The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, who has just published a book about the search for her family’s past, speaks about emigration to the US and the crisis facing her native country
The actor, who has been barred from returning to Cuba for more than 20 years, discusses the rise of exile theater in Miami, Trump’s deportation policies and the future of a democratic Cuba
Based in Miami, he is the author of an essay on the economic transformation the island experienced in the first six years of the Revolution
Miguel Díaz-Canel says his government will continue to defend socialism through the 176 measures that open up the island to the market and end egalitarianism
Tension between both countries has not eased since January and has prompted a flight of foreign companies from the tourism sector, the backbone of the island’s economy
Its failure is an undeniable fact. It was never able to provide for the material well-being of its population on its own
An executive order that threatens to freeze the assets of foreign companies on the island will take effect on Friday. Some hotel chains have already announced they are severing ties
The Trump administration dreams of taking over the management of the hotels, which are controlled by the giant state‑run company
The Cuban government is digging in its heels in the face of the overwhelming offensive from the United States, becoming increasingly disconnected from its citizens
The justices ruled in favor of Havana Docks Corporation receiving compensation after the nationalization of its docks in 1960
US justice accuses the 94-year-old former president of the deaths of four people in the shootdown of two planes in 1996 and takes a decisive step in plans to force regime change on the island
The handover of the former regime fixer to the United States is the most revealing episode of how the Rodríguez siblings, backed by Diosdado Cabello, are trying to sever the most toxic ties of the Maduro era
The Miami prosecutor’s office is preparing an indictment against the former Cuban president for ordering the downing of two NGO aircraft, killing the four people on board
The man who went from being his brother Fidel’s shadow to becoming the regime’s ruthless strategist will be indicted Wednesday by the Department of Justice
The island’s population, pushed to the edge of survival, awaits in anguish and hope for the outcome of negotiations between the United States and a regime with ever-narrowing room to maneuver
The CIA director’s presence in Havana, one day after the regime admitted it had exhausted its fuel reserves, accelerates Trump’s ‘takeover’ of the island
While some in Cuba see an American intervention as being the only hope for change, others claim to be living their ‘worst nightmare’ under the Republican president’s administration
After 67 years in music, the Cuban singer, pianist, and composer still does not plan on ‘resting.’ He is currently promoting two new albums
Amid tensions with the United States, the regime is demanding that Cubans sign a pledge to defend the country at any cost
Speaking from exile in Miami, the 70-year-old reflects on the moment she learned she was Castro’s daughter, on current negotiations between Cuba and the United States, and on the damage her father inflicted on the island
Painting as a form of protest would create a second confinement and, worse still, two oppressions. Why should the artist say what his body is already expressing for him?
Endless blackouts, along with shortages of water and fuel, have forced Cubans into a grueling daily struggle for survival
The world is witnessing the end of the greatest feat of the 20th century in Latin America, although for Cubans the Revolution ended long ago
The professor and director of Harvard’s Cuba Program, who is dedicated to unraveling the history of slavery and racism on the island, believes that ‘repression became part of Castroism’s DNA’
The US president is sticking to his plan as the war in Iran becomes more complicated
The governments of Claudia Sheinbaum and Donald Trump maintain an unwritten agreement for the deportation of foreigners. A federal judge has estimated that 6,000 Cubans have been deported so far. Most arrive in the Mexican cities of Villahermosa and Tapachula, where they barely survive in the absence of state support
The mass pardon comes amid ongoing negotiations between Havana and Washington and just a week after Donald Trump gave an initial sign of easing the oil embargo