Fidel Castro

Older adults are the only demographic expanding on the island; the problem is not the aging itself, but the conditions in which it happens

Ten-year-old Damir Ortiz requires care from a Miami hospital for his neurological genetic condition

The Díaz-Canel government has announced a ‘partial dollarization’ in its latest attempt to steer a completely bankrupt economy

Havana announced the decision after Washington said that it was removing Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism

Despite the fact that fewer and fewer visitors are traveling to the island and hotel occupancy has fallen, the government allocated almost 40% of its investments in 2024 to activities related to the industry

Dania María Esplugas blames the government for murdering her son Manuel de Jesús Guillén, who was imprisoned for participating in the protests of July 11, 2021, while the official narrative claims he killed himself

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the installation and performance artist — a declared opponent of the Cuban government — delves into her past. She also talks about her 2021 departure from the island and what her life has been like since then

The appointment of the son of Cuban migrants as US Secretary of State will put relations with the Caribbean island at the center of Donald Trump’s agenda

According to one poll, 68% of this electorate plans to vote for the Republican candidate, doubling the figure he received in 2016

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

The Paris Games saw two different Cuban wrestlers compete for the gold: the fighter who remained on the island and his compatriot who defected

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

‘I don’t expect our signs to convince the Cuban MAGA lunatics in Florida, who are part of the Trump cult,’ says the founder of Mad Dog PAC, which is behind the billboards featuring messages in Spanish

On the verge of turning 90, the Cuban economist analyzes with data why this is the worst crisis the island has ever faced and reflects on the apparent arrival of capitalism to the last communist bastion of the West

In an interview with journalist Ignacio Ramonet that generated controversy on the island, the Cuban president referred to the blackouts, the economic crisis and inflation, and political demonstrations

Throughout its history the team from Hamburg, known as ‘the most progressive in the world,’ has maintained friendships and cultural ties with several Latin American countries

An investigation reveals the impunity that the four victims, two of them Spanish, allegedly suffered while studying at the International School of Film and Television

The singer, who died last February, is key to understanding the island’s past, present and future

The journalist and editor Manuel Florentín has published a chronicle of the persecution that totalitarian regimes have perpetrated against intellectuals and creators, from Lenin’s Soviet Union to Ortega’s Nicaragua

The United States and Israel opposed, and Ukraine abstaining. Somalia, Venezuela and Moldova didn’t vote. The ‘yes’ vote was up from 185 last year and 184 in 2021, and it tied the 2019 vote of 187

‘El Caso Padilla’ documentary used unpublished material to expose the censorship and repression writer Heberto Padilla endured under the Castro regime

Now a cameraman for Spanish broadcaster TVE having taken refuge in Paris after escaping from prison in 1990, the former Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front fighter tells the story of the attempt on the Chilean dictator’s life

The award-winning Cuban journalist and author believes that the end of the dictatorship on the island “is already happening.” In a conversation with EL PAÍS, he laments the fact that leftist governments condemn the Nicaraguan and Venezuelan regimes, but don’t speak out against the dictatorship in his own country

In his new term, Díaz-Canel must deal with a severe recession prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, soaring inflation triggered by a series of financial policy decisions and strict sanctions imposed by the U.S.