Poverty in Cuba

Cuban priest: "We cannot feed an entire population. This mission exceeds us."

The crab says it hurts him that Cubans do not live like he does

"You have stolen wealth from us for 67 years": Cubans explode against Díaz-Canel

Protest in Mantilla: More than two months without water, "a small tank... costs 2,500 pesos; a water truck, 40,000"

Increase in the price of bread in Havana sparks criticism for its impact on impoverished individuals and families

Sandro Castro sends a message to Marco Rubio: in his infinite kindness, he wants to help distribute the 100 million

Cuban photographer and entrepreneur: "No community deserves to have to reinvent itself every 24 hours."

From the "New Man" to the "Dead Man" in a dark country: the haunting sonnet of a Cuban poet

Roberto Veiga: In Cuba, "there is a lack of strategic action"; "the country is in disarray and needs to be rebuilt."

Ulises Toirac on the conga of Matanzas: "It is evidence of being a failed state in its entirety."

Alina Bárbara López reports arrests of activists while the elderly are collapsing without food or electricity in the middle of summer

Church in Las Tunas feeds 190 vulnerable individuals: "Every day it becomes more difficult to do this."

"I haven't eaten": the testimony that depicts the abandonment of the elderly in Cuba

Cuban Teaches How to Prepare Congrí Without Beans: A Survival Recipe That Highlights the Food Crisis

Cuban to content creators: "They are not romanticizing poverty. It exists. It's real."

Cuban in Miami collects clothes from the trash to send to Cuba: "That solves anyone's problem."

Díaz-Canel makes it clear that the regime's goal is to uphold the Revolution despite the country's deterioration

Cuban father sells power outlets to feed his children

Cuban psychologist, dissatisfied with his life: "I have been deceived."

The "paradise" that Cubans cannot afford: Canadian enjoys Varadero while the country sinks into misery

Sister Nadieska Almeida rejects the regime's 176 measures: "We want new changes, but without you."

Cuban boasts about his house and car in Cuba: "Another achievement in my life."

Alberto Reyes dismantles the regime's reforms: "The solution does not lie in liberating the economy, but in liberating the citizen."

More faith than results: Díaz-Canel concludes the CTC Congress with a call for the "will and deep conviction that we can indeed do it."

Lázaro Bruzón on Díaz-Canel's interventions: "He continues to represent the worst: evil, failure, a burden."

Cuban leader: “If wealth is not generated, we cannot build the just society we want.”

Díaz-Canel insists that the measures are not due to pressures from the U.S. and that they will not forget the poor

Pedro Monreal: "The 176 measures are a 'monster', perhaps more like a deformed hybrid."

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

Spending 3,000 pesos to prepare just one meal in Cuba: This is how prices are!

Outrage in Camagüey: two elderly people live in a collapsed shack without receiving government assistance

What a Spanish woman discovered when she married a Cuban left her speechless

"It’s shameful": Huge line of retirees waiting to cash their checks at a bank in Santiago de Cuba

When hunger outweighs the risk: neighbors collect bad eggs in Boyeros

Rosa María Payá: "GAESA is the dictatorship's safe."

Organization warns about the rise of child labor in Cuba justified as "family support."

Cuban Congressman: "We cannot distribute poverty; we must distribute wealth."

"They're already there and they will grow": Cuban leader acknowledges that economic reforms will increase inequalities

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

Laritza Camacho: "Why do those who advocate for sharing poverty equally become richer and richer?"

"Preserving the essential": Marrero reveals the great contradiction of the Cuban regime

Cuban woman reports 42 hours without electricity or water: "They are robbing us of our lives."

The price of a bag of coal skyrockets in Cuba: "You bought it super cheap."

"‘We want quality of life’: The cry of a Cuban woman who confronted a MININT officer during a protest."

The Cuban regime would be concerned about inequality and injustice

Cuban intellectual: "No measure will be effective... if dignity and rights are not restored first" in Cuba

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

The regime wants private companies to help support pensioners, the elderly, and community kitchens

Díaz-Canel: "We are not renouncing socialism."

"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 torn clothes sell bananas in Las Tunas, sparking controversy

The harsh testimony of a Cuban: "I don't know where this people gets their strength."

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

Cubans wait in line at a bank in El Cotorro amid puddles of sewage water

"The Revolution lives on, much to the dismay of its detractors," says an official spokesperson in support of Díaz-Canel

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

Amputee Cuban man claims he survives thanks to his neighbors: "I am crying out of desperation."

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