Experts attribute the collapse to the island’s economic emergency: it relies on imports it cannot afford and on trading partners that are supplying increasingly diminishing amounts of oil
More than 95% of power comes from fossil fuels, with no investment to upgrade the system and blackouts a regular problem
Residents confined to their homes played board games, followed the news and tried to stay calm as the wind and rain began pummeling their communities on Wednesday night
Some 150 Cuban reporters have gone into exile over the past two years in the face of a witch hunt where authorities use the Penal Code to pursue the media considered contrary to their interests
Authorities paraded Fidel’s brother alongside the Vietnamese president during a recent visit to disprove rumors that the 93-year-old historic leader is dead
An investigation has been launched in Tennessee after victims’ families and survivors said that management had prohibited employees from leaving the facility
The 51-year-old Puerto Rican holds a doctorate in Political Science and is an environmental activist in the South Bronx. Every day, he works to expand the diversity of the century-old museum
Figures released by US border authorities confirm the ‘demographic depletion’ that experts are warning about
The latest overture by the former president’s campaign has been to circulate a video where he makes some dance moves to a 1990s hit song with adapted lyrics
In 2023, more than 731,000 Haitians were living in the diaspora in the U.S. According to NGOs, 227 deportation flights were made to the country between 2021 and 2022
Advocate Fabiola Mancilla has brought 25 minors who have been separated from their parents and left in vulnerable situations over to the United States
The signatories of a letter addressed to Joe Biden include ex-presidents and prime ministers from Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, who call the situation ‘a coercive measure difficult to justify in the 21st century’
The Cuban government has acknowledged that the problem is due to numerous leaks, broken pumping equipment and constant power outages on the island. But no solution seems forthcoming
So far in 2024, the International Organization for Migration has recorded a total of 291 migrants dead or missing on Caribbean maritime routes
Citizenship and Immigration Services receives applications for the Parole in Place program starting this week
Red de Pueblos Trasnacionales – or the Transnational Peoples Network – is an organization that brings together Indigenous and rural immigrants in the city, while facilitating family reunions
The Cuban festival, which has been going on for over 60 years according to some estimates, begins when the heat of the summer months arrives in the Big Apple
The Paris Games saw two different Cuban wrestlers compete for the gold: the fighter who remained on the island and his compatriot who defected
The results revealed that 72% of those surveyed consider the food crisis the main problem, and that seven out of 10 Cubans have stopped eating breakfast, lunch, or dinner due to lack of money or shortages
According to numbers compiled by Cuban economist and demographer Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos, the island’s population fell by 18% between 2022 and 2023
In an interview with EL PAÍS, Jason Fulford remembers his cousin and dedicates the song ‘Taking Our Breath Back’ to him, in memory of the phrase that Eric repeated 11 times before he died: ‘I can’t breathe’
Three years after the July 11 protests — the largest in Cuba since the early years of the Revolution — the dissident artist speaks with EL PAÍS
Under a new agreement between the two countries that will take effect in the coming weeks, Washington will begin financing flights to return thousands of migrants headed north back to their countries of origin
Analysts warn that the government’s plan is missing in-depth structural reforms, and could even aggravate the island’s record exodus
The Díaz-Canel executive approves a series of measures that include budget cuts, equal pricing policy and readjustments aimed at ‘correcting distortions’
Two undocumented Venezuelans are accused of her death. The Republican nominee said ‘these monsters should never have been in our country and if I were president, they would not have been in our country’
Evermore frequently, independent media sources have published articles about robberies, murders and street fights