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Batista, un mesías tropical

Un banco español se va de Cuba y uno ruso abre oficinas en La Habana

La ayuda de Japón a Cuba: material sanitario, guaguas y ahora apoyo a la agricultura

En Cuba 95 personas murieron por culpa de las autoridades en los últimos cinco años

Aniette González, presa por envolverse con la bandera, recibe medidas cautelares de la CIDH

Los balseros cubanos rescatados por pescadores quieren quedarse en México

Pantoja, el maestro cubano rebelde, va con Colombia en el Capablanca in Memoriam

La exitosa marca privada Helados Cid abre un local en el corazón de La Habana

La crisis de la basura en Las Tunas obliga a las autoridades a entregar más combustible a Comunales

Nueve años de prisión para el cubano que escribió “Díaz-Canel, singao” en un muro

El ají pimiento se mudó a las tiendas en divisas en Cuba

Asesinada por su ex pareja en Villa Clara una madre de 28 años

Criminales transnacionales

La aerolínea colombiana Avianca reanuda sus vuelos a Cuba tras cuatro años de ausencia

Otro año de bulos, propaganda y desinformación en la prensa del Partido Comunista de Cuba

México ha detenido a 10.464 migrantes cubanos rumbo a EE UU en lo que va de año

La Unión Europea dice estar “preocupada” por las desproporcionadas sentencias de los manifestantes de Nuevitas

“Pena, Miseria y Calamidad” a la venta en un viejo comercio chino de La Habana

“Viva el dos de mayo”, el día en que los apagones y la escasez retornan a Cuba

La mexicana Pemex confirma que exportó petróleo a Cuba por valor de 400 millones de dólares en 2023

Las lluvias intensas dejan 21 viviendas con daños en los techos en Baracoa

Organizaciones y periodistas independientes reclaman la liberación de José Luis Tan Estrada

El tribunal de Villa Clara que juzga al asesino de Yeniset Rojas dictará sentencia en 20 días

Llegan a México otros 123 cubanos para un programa que despidió a sus propios médicos

EE UU critica la “indignante” sentencia impuesta a los manifestantes de Nuevitas

El Gobierno cubano reconoce el desastre económico del primer trimestre del año

Un “artista de la propaganda” recorre los agromercados de La Habana

La Universidad de Oriente se alarma tras estudiar el “sueño migrante” de los cubanos

La aerolínea Conviasa anuncia vuelos de Caracas a Managua con conexión en La Habana a partir del 5 de mayo

Victoria Prego, la periodista española que nos preparó para una transición que en Cuba no llegó

La policía política interroga a Dagoberto Valdés sobre una supuesta “operación” contra el régimen

Reaparecen por el Primero de Mayo los ómnibus que llevan meses ausentes de La Habana

Irán planea usar los puertos cubanos “para satisfacer la demanda de los países sudamericanos”

El Gobierno suspende definitivamente los vuelos de Cubana de Aviación a Argentina

Una trifulca, expulsiones de peloteros y polémicas arbitrales ensombrecen la Serie Nacional

Esperados y “desconcertantes”, algunos de los libros cubanos publicados en abril

Antes despreciado, el plátano burro es ahora el salvavidas de muchas familias cubanas

En el primer trimestre del año llegaron a EE UU más de 60,000 cubanos por la frontera

El chavismo y sus aliados se comprometen, sin fecha, a relanzar Petrocaribe

Patinaje sobre escombros, un nuevo deporte en el Prado habanero

La Cidh ve con “gran preocupación” que Cuba no mejore en “aspectos estructurales”

El turista canadiense que falleció en Cuba fue enterrado por error en Rusia

Cubana atribuye la cancelación de vuelos a Argentina a la negativa de las empresas a servirle combustible

Cuba se suma a la “colaboración espacial” con China para usar sus “datos satelitales”

Amnistía Internacional denuncia la “existencia de una constante represiva” en Cuba

El oficialismo atribuye a los emigrados una parte importante de las drogas que entran a Cuba

The Cuban Government Promotes a ‘Tricycle Revolution’ in the Midst of the Energy Crisis

The Communist Party of Chile Is Annoyed With Boric for Requesting the Democratization of Cuba

The Blackouts in Holguin, Cuba, Predict a Dark Future for the New Electric Tricycles

Why Are Cuba’s Provincial Governors Being Fired?

