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Parroquia y botica, la Iglesia católica intenta aliviar la crisis de medicamentos en Sancti Spíritus

Reportan tres nuevos feminicidios, dos en Holguín y uno en Matanzas

Una mujer muere en Placetas a manos de su marido, que después se suicidó

Los remedios naturales también se extinguen en las farmacias cubanas

Reactivan el tren de Holguín a Guantánamo tras meses parado por falta de combustible

Muere en México el curador, guionista y poeta cubano Osvaldo Sánchez Crespo

Cuba sufre su primera derrota en la Copa Mundial de béisbol Sub-18

Fallece un niño de cinco años en Santiago de Cuba después de ingerir un medicamento caducado

Fallece a los 64 años el caricaturista cubano Humberto Lázaro Miranda Ramírez (LAZ)

Una nueva avería en la Guiteras augura un peor déficit del previsto por la Unión Eléctrica de Cuba

Contactos aplazados y silencios: la incomunicación que deja el ‘tarifazo’ de Etecsa

Mientras la economía cubana se hunde, el grupo español Vima aumenta sus ingresos en la Isla

Duannis León Taboada depone la huelga de hambre tras ser visitado por su madre

Muere en La Habana Aris Teresa Bruzos, la simpática ‘Evarista’ de ‘Vivir del cuento’

El rapero Nando OBDC se mantiene en huelga de hambre y está incomunicado

El Inder premia al entrenador de Mijaín López con un carro de uso con golpes y gomas gastadas

Un nuevo feminicidio en Cienfuegos eleva a 19 los asesinatos machistas en Cuba en 2025

Regresa la Mariposa: promesas, ruinas y nostalgia en el parque Lenin de La Habana

No hubo apagón en el acto del 26 de Julio, pero tampoco ideas para superar la crisis

Ambulancias chinas y triciclos fúnebres, respuesta tardía al deterioro de estos servicios

El Estado cubano debe unos 20 millones de dólares a los apicultores por las exportaciones de miel

En Cuba no todas la palomas son iguales: unas tienen estatuas, otras terminan en la olla

Muere en Miami el ex prisionero político y sindicalista cubano Siro del Castillo

Silvio Rodríguez dará inicio a su gira latinoamericana con un concierto en la Universidad de La Habana

Sin rastro de los secuestradores de tres cubanos en Cancún

Un pelotero cubano cobra la prima y abandona su contrato en Grandes Ligas

Ocho meses tardaron en ser contratados tres balonmanistas cubanos que ‘desertaron’ en 2024

Murieron muchas gallinas porque les quitaron el pienso para dárselo al camarón

Pese a las promesas de las autoridades, el puente giratorio de Matanzas no ha sido rescatado aún

Las autoridades cubanas detienen al presunto autor de un feminicidio en Holguín

El reglamento del Clásico Mundial desmiente al oficialismo sobre la exigencia de pasaporte a peloteros cubanos

El grupo español Alto Cedro registra pérdidas por sus actividades en Cuba

La policía política golpea al escritor Jorge Fernández Era durante una detención

El Parlamento cubano elimina el requisito de tener hasta 60 años para ser presidente

Salud Pública advierte del aumento de casos de dengue, coronavirus y tuberculosis este verano

“Se trabaja para la solución definitiva” de los apagones, asegura el ministro de Energía

De escaramuza en escaramuza, el castrismo ha probado su fracaso

Una estudiante de Medicina es asesinada por su pareja en Santiago de Cuba

Los autos estatales no hacen caso a los inspectores en la ciudad de Matanzas

Luis Conte Agüero, la voz cubana que desafió al poder, muere a los 101 años

Segundo Encuentro Internacional con el Libro Cubano Exiliado

El Gobierno de EE UU denuncia un alza del 830% en las agresiones a sus agentes migratorios

La Industria Alimentaria cubana se hunde en una crisis que supera a la de 2024

Los turistas ya no van a Cuba porque no hay comida, admite el ministro del ramo

Los miserables

Problemas electorales

The Average Daily Power Outage in Cuba Was Almost 16 Hours in July and 15 in August

Acosta Dance, the Company of Cuban Dancer Carlos Acosta, Celebrates Ten Years of ‘Dedication’ Onstage

Cuba Is Experiencing Its Third Day of General Blackout, With Sporadic Moments of Light

Elections Under Castrochavismo

“Someone Said That There Would Be Gas for Everyone, and There Isn’t Any”: Indignation in the Line for Propane in Matanzas

Electricity in Cuba Is a Prize and Life is Spent Waiting for It

Cuban Opponent José Daniel Ferrer Remains “Under Threat of Death” in Prison

In Matanzas, a Teacher Swapped Chalk for Bricks To Build Her Own House

Small Private Companies Are Gaining Ground in the Shipping Business in Matanzas

Cuban Dissident Félix Navarro Is Isolated in Prison in a So-Called Infirmary

A Desperate Mother Travels Through Havana in Search of Her Daughter Who Disappeared Four Months Ago

