During a power outage, two men sit in a bicycle cab in Havana in October 2024. Amid President Trump’s threats to start a global trade war, invade Greenland, seize control of the Panama Canal and annex ...

Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US ...

Illegal drug use and violent crime, once rare in Cuba, are on the rise, the island’s leaders have told the country’s National Assembly in a session where officials shared data showing the severity of ...

Gaviota, GAESA’s tourism group, was making 42% net profits in the first quarter of 2024, double the average in the global ...

Cuba's energy crisis, characterized by frequent blackouts and fuel shortages, is causing significant economic hardship and social unrest. The crisis is attributed to aging infrastructure, lack of ...

Residents of a small town in Sancti Spiritus, in central Cuba, were shocked last year when the body of a schoolteacher was retrieved from a well. He had been tied down with stones and heavy pieces of ...

The massive Oct . 18 power outage that virtually paralyzed Cuba’s economy for several days and the subsequent hurricane that hit the island days later have worsened an already severe economic crisis.

The 11th Plenary of the PCC offered no answers or signs of renewal. It only made clear that Cuban power is trapped in its own ...

US policy is exacerbating the growing crisis. People look at food prices at a private business in Havana on December 20, 2023. Cuba’s economy will shrink by up to 2 percent this year, Finance Minister ...

AFP. 2023. “En Cuba, cada vez más alimentos importados que cultivados.” [Online] Available at: https://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/en-cuba-cada-vez-m%C3%A1s-alimentos ...

The Cuban government published several regulations in the Official Gazette on Thursday, formalizing the use of foreign currencies as part of the government’s efforts to promote dollarization amid the ...