A Cuban Receives 30 Years in Prison for Murder in a Case of Illegal Departure to the United States

In Matanzas, Cuba, the ATMs Are Like People: Without Money

Migrant Women With Children Risk Rape and Robbery in the ‘Hell’ of the Darien Jungle

Opposition Candidate Xochitl Galvez Promises Not to Hire Cuban Doctors if She Wins the Presidency of Mexico

The ‘Youngest Soldier in Cuba’ Recollects Her Family Trauma in the Documentary ‘Seguridad’

The Decline of Alba

Cuba Establishes an Electronic Visa to try to Revitalize Tourism that is Not Recovering

Haiti, Another Failure of Latin American Integration

More Than Half the Fishing Boats in Las Tunas Are Docked For Lack of Spare Parts

Unable to Control the Collapse of the Cuban Peso, the Regime Intensifies its Offensive Against ‘El Toque’

Private Businesses in Matanzas Present Customers with Both Opportunities and Challenges

The Cuban Regime Asks Hundreds of Young Foreigners To Spread ‘Cuba’s Truth’ About Palestine

Cuba Will Focus on China at Its Next International Tourism Fair

Four Cuban Rafters Were Rescued on the Coast of Mexico After Four Others Died on the Crossing

Havana 2024: Poverty, Blackouts, Remittances

Cuban Musician Gorki Aguila is Detained at the Santiago de las Vegas Police Station

Cuba Repeats as the Worst Latin American Country for Freedom of the Press, According to Reporters Without Borders

A Capitalist Symbol of the 1950s, Ten Cent Is Revived as a Private-Sector Retail Business in Cuba

The United States Rules Out Negotiating Cuba’s Removal From the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

Cuban Journalist Jose Luis Tan Estrada Is Released After Five Days of Detention by State Security

La Cuevita, Where Capitalism Works in Cuba

The Busy Life of a Young Couple who Have Chosen to Stay in Cuba

Seoul and Havana Take One More Step Towards the Opening of Embassies in Both Countries

Powdered Milk Arrives in Cuba in the Form of Donations From Europe

The Authorities ‘Reinsert’ Juan Miguel Echevarría Into Cuban Athletics

The Young Woman Who Broadcast the Nuevitas Protests Is Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

Spending One’s Youth in Prison, the Cuban Regime’s Punishment for Filming a Protest

The Official Press Celebrates a Million Tourists in 2024 as an ‘Element That Confirms’ the Recovery

A Pan-American Judo Champion Is the Latest of the Escaped Cuban Athletes

Warning of Upsurge in Violations Against Intellectuals and Journalists in Cuba

In the Cuban Athens ‘Everything Is Done on Foot’ Due to the Transport Crisis

The Intellectuals and Castroism

Overwhelmed By the Excess of Garbage, Las Tunas Trash Collectors Stop Working for the Cuban State

Casa de las Americas Licks Its Wounds on Its 65th Anniversary and Longs for Its Influence in the Region

Cubans Without ‘Family in the Exterior’ Survive by Reselling on the Streets

Japan Donates 20 Million Dollars to Cuba To Install a Photovoltaic Park on Isla de la Juventud

Dimas Castellano

El Blog de Dimas
Dimas's Blog

LIBERTAD NUEVA VERSIÓN

Dual Currencies: Before 1959 and Today / Dimas Castellano

Three Points to Solve the Embargo / Dimas Castellano

Cyclones, Housing and Revolution / Dimas Castellano

Last Episode of This Cuban Electoral System / Dimas Castellano

Cuba, Elections and Electoral Reform / Dimas Castellano

Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Ciudadano Cero
Citizen Zero

Nueva crisis del castrismo: viejos polvos, nuevos lodos.

Is a Fraudulent Change Brewing Up in Cuba? / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Proposal for Introduction of Decree Law 35 / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Economic Disorder, Castroism’s Vocation / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Cuba: You Must Be Having a Laugh Diaz-Canel... / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Abstention, a Fearsome Weapon Against Castroism / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

Somos+

Somos+
Somos+ English

Somos+ Cuba convoca elecciones a su coordinación.

Ex presos políticos Plantados están en España para presentar el filme, encuentro con sus protagonistas.

Club Somos+ España convoca elecciones a su coordinación

Comunicado final Comisión Electoral

Eddy Rodríguez, candidato a la presidencia de Somos+

Political Police Attack Activists in Cuba, Including Active Members of #Somos+ / Somos+

Somos+ Calls a Protest Against the Complicity of #PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) with the Havana Regime / Somos+

Cuban Politics During the Last Six Decades / Somos+, Hector Fernandez

A Prime Minister with Doubtful Results as a Minister / Somos+

Arbitrary Detention in Cuba of Somos+ Coordinator for Uruguay, Lidier Hernadez Sotolongo / Somos+



Cubalex
Cubalex English

¿Por qué los Tribunales cubanos desestiman los recursos legales presentados por la ciudadanía? 