Venezuela Sent Twice As Much Oil to the U.S. Than to Cuba in August

Díaz-Canel Promises China a ‘Better Business Environment’ in Cuba, as He Did With Vietnam

In a Triumphalist Report, Canal Caribe Inflates the Data for Oil Production in Cuba

The Inconceivable Collection of Dr. Prat

The World Sees “What We Are Suffering” in Cuba, Says Lady in White Berta Soler

The Cuban Miracle in Trigueros Comes at a Disturbing Price

Cuban Journalist José Gabriel Barrenechea is Facing a Six-Year Sentence Requested by the Villa Clara Prosecutor’s Office

The Foreign Ministers of Cuba and Poland Clash on Social Media Over the Award Given to a Cuban Dissident

Leonardo Padura Presents a Novel in Madrid That Portrays the Disaster of Cuba

The Cuban Regime Remains Silent on the Deaths of Two Recruits Serving in Havana

While the Rest of the World Is Experiencing a Tourism Boom, Cuba’s Revenues Are Falling by Almost 21 Percent

In Cuba, a Doctor Earns More Money Breeding Flies Than Practicing His Profession

Cuban Specialists Treat Patients in Oaxaca Without Accreditation in Mexico

Outside Havana, Cubans Live an Existence Without Electricity, Exhausted and Sleepless

Family Members Defend the Director of a State Company Convicted of Embezzlement

A Study Identifies 108 Marine Species at Risk of Extinction in Cuba

The Chic Area of ​​Matanzas, Cuba, is Today Barely a Memory

Death of a 28-Year-Old Boy Struck by Lightning in Colón, Matanzas, Cuba

From a Very Poor Country That Received Aid From Cuba, Vietnam Is Now One of the Island’s Benefactors

The New School Year Starts in Cuba With Full Classrooms, Few Teachers and Empty Backpacks

Cuba Bought $205 Million in Food from the US Between January and May

Former Cuban Regime Jailer Jorge Luis Vega Receives Deportation Order From the US

Trump, the Strategic Playing Board and the Cuba Effect

Due to a Lack of Reagents in Hospitals, Cubans Do Not Know if They Have Oropuuche or Dengue Fever

For the New School Year in Cuba, Everything is Missing and Some Schools Will Not Open Their Doors

Only Some 20 Tobacco Growers Accepted Tabacuba’s Offer To Exchange Their MLC for a Car

Sancti Spíritus Has the Highest Teacher Shortage in Cuba

Cuban Shot Putter Emanuel Ramirez Escapes in Paraguay

With the Reservoirs Dry, the Water That Reaches Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, Is Dirty and ‘Has a Bad Smell’

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

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

Cuba: observatorios y organizaciones independientes comparten preocupación por el agravamiento de la crisis humanitaria tras el colapso energético 

¿Educar o adoctrinar? El Estado cubano obliga a niñas, niños y adolescentes a firmar apoyo al régimen de Venezuela

Muerte bajo custodia en Cuba: el caso de Leudis Ramos Mejías

Régimen impone un año sin visitas al preso político Amalio Álvarez

Presos políticos en huelga de hambre denuncian condiciones inhumanas y abandono estatal

Cuba: Inmate Dies in Melena Del Sur Prison Due to Lack of Medical Care / Cubalex

Concern Over Possible Suspension of Release Process for Political Prisoners in Cuba / Cubalex

Yunaikis de la Caridad Linares, 11J Prisoner, Faces Isolation and Threats in Havana Prison

Cuban Political Prisoner Pedro Albert Sánchez on Hunger Strike in Havana / Cubalex

We Denounce the Increasing Repression of Independent Journalists in Cuba / Cubalex

Luis Felipe Rojas

Cruzar las alambradas
Crossing the Barbed Wire

Hambrientos y con el culo mojao

Volver al blog

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

Iván García

La Carpeta de Iván
Iván's File Cabinet

Cuba, menos maestros y más adoctrinamiento en las escuelas

Cuba: corrupción, violencia y cacería de brujas

Cuando ser homosexual era un delito en Cuba

París 2024, el peor desempeño del deporte cubano

Cruzada contra los negocios privados privados en Cuba

Public Health Collapses in Cuba / Iván García

How Do the Cubans Live Who Don’t Receive Any Dollars? / Iván García

The Private Sector in Cuba Up Against the Wall / Iván García

Cuba, Fewer Teachers and More Indoctrination in Schools / Iván García

Cooking Gas Is Also Lacking In Cuba

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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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

The Expulsion of Writer Ángel Santiesteban Opens a New Crisis in Cuban Masonry

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.”

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

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