Poverty in Cuba

"If there is no wealth, there is no social justice": Díaz-Canel's new economic thesis to save socialism

What changed in Havana after the fall of Nicolás Maduro?

The Granma government admits that it does not have enough money to pay more than 111,000 retirees

Children in tattered clothes sell bananas in Las Tunas, sparking controversy

The harrowing testimony of a Cuban: "I don’t know where this people draws its strength from."

Colombian actor reveals the side that doesn't appear in Cuba's tourist postcards: "This political model has failed."

Cubans line up at a bank in El Cotorro amidst puddles of sewage water

"The Revolution lives on, despite its undertakers," says an official spokesperson in support of Díaz-Canel

Tourism in Fidel Castro Mode: Proposal from the Chilean-Cuban Institute of Culture and Havanatur

Amputee Cuban man claims he survives thanks to his neighbors: "I'm crying out of despair."

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

"Everything feels like a curfew": Cuban denounces shortages and exorbitant prices at a fair

“Selfless president, with a gaunt face and heroic thinness”: the panegyric to Díaz-Canel circulating on social media

Cáritas Camagüey establishes a dining facility to assist homeless individuals

They report a deplorable situation at the Camagüey Elderly Home

Cubana makes lunch with banana because there is no rice available

What did Díaz-Canel say about the change in Cuba?

Alberto Reyes: "It cannot be normal to live in survival mode, with constant exhaustion and dreams eternally shelved."

Cuban in Spain erupts against those living on the island: “Many here go without food to help their families in Cuba.”

At just 10 years old, a Cuban boy goes out to sell coconut candies on the street to help his family: "This hasn't been seen in Cuba for years."

Jorge de Armas rejects labels for Cuban migrants: "Hunger is as political as repression."

Cuban intellectual: "There are people who die of starvation. It is about the right to stay alive."

The Cuban regime claims it is working to build "a different reality."

"I don't want to resist, I want to live": mother of Cuban activist Anna Bensi rejects the romanticization of poverty imposed by the regime

"We have to resist": What an elderly woman does to survive the crisis in Cuba

"No power has the right to keep us in this agonizing misery": Alberto Reyes says that Cuba is a concentration camp

The regime that emerged in 1959 attempted to "dismantle the entire republican civilization and its historical-cultural memory," says a Cuban academic

The percussion of discontent: the clattering of pots as the soundtrack of frustration in Cuba

Cuba: "The dictatorship’s war against its people has devastated the country."

The sale of trash in Cuba: "All of this is recycled and people want it"

Cubans need about 96,000 pesos to cover basic needs each month, according to an economist

Korean rice and UN meat: The food for thousands of Cubans arrives through donations

23-year-old Cuban seeks help for surgery: The hospital has neither adhesive bandages nor supplies

Cuban mother with three children survives in an uninhabitable dwelling abandoned by the State

The problem with Cubadebate is not CiberCuba: it's Marco Rubio

Cubana questions the normalization of misery on the island: "Do you think it’s normal to live by swatting flies?"

Cuban grandfather: "Surviving, eating, is now a luxury."

Díaz-Canel celebrates Cuban children as a "treasure" while they grow up amid shortages and blackouts

From rice to mashed root vegetables: how some Cubans are adapting to the food crisis

Enrique del Risco: "The only achievement... of the so-called Cuban Revolution is the mere existence of the regime."

"The failure of the revolution is an undeniable fact," says a Chilean journalist familiar with Cuba

"Cuba needs international humanitarian intervention," asserts a prominent demographer

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

"Being prosperous is the only way to be good": Ulises Aquino advocates for economic freedom in opposition to the state's model of the regime in Cuba

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

"The Cuban nation is dying": Juan Antonio Blanco denounces crisis

Fainting and people going without food: Bishop denounces crisis in Cuba

A Cuban elderly woman receives assistance and shows her refrigerator: "I have the cold at Blanco and Trocadero."

Why is GAESA one of the major contributors to hunger in Cuba?

Cubana: "We have no dreams, rights, or hopes."

Cubans explode with Díaz-Canel: "We are like the poorest people in Africa."

Cuban woman stands up to Second Front Government: "I had nothing to feed my children."

World Food Programme delivers 106 tons of canned meat to Villa Clara

"I can't take it anymore": the lament of a Cuban mother

Content creator refuses to promote food combos for Cuba: "People here can't afford that."

Cuba regulates the socioeconomic assessment of families applying for financing to repair their homes

Trump's message to Cubans on Independence Day: "The U.S. will not rest until Cuba is free again."

The average salary in Cuba loses more than 20% of its value in a year despite official increases

"His smile says it all": a boy in Sancti Spíritus touches hearts by donating clothes to vulnerable children

Daniel Noboa on Cuba: "We cannot just sit back while people are starving."