Poverty

"I go up to three days without eating": They seek help for a Cuban woman and her son with mental health issues in Holguín

It has been reported that a former boxer, known as "Gloria Deportiva," is living like a beggar in Santiago de Cuba

Cuban poetess Isabel Mendoza celebrates her birthday while living in poverty

Writer Dania Ferro shares the dream of many Cuban emigrants: to return and rebuild the towns of the island

Food waste in Cuban hotel while the population faces shortages and blackouts

Ulises Toirac: "The 'revolution' economy has never been able to stand on its own."

"Not enough to just resist": Father Alberto Reyes reminds us that life is more than just surviving

Cuts in Florida threaten to leave thousands of HIV patients without treatment

"Have you eaten?": Young Cuban gifts lunch to needy elderly on the streets of Havana

"Whoever doesn't have dinner, come on over": Mulgoba neighbors open their doors to ensure no one goes hungry on Christmas Eve

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

A Holguin poet dies after living on the streets

"My nation is fatally wounded": A 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: “La Yuma may not be paradise, but Cuba is hell.”

Gerardo Hernández: "The haters portray 'la 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 is seeking 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 older adults in Cuba

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

Mother and her two children lose everything in a fire in Guantánamo: They were left with nothing but the clothes they were wearing

A 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 surrounding the Minister of Labor

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

They open a center to accommodate "wanderers" in Villa Clara

"‘Invisible’ people in Matanzas: government hides poverty and neglect under the carpet of euphemisms."

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

Elderly Cuban with a disability surprises 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 parliamentary session that there are street dwellers in Cuba and criticizes the "superficial" judgments of 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 remarks by the minister regarding 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 sentenced in the U.S. for attempted marijuana theft: The reasons behind the crime

Help is being requested for a Cuban mother with a disability: "Her house is barely standing."

The heart-wrenching 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 the Achievement of Rescuing Its Own Beggars

Cuban boxer Félix Lemus denounces government neglect: "No one cares about me, nor do they 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 in the streets of Miami has been unaware of her family for years

Elderly woman from 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" 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: "Marginality, 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 asks for help

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

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

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