Cuba’s drug crisis: Families scour black market as pharmacies run dry, children’s lives hang in the balance

HAVANA, July 10 — Cuban Jessica Rodriguez never knows if she will find the medicines that keep her four-year-old son alive in a country that has all but run out of essential drugs. On a near daily basis she sprints from one state-run pharmacy to another on …

Who is Lina Luaces, the New Miss Universe Cuba 2025?

There’s a new Miss Universe Cuba. Lina Luaces, the daughter of Lili Estefan, has been crowned the new representative for the country in the upcoming Miss Universe. The 74th Miss Universe pageant is set to take place on November 21, 2025, at the Impact …

Private pharmacies, clinics and hospitals are illegal in communist Cuba

Satanizing the people in uniform: the new pretext for the war against Cuba

FAR and Minint are an inseparable part of Cuba's history in its permanent struggle against the vile obsession of the U.S. governments to truncate our right to independence and sovereignty. Photo: Juvenal Balán The military that Marco Rubio's …

What do gender equality indicators reflect in Cuba?

The incorporation of the 2024 population interface facilitates the detailed monitoring of key indicators such as women's economic empowerment, education, access to decision-making, sexual and reproductive health, and gender violence. Photo: Granma With …

Poor Folks Coffee in Matanzas, Cuba: Scarce, Cold & Bitter

The collapse of Cuban coffee is a palpable reality, evident in the product’s disappearance from ration stores. Photo: 14ymedio Many retirees would need to invest half of their pension in a simple 284-gram (0.62 lbs.) package of imported coffee. By Julio …

A runner’s highs and lows in escaping Cuba

Photo of the author‘s running shoes, used with permission. This story was written by the Cuban filmmaker Carlos Melián Moreno and was originally published in Periodismo de Barrio on May 12, 2025. It has been republished in Global Voices under a media …

The Coffee of the Poor in Matanzas, Cuba: Scarce, Cold and Bitter

Many retirees would need to invest half of their pension in a simple 284-gram package of the imported product. The collapse of Cuban coffee is a palpable reality, evident in the disappearance of the product in the bodegas /14ymedio 14ymedio, Julio …

Trump lifted sanctions on Syria. Now do Cuba.

President Trump’s new National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) on Cuba, announced on June 30, reaffirms the policy of sanctions and hostility he articulated at the start of his first term in office. In fact, the new NSPM is almost identical to the …

Cuba, reputed for supplying highly-trained medical doctors to other countries and for its advanced domestic ...

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