Cuba

Two months into the fall of 2025, Cubans are enduring one of the worst energy crises in decades. From Santiago to Pinar del Río, long-lasting blackouts have plunged communities into…
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Assata Shakur, a Black revolutionary who inspired generations of activists to struggle for a better world, passed away on Thursday in Havana, Cuba, where she had lived in exile from the…
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This month, the Cuba Study Group released a report authored by Ricardo Torres, an economist specializing in the Cuban economy who has written for Progreso Weekly in the past. The…
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For the fourth time in less than a year, Cuba has been plunged into complete darkness. On the evening of September 10, 2025, the island’s electrical grid collapsed once again, cutting…
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With a deep rumble, the massive threshing wheel of the rice harvester pushes through the tightly packed green stalks. The plants vanish into the belly of the machine, where rice grains…
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The political debate over Cuban emigration has mostly been shaped by two extremes: one views it as a democratizing force that can transform the country from outside, while the other…
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Using Artificial Intelligence, Progreso Weekly has put together a quick recap of the news coming out of Cuba in the past months. Much of the information was gathered from news outlets…
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The fifth regular session of the National Assembly of People's Power, in its tenth term, met last week at the Convention Center amid a climate of energy shortage, ongoing economic…
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Based on the press reports about the 10th Plenary Session of the Central Committee, the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) appears more like an entity living in a different country than in…
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Cuba's elderly population, comprising over a quarter of the country's inhabitants, is facing a severe and rapidly deteriorating economic crisis. Pension amounts are woefully inadequate,…
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