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Cuba in 2025: Resilience amid crisis — a year in review
Cuba entered 2025 facing one of the most challenging periods in its recent history. Yet despite economic contraction, energy blackouts, and rising food insecurity, ordinary Cubans and…
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Alejandro Gil case concludes with life sentence
Cuba’s Supreme Popular Tribunal has handed former Economy and Planning Minister Alejandro Gil Fernández a life sentence, concluding one of the most consequential political and judicial…
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Cuba’s mosquito-borne health emergency
Cuba is confronting one of its most severe public-health crises in decades as simultaneous outbreaks of Dengue and Chikungunya sweep across the island. What began as a seasonal rise in…
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Cuban homes and hurricanes
By the time Hurricane Melissa left Santiago de Cuba Bay, almost no houses on Cayo Granma had roofs, and dozens had been completely destroyed.
Many residents spent that night sheltering…
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The Alejandro Gil case: The fall of Cuba’s finance czar
When Alejandro Gil Fernández — once Cuba’s public face of economic reform, a deputy prime minister, and the architect of a significant 2021 monetary overhaul — disappeared from the…
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Melissa strikes eastern Cuba
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba early on October 29, 2025, with a ferocity that alarmed even seasoned meteorologists and emergency managers. Having already ravaged…
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Foreign hotel chains to lease Cuban-owned properties
In a surprising move for one of the world’s most heavily controlled economies, Cuba is making a bold effort to attract foreign investment into its struggling tourism industry. The…
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Groceries in Cuba and the empty bottle of oil
A year ago, the Ministry of Domestic Trade (MINCIN) responded to predictions about the removal of products from the regulated basket with a tweet in which it declined to take…
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Cuba’s lights continue to flicker
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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Tributes pour in for revolutionary icon Assata Shakur
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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