Miguel Díaz-Canel

The politician, who was also economy minister, was until 2024 a highly trusted collaborator of President Miguel Díaz-Canel

The independent website publishes a daily exchange currency tracker that the authorities are holding responsible for destabilizing an already struggling economy

The US military escalation raises questions about the island’s future and its historical dependence on the South American nation

The United Nations declared the imprisonment of dozens of political prisoners ‘illegal’ at its last session

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

A rebuke by the US Deputy Secretary of State to the Mexican ambassador to the UN for supporting Havana reignites tensions amid Trump’s offensive in the region

Miguel Díaz-Canel said the cyclone had caused ‘extensive damage.’ Jamaica remains in darkness as it waits to assess its losses. The storm’s passage through the Caribbean has left at least 49 people dead

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

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

While the official narrative tries to avoid the word ‘poverty,’ the inequality that the revolutionaries promised to eradicate is increasingly evident

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 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’

The island suffers from long, daily power outages, while goods are accessible to few consumers. The only thing that seems to remain intact from the Cuban Revolution are its slogans

Miguel Díaz-Canel’s administration has once again imprisoned opposition figures released after negotiations with Pope Francis

Marta Elena Feitó’s statements provoked a wave of popular indignation, with even President Díaz-Canel distancing himself from the politician

Human Rights Watch has gathered testimonies from those detained during the July 11, 2021 protests. Four years on, hundreds remain behind bars

A White House memo calls for tightening the embargo on the island, though economists dismiss these measures as ‘more of the same’

Ukrainian intelligence estimates that nearly 20,000 people have joined the Russian army since 2022, with the complicity of the Díaz-Canel administration. Some claim they arrived under false pretences

The increase in the cost of the service, which must be purchased primarily in US dollars, reflects the need to introduce foreign currency into a bankrupt economy

In the almost 60 years since the Cuban Revolution, never before have some 550,000 Cubans found themselves unable to legal status in a country that has traditionally welcomed them

The journalist was released from a Havana prison last June and allowed into the United States under a permit granted by the Biden administration. Now, the Trump administration is demanding he return to the island or face deportation

Washington has suspended the anti-Castro media outlet, which stopped broadcasting for the first time in 40 years. ‘It’s a goal for Havana,’ says one of its flagship journalists

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