Poverty

In less than 24 hours: Help arrives for elderly Cubans in extreme poverty

Homeless individuals and sewage: a scene of abandonment in El Vedado

Father Alberto Reyes: "We cannot wait for things to change on their own."

Bishop and clergy of the Episcopal Church of Cuba break the silence: they denounce hunger, blackouts, and support Ana Bensi in a letter to the Cuban people

Analyst claims that in Cuba, the dead are buried in mass graves due to a lack of coffins

Jon Lee Anderson, in Italy: Cuba is experiencing a crisis "perhaps worse than in the 90s" and 20% of the population has already left

Santiago de Cuba redefines who is vulnerable, while the State distributes "the little" that is available

Jonathan, a Cuban with visual impairments, was attacked while selling bread on his bicycle to make a living

With a whistle and uphill: bread vendor in Santiago de Cuba

Urgent help is requested for a 75-year-old woman who is caring for her daughter with cerebral palsy alone in Camagüey

Changes to the Food Stamp program starting in October

When the body becomes currency

"The vulnerable in Cuba are no longer segments ... they are the majority of the people," warns an academic

Aymée Nuviola wonders what else needs to happen in Cuba for enough to be enough

Cuban writer demands public information on the "millionaire compatriots of socialism."

Charitable project gives money to Cuban grandmother and her granddaughter with cerebral palsy, and will seek more donations

Fifty peso bills were thrown in a Santiago conga... and the music stopped

The harsh reality of retired seniors in Cuba: "I didn't even have enough to buy today's rice."

Get up, fight, and don’t mourn any longer!

The harsh reality of a retiree in Cuba: Working at 77 years old to be able to eat

Cuba redefines its social protection model: Who will now receive assistance from the State?

Help is being requested for a Cuban mother and her three children living in extreme poverty in Holguín

Cuba, in the basement of the global economy

11-year-old Cuban boy works collecting cans to help his mother: "Please, help me."

Amir Valle: Cuba, "a private estate of the Castros," "where people are dying of hunger."

Cuban to content creators: "You are not romanticizing poverty. It exists. It is here."

Díaz-Canel insists that the measures are not due to pressure from the U.S. nor will they forget the poor

Arturo Sandoval loses hope of returning to Cuba: "It's a wound that never heals."

A mother with leukemia and her son are living in misery in Las Tunas while the regime ignores them

Anna Bensi: The Cuban dictatorship sells us "backwardness as heroism"

The Castro power group is the "main culprit for the national ruin," claims a Cuban academic

"We Have to Resist": What an Elderly Woman Does to Survive the Crisis in Cuba

"The failure of the revolution is an undeniable fact," opines a Chilean journalist knowledgeable about Cuba

"Cuba needs international humanitarian intervention," claims prominent demographer

Yoani Sánchez: Those Who Return to Cuba and the Country That No Longer Exists

"There is a war in Cuba": Armed state against an unarmed people, according to analyst Juan Antonio Blanco

"Mercenary is one who fights without a soul": controversial letter from a Cuban in the Russian army

Marco Rubio: "Cuba should not be a poor country."

"May our mothers never again die in solitude and sadness," demands a Cuban professor and jurist

Cayo La Rosa: The Cuban town that had a factory, airport, and hospital, and today lives in oblivion

The "revolution" and the cult of Fidel: "The most refined scam produced by 20th century Latin America," analyzes a Cuban academic

Help requested for girl in Cuba showing signs of severe malnutrition

Ferrer responds harshly to German chancellor who rejects military intervention in Cuba

Almost 9 out of 10 Cubans have to "make do" to avoid going hungry, according to a survey

Milagros, a retired Cuban nurse, is pleading for help to rebuild her dilapidated house

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

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

They celebrate the birthday of Cuban poetess Isabel Mendoza, who survives in poverty

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

Food wastage at a Cuban hotel while the population faces shortages and blackouts

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

“It’s not enough to just endure”: Father Alberto Reyes reminds us that life is more than mere survival

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

"Did you eat yet?": Young Cuban offers lunch to elderly in need on the streets of Havana

"Those without dinner, come on in": 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 respond: "Every day is more misery."

Holguin poet dies after living on the streets

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

Michel "no edge" Torres and the false epic of the blackout

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