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El nieto pelotero del general Guillermo García denuncia las complicaciones para enviar dólares a Cuba

Los privados de Sancti Spíritus racionan el pan ante la falta de harina de trigo

Regresa la feria de La Rampa habanera, con menos turistas y más baratijas chinas

La debacle energética derrite el poco helado que Coppelia ofrece a los cubanos

En plena crisis energética, desaparece uno de los poblados carboneros más productivos de Cuba

Los cubanos contribuyeron al aumento de 3.000.000 de migrantes irregulares en EE UU en cuatro años

Pese a las deportaciones, muchos cubanos siguen confiando en Trump para regularizar su situación

Quince años de cárcel para un ladrón por robar una moto después de agredir a su dueño a martillazos

Reparten azúcar donada por Brasil en las bodegas, mientras la zafra se anuncia pésima en Cuba

Muere a los 52 años el trovador cubano Eduardo Sosa después de sufrir un derrame cerebral

En Placetas, el subsidio soviético arruinó el mejor barrio de la época capitalista

Petro y el Catatumbo

Primicia en la Feria del Libro de La Habana: una obra de Lydia Cabrera, exiliada y proscrita por Fidel Castro

Rigo porque no lloro

Lejos quedan los tiempos cuando un platillo volador llegó a la Ciudad Deportiva en La Habana

Cuba y Rusia rodarán un filme sobre el tricampeón olímpico de boxeo Teófilo Stevenson

En La Habana, solo queda oxígeno para los enfermos en peligro de muerte

Pese al desmentido de Sotomayor, fuentes de su entorno dicen que es dueño de la pizzería multada por la Onat

Termina el Festival Jazz Plaza y la noche habanera vuelve a quedar en silencio

Yuri Buenaventura: “La Sonora Matancera es piedra angular en la música latinoamericana”

La cárcel política, una industria del castrismo

El encargado de negocios de EE UU en Cuba visita a José Daniel Ferrer y a su familia

La Casa de la Música de Cienfuegos recuerda más a una funeraria que a un local de baile

Cuba registra el primer fracaso de béisbol de 2025 en la Serie de las Américas

En Santa Clara, la leche “toma otros destinos” y no se entrega a Acopio

Guantánamo perdió 12.000 reses en 2024, entre ellas casi 9.000 vacas lecheras

La Aduana decomisa más de siete toneladas de alimentos importados en ocho meses

Cuba extiende hasta abril la exención arancelaria a alimentos, medicinas y otros básicos

Con todos los partidos perdidos, Cuba fracasa en la Copa Presidente de balonmano

K-Mart, primera tienda surcoreana en Cuba desde el reinicio de las relaciones diplomáticas

Cuba perdió casi un 10% de turistas en un año y un 52% desde 2018

“A los estudiantes de Medicina nos ponen a limpiar baños o cambiar bombillos”

La Policía desarticula una banda que robaba motos en Ciego de Ávila

En dos días, EE UU deportó a 735 migrantes de Cuba y otros siete países

La prensa oficialista vincula el aumento de la delincuencia en Cuba a la crisis económica

Muere Caridad Martínez, maestra de la radio cubana 

El régimen cubano niega sus beneficios carcelarios a Sissi Abascal y Sayli Navarro

El Estado cubano arruinó un edificio que comparte con la Iglesia en La Habana

Las autoridades mexicanas buscan a una treintena de balseros cubanos que llegaron a Isla Mujeres

‘53 Domingos’, a teatro lleno con la compañía Argos en el Hubert de Blanck

Tras otro año pésimo, el ministro de Turismo cubano apuesta a viajeros chinos, turcos o árabes

El régimen para las excarcelaciones el día en que Trump vuelve a meter a Cuba en la lista negra

Detienen en México a nueve cubanos que entregaron 22.500 dólares a coyotes para llegar a EE UU

Rumores de diciembre: complot contra Trump, debilidad de la cúpula cubana, muertos por el ‘químico’

La Policía culpa al chofer de uno de los ómnibus que chocaron en Morón, con un nuevo balance de siete muertos

Fallece el actor cubano Mario Limonta, que dio vida a Sandalio en ‘Alegrías de Sobremesa’

After More Than 26 Consecutive Hours Without Electricity in Cienfuegos, Cubans Fear a New National Blackout

