Cuba

Fuel shortages are paralyzing the economy, while the United States is incentivizing the island’s private sector

A handful of young content creators on the island have found a degree of freedom online. In the digital world, the narrative about the guerrillas who won the heart of the Latin American left has run its course

President Miguel Díaz-Canel appears live on television after releasing a video message on bilateral relations with Washington

In a statement, the Havana regime asserts that this is a ‘sovereign decision’ and that the prisoners will be freed ‘in the coming days’

The weariness of the population, subjected to constant blackouts and chronic poverty, is being exacerbated by Trump’s energy blockade

The Kremlin is offloading its offshore oil reserves due to the Middle East crisis, but a sustained global recession would hit its economy hard

The US president warns almost daily that the island ‘is in its last moments’ and must negotiate an agreement

During the severe crisis of the 1990s, the regime explored models for survival without ever losing power. Today, facing an even bigger threat, Cuban historians and economists are analyzing possible scenarios

The US president warned that there will be no agreement with Tehran to end the war ‘except unconditional surrender’

President Miguel Díaz-Canel called for urgent change to the island’s state-centered economic model

The incident involving a US boat demonstrates the existence of exile groups that advocate insurgency, a marginal strategy within the opposition but one with historical precedents

The shutdown of the island’s main thermoelectric plant leaves nearly 7 million Cubans without electricity

The southern Italian region defends the hiring of 400 Cuban doctors, who arrived three years ago to address the shortage of specialists

So far, Cuba has not provided any information about the injured, which hospitals they are in, or whether the remains of the deceased will be returned to the United States

Cubans in the capital of the island’s exile community in the United States watch, with a mix of optimism and frustration, as their country moves closer than ever to the change that has eluded them for decades

The streets of Havana are empty of traffic and tourists as the exhausted population, barely surviving day to day, awaits an outcome to Trump’s energy blockade

The humanitarian crisis is far older and more structural than anything that could be caused by a month‑long fuel blockade

The Republican commented on the situation on the island for the first time since the Cuban Coast Guard killed four crew members of a boat coming from the US

The incident has occurred at a particularly sensitive moment in the relationship between the United States and Cuba

The State Department has confirmed that one of the six injured is also from the United States

Three young Cubans, born at the end of the Special Period, describe their routines, fears, and survival strategies in the days leading up to a predicted energy collapse

Four of the crew members were killed by the Coast Guard, and six others were wounded. Havana said it seized ‘assault rifles, handguns, and explosive devices’

The island’s government says the vessel opened fire after ignoring orders to stop as it entered Cuban territorial waters

Besides the economic blockade, the first deportation flight back to the island in decades suggests that reverse migration is also factored into the Republican administration’s calculations

After fighting in Iraq, he served 16 years in prison before being placed in immigration detention and eventually deported: ‘I have the right to be buried in a national cemetery, but not to live in America’

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the politician calls on the EU to do more for Ukraine and to reassess its relationship with Cuba

The generation that suffered the hardships of the so-called Special Period now faces an old age of misery and uncertainty. Those living alone find themselves extremely vulnerable to the high cost of living on the island