Abogado Julio Ferrer presenta reclamación ante el Consejo de Gobierno del Tribunal Supremo Popular

CIDH otorga medidas cautelares a Aniette González, activista encarcelada en Cuba

Cuba: Escalada de represión en el contexto del 1ro de Mayo

Mayelín Rodríguez Prado: Sentenciada a 15 años por transmitir las protestas de Nuevitas

Monthly Report on the Human Rights Situation in Cuba (July 2023) / Cubalex

Solitary Confinement: More Cruel and Inhuman Treatment of Detained Persons by the Cuban State / Cubalex

Monthly Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Cuba (February 2023) / Cubalex

Monthly Report on the Human Rights Situation in Cuba: January 2023 / Cubalex

Statement of Human Rights Organizations on the Situation of Cuban Political Prisoners / Cubalex

Luis Felipe Rojas

Cruzar las alambradas
Crossing the Barbed Wire

Volver al blog

Hambrientos y con el culo mojao

Hambrientos y con el culo mojao

El escritor, en su cubil

El escritor, en su cubil

‘Empress’ Sissi Goes to Prison in Cuba / Luis Felipe Rojas

Retaliation Against Prisoner Who Reported Terrible Conditions of Forced Labor / Luis Felipe Rojas

Prisoners or Paramilitaries? Testimonies From Cuban Prisons / Luis Felipe Rojas

Report: Prostitution a la Carte in Cuba / Luis Felipe Rojas

"Fatal attraction" Magali Alabau’s Riddles / Luis Felipe Rojas

Cuban Law Association

Asociación Jurídica Cubana
Cuban Law Association

We are moving / Cuban Law Association

School Violence and Social and Legal Indiscipline in Cuba / Dayanara Vega, Cuban Law Association

At Any Price / Wilfredo Vallin Almeida, Cuban Law Association

Travel Insurance is not a Trustworthy Contract / Edilio Hernandez Herrera, Cuban Law Association

Another Unfulfilled Promise / Cuban Law Association, Dayanara Vega

Rafael León Rodríguez

El candil de Rafa
Rafa's Lamp

Panama Declaration / Rafael León Rodríguez

February Declaration / Rafael León Rodríguez

Resolution 4 on Human Rights / Rafael León Rodríguez

Cuban Authorities Block Seven Activists From Traveling to Mexico for Democracy Action Meeting

End of Year Declaration / Rafael León Rodríguez

Voices Behind the Bars

Voces Tras Las Rejas
Voices Behind The Bars
El Guarijo Azul

Retazos
Retazos / Fragments

Sunday Anguish

Sunday Anguish

Life of Sisyphus – Part Nine

Life of Sisyphus – Part Nine

Life of Sisyphus – Part Eight

Yamil Dominguez

Injusticia notoria
Notorious Injustice

Justice for Rolando

Justice for Rolando

My New Beginning

My New Beginning

Total Injustice

Jorge Luis García Pérez Antunez

Ni me callo, ni me voy
I Won't Shut Up, I'm Not Leaving

Gorki Águila: “The Castro Regime Wants To Mutate Into A Perfect Tyranny” / EFE – 14ymedio

Orlando Zapata Tamayo Civic Resistance Front Holds Congress in Havana / Cubanet, Arturo Rojas Rodriguez

Antonio Rodiles Arrives in Miami After Being Unable to Leave Cuba for 8 Months / 14ymedio

About 70 Ladies in White and Activists Arrested Sunday / 14ymedio

Estado de Sats… for our Spanish-speaking viewers

Katia Sonia

Kubasepia
KubaSepia (English)

Leandro Cesar Mastrapa Igarza and Alexis Zayas Guillen were Ordained as Deacons

Leandro Cesar Mastrapa Igarza and Alexis Zayas Guillen were Ordained as Deacons

Leandro Cesar Mastrapa Igarza and Alexis Zayas Guillen were Ordained as Deacons/ Katia Sonia

Response to a Manipulation / Katia Sonia

Response to a Manipulation / Katia Sonia Martin

Jose Antonio Garcia

Indocubanos
IndoCubans

Henry Constantin

Reportes de viajes
Travel Reports

Pedro Luis

Fotos desde Cuba
Photos From Cuba

Cuban Activists Discuss the Diplomatic Normalization with the United States / 14ymedio

