Poverty

"Whoever doesn't have dinner, come": Mulgoba neighbors 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 brings more misery."

Holguín poet dies after living on the streets

"My nation is mortally wounded": A heart-wrenching cry for help from writer Wendy Guerra amid the collapse of Cuba

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

Cubans respond to Gerardo Hernández: "The Yuma may not be paradise, but Cuba is hell."

Gerardo Hernández: "The haters paint 'la Yuma' as the earthly paradise."

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

Family left homeless 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 centers for the homeless in Cuba

Eating ice cream, always having coffee and milk or eating fried chicken: the unattainable luxuries for older adults in Cuba

Trump demands immediate eviction of homeless individuals: "They have to go now"

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

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

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

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

Center opens to house "vagrants" in Villa Clara

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

The former Minister of Labor and Social Security of Cuba has disappeared to X

Elderly Cuban with a disability stuns by exchanging art for food

Yordenis Ugás after 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 full parliamentary session that there are street dwellers in Cuba and criticizes “superficial” judgments made by the minister

Ulises Toirac lashes out at the minister and declares himself a "beggar": Here 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 speaks out on the statements made by the Minister of Labor and Social Security regarding begging in Cuba

New Trump law puts Medicaid and SNAP beneficiaries at risk: Here's what changes

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

They seek help for a Cuban mother with a disability: "Her house barely holds up."

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

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

Help is being sought 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 the Achievement of Rescuing Its Own Beggars

Cuban boxer Félix Lemus claims government neglect: "Nobody cares about me, and they don't even know where I am."

Cuban 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 in the streets of Miami has been out of touch with 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 discusses the increase of "buzos" in the streets of Cuba

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

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

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

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

Cuban woman with twins faces homelessness in Miami and desperately seeks help

Cuban living under a bridge in Miami thanks the community for their support: "I am doing well."

"On the coast, there's always food": Homeless Cuban shares how he survives in Cienfuegos

Solidarity in Holguín: Cubans donate home to 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, asserts 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 get through this.”

Sick elderly man sleeps outdoors in Cienfuegos

A Cuban shares with two tourists 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."