Cuba’s current crisis is worse than the Special Period, but the private sector offers some hope. ... In 2021, pork production, for example, decreased 60%, followed by an 18.6% decline last year.

On Tuesday, the euro achieved an unprecedented peak in Cuba's informal currency market, highlighting the ongoing decline of the Cuban peso and the ...

In a recent interview, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel fervently defended the island's political system, refuting claims that ...

With a monthly pension barely sufficient to buy 15 eggs or a small bag of rice, Cuba’s elderly people struggle to make ends ...

The pandemic, the 2021 anti-government protests and now the blackouts are crippling Cuba’s once thriving tourism sector. Sugar production, once one of Cuba’s economic pillars, is in crisis ...

Cuba's electrical grid has ... including rare popular protests in July 2021 that were quickly repressed. But the most noticeable effect of the crisis is a mass exodus, with the most conservative ...

Cuba in crisis as electrical grid collapses causing island-wide ... made public by the government revealed the population fell to 10,055,968 in December 2023 from 11,181,595 in December 2021.

In an unusually blunt statement published June 15, the Cuban bishops' conference said that throughout the country, "it is ...

With a monthly pension barely sufficient to buy 15 eggs or a small bag of rice, Cuba’s elderly struggle to make ends meet in ...

Cuba's energy crisis, characterized by frequent blackouts ... During protests in July 2021, hundreds of Cubans participating in widespread demonstrations were arrested following a series of ...

"Their owners must have had fe, a family abroad, at least initially to invest in Cuba," said Romulo. Faced with the crisis, in 2021 the state accepted private entrepreneurship – whereas its ...