Photo of Cuban Cardinal: Jamie Ortega

Photo of Cuban Cardinal: Jamie Ortega

Castro to be Special Guest Today on Cuban TV

Fidel Appears on Cuban TV: PHOTOS

Ricardo Medina

Ombudsman Cuba
Ombudsman Cuba / English

2nd of November-Day of the Dead / Ricardo Medina

Our Lady of Mercy / Ricardo Medina

A Young Man’s Life Endangered Because of the Holidays

CUBA, Talitá’ cum – I speak to you / Ricardo Medina

CUBA, Talit’ cum – I speak to you / Ricardo Medina



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Cuba and the Enslaving System of Two Currencies / Yusnaby Perez

Internet for the Cuban Opposition is Possible / Yusnaby Perez

The Embargo / Yusnaby Perez

Cubans are Prohibited from Boarding Tourist Boats / Yusnaby Perez

Counterrevolutionary / Yusnaby Perez

Dora Leonor Mesa

Plapliplo lecciones
Plaplipol English

Two Cuban Activists Prohibited from Traveling to OAS Human Rights Meeting

Prague Happily Infects its Visitors / Dora Leonor Mesa

Missing People / Dora Leonor Mesa

Cuban Toy Thieves Knockout Three Kings Day / Dora Leonor Mesa

Cuban Toy Thieves Knockout Three Kings Day / Dora Leonor Mesa

Lilianne Ruíz

El Blog de Jeronimo
Lilianne's Blog Posts

Speaking of Human Rights Talks Between the US and Cuban Governments… / Lilianne Ruíz

The Virgin According to the Popes / Lilianne Ruíz

Coco Farinas Lost Consciousness Again / Lilianne Ruíz

Guillermo "Coco" Farinas; Hunger and Thirst Strike Continues / Lilianne Ruíz

“The opposition has not matured,” Laments Martha Beatriz Roque / 14ymedio, Lilianne Ruiz

HemosOido

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Translating Cuba

Díaz-Canel: Killer of Illusions / Cubanet, Luis Cino Alvarez

Barbara’s Helplessness / Odalina Guerrero Lara, Cuban Law Association

The Day Cuba Changed #RosaMariaPaya #OswaldoPaya #AngelCarromero #AronModig / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

The Thankless Task of a Dauphin / Yoani Sanchez

Today, February 13, is Laura Pollan’s 64th Birthday / Mario Barroso

Guillermo Fariñas

Huelga de hambre
Hunger Strike

Guillermo Farinas Released But Will Not be Allowed to Leave Santa Clara in the Coming Days

The Controversy Over The Identity Of The Clandestinos Is Growing

Opposition Alliance Calls To Open An Inclusive National Dialog / 14ymedio

European Parliament’s “Fariñas Amendment” Never Existed / 14ymedio

Guillermo Fariñas Abandons His Hunger Strike / 14ymedio

IntraMuros

IntraMuros
IntraMuros (English)

Declaration of “Convivencia” Magazine on the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations Between Cuba and the U.S.

Declaration of “Convivencia” Magazine on the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations Between Cuba and the U.S.

Declaration of “Convivencia” Magazine on the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations Between Cuba and the U.S.

Poland’s Solidarity With Cuban Civil Society / Intramuros, Dagoberto Valdes

Poland’s Solidarity With Cuban Civil Society / Intramuros, Dagoberto Valdes

Eugenio Leal

Veritas
Veritas (English)

Claudia Cadelo

Octavo Cerco
Octavo Cerco English

My Videos of Wendy and Ignacio’s Wedding

Long Vacations and My First Story

Gimme Light

What More Could One Ask For?

Habits

Regina Coyula

Mala letra
Bad Handwriting

The Reclusive Poet / Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Regina Coyula

Cuba: Anatomy of Fear / Regina Coyula

Among the Lines / Regina Coyula

The Usefulness of the Tongue / Regina Coyula

Imperialism or Twitter Trolls: Who’s to Blame? / Regina Coyula

Laritza Diversent

Jurisconsulto de Cuba
Laritza's Laws

Stricter Rules For The Advancement And Protection Of Human Rights / Laritza Diversent

Laritza Diversent and Cubalex Begin Their Life In Exile

Broken Dreams / Cubalex

‘El Sexto’ Moved to a Criminal Prosecution Center / 14ymedio

Amnesty International Calls For “Urgent Action” to Support Cubalex /14ymedio, Miami

Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado

La rosa descalza
Barefoot Rosa

Commemoration or Celebration? / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado

