply the good you do."

Does anyone know her? A Cuban woman on the streets of Miami has been without news of her family for years

Elderly woman in Guantánamo lives with a plague of mice in her home

Economist calculates the monthly cost of basic food for two people in Cuba: The result is dramatic

Doctor Francisco Durán talks about the increase of "buzos" on the streets of Cuba

The reaction of a group of Cubans following the arrest of a street vendor in Havana

Leonardo Padura on Havana: "Marginalization, violence, poverty, and inequality have increased."

Blunt but envious: The official obsession with punishing others' prosperity

An elderly man is found dead in the middle of the street in Havana

Cuban woman with twins faces homelessness in Miami and desperately asks for help

Cuban living under a bridge in Miami expresses gratitude for community support: "I'm doing well."

“On the coast, there’s always food”: Homeless Cuban shares how he survives in Cienfuegos

Solidarity in Holguín: Cubans donate housing to a mother in extreme poverty

"One-Way Ticket to Cuba": Milei recalls his response to a journalist defending the regime

Poverty is declining in Latin America, but inequality persists, says CEPAL

Canada donates $400,000 to support communities in Guantánamo affected by the hurricane

More than 39% of Cuban retirees survive on minimal pensions

Cuban mother sells alongside her daughter on a street in Camagüey

Díaz-Canel promises that Cuba will overcome the economic crisis: “We will prevail”

Sick elderly man sleeps outdoors in Cienfuegos

A Cuban tells two tourists about the situation in the country: "Here people even eat cats."

Cuban denounces the misery in Havana: "Poverty is reflected in the streets and in the people."