Cuban leadership hopes its announced reforms will buy it time with the US
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 year 2049, the great dystopia: The world after the fall of Ukraine
The global nightmare scenario: Russia emerges as the hegemonic power in Eurasia after the capitulation of Ukraine; China, transformed into its silent (and superior) partner; the US, normalizing digital referendums on guns and abortion, its population manipulated by algorithmic disinformation; and the EU reduced to a soulless, technocratic bloc. In a work of political fiction, Spain’s former foreign minister Arancha González Laya paints a picture of the world that awaits us if Europe fails to react
Díaz-Canel announces reforms to liberalize Cuba’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
Trump corners Cuba’s political leadership in a bid to force regime change
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
The desperation of Cubans, trapped between Trump and the regime: ‘How can you resist when you have nothing?’
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
What will happen to tourism in Cuba? Inside GAESA, the military conglomerate on Washington’s radar
The Trump administration dreams of taking over the management of the hotels, which are controlled by the giant state‑run company
Miguel Díaz‑Canel, the steward of the remains of the Cuban Revolution
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
Mistrust between the Cuban exile community and the island’s internal opposition complicates a post‑Castro transition
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 dilemmas over Cuba’s future: Regime change or negotiated transition
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
Cuba’s blackouts in charts: More hours without power than with it as Trump’s pressure intensifies
Outages are soaring nationwide, compounding the long‑running crisis of a weakened electrical system from the Soviet era
ICE arrests the sister of the head of Cuba’s military conglomerate GAESA
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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
US Supreme Court paves way for companies affected by Fidel Castro’s expropriations to seek compensation from Cuba
The justices ruled in favor of Havana Docks Corporation receiving compensation after the nationalization of its docks in 1960
Miami’s exile community celebrates indictment of Raúl Castro: ‘Trump has made the people regain hope’
At the heart of the Cuban community in the United States, there is unanimous support for Washington’s maximum-pressure strategy against Havana
Raúl Castro indictment corners Castroism and shows how far Trump is willing to go in Cuba
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
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Trumpist Miami attorney behind the planned indictment of Raúl Castro
The first US attorney appointed by the president in his second term, the son of Cuban exiles whose record has been questioned, has aggressively implemented the Republican’s agenda
Raúl Castro indicted in the United States over 1996 plane shootdown
Donald Trump has again opened the door to a diplomatic deal with Havana to force political and economic concessions in exchange for aid
Raúl Castro’s confession that could lead to a trial in the US: ‘Knock them down into the sea’
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
Raúl Castro, the defining symbol of revolutionary Cuba, is in the crosshairs of the US government
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
Trump repeats the Venezuela playbook to force change in Cuba
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
Jorge Mas, anti-Castro leader in exile: ‘What Trump did with Venezuela works there, but it won’t work in Cuba’
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”
Cuba, in Trump’s hands: ‘The worst thing is trusting a messiah from the outside because we are incapable of saving ourselves’
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
‘El Cangrejo’: Raúl Castro’s ‘favorite’ grandson in talks with the United States
Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro has been present at all the important meetings with the US, but even so, Cubans wonder who really rules Cuba today
A Cuba on the brink of collapse peers into the vertigo of change imposed from the United States
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
The US considers indicting former Cuban president Raúl Castro
US media, citing government sources, said the accusation is related to the downing of humanitarian aircraft in 1996
Alina Fernández, daughter of Fidel Castro: ‘People in Cuba need to breathe, to enter the 21st century, to give their children a life’
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
US gives Cuba two-week ultimatum to release high-profile political prisoners
In a secret meeting in Havana on April 10, Washington pressured for the release of artist Luis Manuel Otero and rapper Maykel Osorbo, as well as the rest of the prisoners
Luis Manuel Otero and the hunger strike as a recourse
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?
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