Obama’s Visit / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado

Same Hatred, Different Collar / Rosa Maria Rodriguez

Dreaming in Color / Rosa Maria Rodriguez

To Die of Hunger / Rosa Maria Rodriguez

Fernando Dámaso

Mermelada
Mermelada / Marmalade

Plowing the Sea? / Fernando Damaso

Customer Care / Fernando Damaso

Tales Along the Way / Fernando Damaso

Something to Think About / Fernando Damaso

Jose Marti, from Apostle to ‘Pret-A-Porter’ / Fernando Damaso

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Lunes de Post Revolution
Post Revolution Mondays

I Love You Not Despite But Precisely Because of the Tyranny / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Islands / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Oswaldo Paya and the Varela Project / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Being Saint Louis / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

A Conversation with Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo / Regina Anavy

Ángel Santiesteban

Los Hijos Que Nadie Quiso
The Children Nobody Wanted

Mexicans Flee From the Cuban Abdala Vaccine and Line Up for the Pfizer

Angel Santiesteban’s Personal War

Cuban Writer Angel Santiesteban Receives the Vaclav Havel Award for Creative Dissent

When The Intellectuals Supported “The Terror Of Castrismo.” Seventeen Years After The “Message From Havana.”

The Book Fair: A Communist Vanity Project / Angel Santiesteban

Silvio Benítez Márquez

Desde la punta brava
From La Punta Brava

Silvio Benitez and the Dissidence

Permission is Granted to Add a Discussion in the Neighborhoods About the Petition to Modify the Actual Elections System

Permission is Granted to Add a Discussion in the Neighborhoods About the Petition to Modify the Actual Elections System / Silvio Benítez Márquez

Meeting to Spread the Initiative

Neighborhood Spokespeople Receive Answers to Citizen Demands

Ernesto Morales Licea

El pequeño hermano
The Little Brother

The (Naked) King of Little Havana / Ernesto Morales

The End

On the Steps of Nila: Bayley, Cortes and Mega TV

Man Convicted in Bayamao Child Prostitution Ring is on Hunger Strike

Cubans and the Lessons from Myanmar

Rebeca Monzo

Por el ojo de la aguja
Through the Eye of the Needle

The Bureaucracy Hinders the National Production of Masks

A Lost Gastronomic Legacy / Rebeca Monzo

100% Habanera

500th Anniversary of the City of Havana

500th Anniversary of the City "Nightmare" / Rebeca Monzo

Miguel Iturría Savón

Ancla Insular
Island Anchor

Francis Sánchez

Hombre en las nubes
Man in the Clouds

"Resisting For the Sake of Resisting Makes No Sense"

A Candle Lit by Assef and His Poetry / Francis Sanchez

All the Good Decimistas Write… Poetry? / Francis Sanchez

Depressed But Happy? / Francis Sanchez

Why Am I (Again) “in the clouds”? / Francis Sanchez

Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

Puertas Abiertas en Cuba
Open Doors in Cuba

Enrique Colina: Utopian Obstinacy Turns Dreams into a Nightmare / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

A Heartfelt Loss / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

USA Commemorates the Birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

All Rights for All Families / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

South Africa Reports Alarming Increase in HIV among Adolescents / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

Iván García

La Carpeta de Iván
Iván's File Cabinet

Cooking Gas Is Also Lacking In Cuba

Crony Capitalism in Cuba

Testimony of Lazaro Yuri Valle Roca Currently Being Held at Combinado del Este Prison / Ivan Garcia

The Ordeal of Cuban Dissidents / Ivan Garcia

Shipments to Cuba to be Paid for in Miami

Miriam Celaya

Sin Evasion
Without Evasion

Latin America: Peace in the Abstract

Transition, Cuban Style / Cubanet, Miriam Celaya

Millionaire Guerrillas and Angelic Drug Traffickers / Miriam Celaya

Preliminary Weighing of an Announced Succession / Cubanet, Miriam Celaya

Corruption, the End of Impunity and the Latin American Political Street Gangs

Juan Juan Almeida

La voz del Morro
The Voice of El Morro

Secret Video Shows the Deterioration of Castro Enclave ‘Punto Cero’* / Juan Juan Almeida

Details of ‘Operation Hatuey,’ a Plan by Castro’s High Ranking Officials, Are Revealed / Juan Juan Almeida

Cuban Regime Expropriates My Sister’s House, But Celebrates My Father’s Birthday / Juan Juan Almeida

Bringing Fidel Castro Back From the Dead in Havana / Juan Juan Almeida

Raul Castro Reappears after Reports of Illness Are Leaked / Juan Juan Almeida