Chaotic Hiring of Cuban Doctors by the Controversial University ‘For The Poor’ in Mexico

Dear Mario

Cuba: Woman Who Protested Against Blackouts in Mayabeque Dies in Prison

In Cuba, Only 2.9 Million Cattle Have Been Saved From Mismanagement and Cattle Thieves

Twenty Hours Without Electricity This Sunday in Cienfuegos, Cuba

One Month Before the Start of Baseball Season, the Elite League Has Criticized the Poor Condition of Several Cuban Stadiums

“Elon Musk Is Walking Around Like a Kid With a Torch” Hoping To Take Down US Public Media

With His Crusade Against the Private Sector in Holguín, Queipo Is Making Merits To Succeed Cuban President Díaz-Canel

An Exhibition Commemorates the Scientist Ramón Y Cajal, Who Worked as a Doctor With the Spanish Troops in Cuba

January Rumors: Trump Prepares to Invade Cuba and Díaz-Canel Agrees On an Escape Plan with Raul Castro

A Water Treatment Plant Is Inaugurated on Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud With the Help of Japan and a Basque NGO

On the Third Day of Coppelia’s Reopening, Everything Starts To Be Missing at the ‘Ice Cream Cathedral’

Cuba: A Bus With Czech Tourists Catches Fire in Topes de Collantes

The Cuban State Extends Its Business Network in Dollars With Mercalhabana and Alma Caribe

Two Senior Cienfuegos Officials Expelled From the Communist Party of Cuba for ‘Mistakes’ Made

The ‘Quimiqueros’ Take Over Las Tunas, Another Cuban City Affected by Drug Use

Cuba Paying More Than 300 Million Dollars a Year for Shiploads of Rice

The Return of European Cruises to Cuba Coincides With the Tourism Debacle

“We Have Reified José Martí to the Point of Exhaustion and Young People See Him as a Distant Reality”

Green Day

No News of Political Prisoners Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Maykel Castillo, Sissi Abascal or Sayli Navarro / 14yMedio

Western Union Suspends Money Transfers to Cuba Due to “Limitations” Imposed by Trump

Rejected by the United States, a Cuban Doctor and an Activist Seek To Stay in Mexico

Suspension of USAID Causes Alarm in the Free Press and Excitement in the Cuban State Press

“At the Meliá San Carlos Hotel in Cienfuegos, a Week Can Go By Without a Single Tourist Showing Up”

Cuban Human Rights Activist José Daniel Ferrer is Compared to Historic Figures Who ‘Left a Legacy’ Through Dialog

Police Surround the House of Cuban Opposition Leader José Daniel Ferrer, Who Did Not Respond to a Court Citation

Venezuelan Oil Shipments in January: Historic Minimum for Cuba and Maximum for US Chevron

Dialogue and Dictatorships: Cuba and the United States

Boarded Up and Roofless, Bola De Nieve’s House Suffers From Neglect in Guanabacoa, Cuba

Closed for Two Months, Havana’s Iconic Coppelia Ice Cream Parlor Is Resurrected With New Prices of Between 30 and 40 Pesos per Scoop

Overwhelmed by Garbage, the Inhabitants of Manzanillo Fear the Arrival of a New Epidemic

Several Cubans Are Among Dozens of Undocumented Immigrants Detained in Florida

Without Light and Without Hope, the People of Manzanillo, Cuba, Are Back in the Stone Age

Cuban President Díaz-Canel and His Foreign Minister Were Outraged That Marco Rubio Would Call Them “Enemies of Humanity”

The US Head of Mission in Cuba Visited the Opponent Martha Beatriz Roque in the Hospital

An Opposition Group Urges the EU To ‘Temporarily Suspend’ Its Agreement With Cuba

Cubans Are Prohibited From Visiting the Apartments of Foreign Students

Woman Stabbed to Death at Her Workplace, a Gas Station in Holguín, Cuba

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 

Otra muerte en la prisión de Boniato: reclusos en riesgo y sometidos a condiciones inhumanas 

Otra muerte en la prisión de Boniato: reclusos en riesgo y bajo condiciones inhumanas 

Violencia en las cárceles cubanas: Preso político Yurisnel Rodríguez Torres es agredido en prisión 

Fallecen dos reclusos en la prisión de Boniato por desnutrición y abandono

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

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

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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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

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