Stripped of prejudices, members of the Cuban-American community in New York decided to support the Democrat, finding few similarities between the 34-year-old Muslim mayor-elect and Fidel Castro
The politician will be the youngest councilman in Florida in one of the US’ most Hispanic cities, where more than 75% of the residents are of Cuban origin
The Manhattan courthouse, where over 1,000 people and recently entire families have been arrested while attending routine appointments, is the epicenter of Trump’s immigration offensive
The largest network of young migrants in the US has launched a fund that aims to raise $30 million to help families of detainees and deportees
The United States is systematically expelling migrants south of the border, as the island refuses to accept them. There’s little certainty about the number of Cubans deported, nor about their status in the country
Government authorities acknowledge that the country is experiencing ‘a very complex situation’ caused by drought and problems with the water system’s infrastructure. Some communities in Eastern Cuba have been without water for about five months
After being incarcerated for two decades in the United States, the Cuban man was released in 2021 — only to be grabbed by ICE and deported last month
Authorities attribute the situation to the hot, rainy months, when the mosquitoes that transmit the virus increase in number. But Cubans say that systemic neglect has led them to this situation
Like dozens of other migrants whom Cuba has not accepted back, Pedro Lorenzo Concepción was expelled from the US to Mexico. A community of newly arrived Cubans is taking shape in the state of Quintana Roo
While the official narrative tries to avoid the word ‘poverty,’ the inequality that the revolutionaries promised to eradicate is increasingly evident
The former Black Panther member, accused 52 years ago of murdering a police officer, was welcomed by Fidel Castro and always considered herself a political prisoner
The controversial statements by the US president put the spotlight on an island lacking more than 400 medicines and where experts believe autism is underreported
The migrant was forced to leave after seven years in the US, during which he was unable to regularize his status. EL PAÍS joined the family in their farewell
The Cuban community, which voted massively for the president in the November elections, is confronting a longstanding tradition of supporting conservative policies
The case of the two Cubans detained since May shows that the Trump administration is limiting access to legitimate refugees as part of its immigration crusade
Some provinces have been without power since the weekend. President Díaz-Canel assures his government is ‘working hard to reconnect the national electricity grid’
A small Iowan town is grappling with the death of a 36-year-old who suffered psychological decline after losing his job due to Trump’s policies and was shot by a police officer
It is presumed that among the nearly 60,000 people in immigration custody, the majority are men, which complicates life for many women who must now deal alone with work that was previously shared
The Zapotec beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been detained by immigration authorities since early August despite her supposed legal protection. Her hearing is scheduled for Wednesday
Be it a grandmother with three decades in the United States, or a Cuban man imprisoned for 17 years: experts say that no matter how much a migrant pays their debt to justice, they will always be marked by their criminal record
Pedro Lorenzo Concepción confirms to EL PAÍS that he continues to refuse food, and that authorities simply transferred him to another detention center in Florida this weekend
Although Trump declared before returning to the White House that he intended for them to be able to ‘stay in the country,’ his administration has begun taking steps to weaken the program
Pedro Lorenzo Concepción has been in the controversial Florida detention center since July 9. He decided to stop eating nine days ago to protest his detention and that of many others like him
‘I’m preparing for the worst,’ says the 26-year-old’s mother. Earlier in July, Yan Carlos González González died in another prison after going more than 40 days without food in protest against a sentence he considered unjust
The artist recounts the beatings he endured, some for daring to sing, during the four months he was imprisoned in El Salvador’s Cecot
Over the course of a month, EL PAÍS followed the daily lives of several men held in a prison for foreigners that they call a ‘living hell.’ Speaking from the inside, they described the appalling conditions, the climate of fear, and the lives that have been taken from them by Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade
At 33, with nearly 115,000 Instagram followers, he is the most talked-about Castro in Cuba today and one of the most potent symbols of the revolution’s decline