Miguel Díaz-Canel

After five years in prison and now living in exile in Miami, he reflects on the island’s crisis, a possible US intervention, and what he sees as a decisive moment for Cuba

Five years after the unprecedented mass demonstrations, many Cubans remain behind bars while others have been forced into exile

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

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

The artist is being housed at a government facility while awaiting his definitive release

Human rights advocates warn of a new punitive wave in Cuba, where the charge of ‘sabotage’ is routinely used to punish citizen protests

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

The measures include allowing state companies to participate in the foreign exchange market, authorizing investments by Cubans abroad and ending subsidies for products

After foreign operators were threatened by an executive order, Marriott and Airbnb could be the first American tourism companies to return to the island, where they previously operated during the thaw in Barack Obama’s second term

Washington’s sanctions against President Díaz‑Canel and his inner circle add to the energy blockade and the indictment of Raúl Castro. This Friday marks the deadline for foreign companies to stop collaborating with the island

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

Applicants for residency in Spain denounce a huge backlog to secure criminal records, scams to get appointments and problems from power outages

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 president of Cuba, in Raúl Castro’s shadow, has barely been able to push through reforms on the island, which is bordering on collapse

There has long been infighting among the various factions of the dissident movement. This is hindering any plan to achieve consensus among the regime’s critics

The precedent in Caracas looms over the island, but analysts and historians see a horizon of ‘capitalism without democracy’ as more likely than regime change

Outages are soaring nationwide, compounding the long‑running crisis of a weakened electrical system from the Soviet era

Marco Rubio says Adys Lastres Morera, who had been living in the US and working in real estate, is now in immigration custody in Florida

At the heart of the Cuban community in the United States, there is unanimous support for Washington’s maximum-pressure strategy against Havana

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 CIA director presented Havana with demands similar to those he made to Caracas in January. The threat of prosecuting Raúl Castro evokes Nicolás Maduro’s capture

The American businessman says he is working in lockstep with the White House to accelerate change on the island, and toward that end, the foundation he leads has drawn up an economic plan and a “fundamental transition law”

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