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Una empleada de hotel en Colombia es acusada de traficar y hospedar a migrantes, varios cubanos

Cuba sufre una nueva derrota en béisbol frente a Curazao

La casa donde Evo Morales abusaba de menores en La Paz era custodiada por cubanos

Los pésimos datos de la economía cubana no permiten una mejora ni a corto, ni a medio plazo

Ajenos a la profunda crisis en Cuba, los turistas checos inauguran los vuelos de Praga a Holguín

La col, antigua protagonista de los almuerzos escolares, se aleja de los bolsillos cubanos

“Se hubieran salvado vidas”: los vecinos de Guantánamo denuncian la negligencia del Gobierno cubano

Solo 15 centrales azucareros participarán este año en la zafra, que se anticipa desastrosa

Judas Tadeo, patrono de las causas desesperadas, tiene sobrecarga de trabajo en Cuba

Altos mandos del Ejército cubano negocian en Argelia un acuerdo de cooperación militar

Solo 300 cubanos recibieron ‘parole’ humanitario en septiembre, la cifra más baja del programa

El crimen político que no amilana a los venezolanos

Por temor a las pedradas, en Holguín mantienen tapadas las vidrieras de las tiendas en divisas

Una trabajadora de la Universidad de Oriente, nueva víctima de violencia machista en Santiago de Cuba

Un tribunal de EE UU da una victoria parcial a cuatro navieras por el uso del puerto de La Habana

Un médico mexicano pide a un empresario que lo saque de una Cuba con apagón y sin alimentos

Con más de 30 años cumplidos en la cárcel, Miguel Díaz Bauzá es el preso político más antiguo en Cuba

Reportan dos nuevos feminicidios en Cuba; suman cuatro en dos semanas

Díaz-Canel y Marrero llegan a Guantánamo sin entrar a la zona más afectada por el huracán Oscar

Hasta agosto, las importaciones de pollo desde EE UU cayeron un 35% respecto a 2023

El ministro de Salud inaugura en Angola un hospital donde trabajan 20 médicos cubanos

El óxido y los muros agrietados amenazan al estadio de béisbol de Río Cauto, en Granma

Cuarto día de apagón en Cuba, con protestas, amenazas de Díaz-Canel y llegada del huracán Oscar

Menos del 40% de Cuba tiene corriente el quinto día de apagón, la mayoría en La Habana

to do- wouldn’t load — Cacerolazos en varias ciudades de Cuba en protesta por el apagón general

La coreógrafa española Susana Pous, 25 años de adioses a una juventud cubana “desesperada”

A ver si tiene

Para sacar a Maduro de Venezuela hay que contar con Cuba, dice el ex canciller mexicano Jorge Castañeda

En Holguín, los cubanos se lanzan en masa a comprar gas licuado ante la cercanía del huracán Oscar

Bolivia se solidariza con Cuba por los apagones y ve en ellos un intento de desestabilizar a Díaz-Canel

Muere de un infarto en prisión Gerardo Díaz Alonso, detenido durante el 11J en Cárdenas

México insiste en vacunar con la cubana Abdala, sin actualizar contra las nuevas variantes del covid-19

Asesinada en Santiago de Cuba una mujer por su ex marido, denunciado por agresión

Miles de personas sin agua en Trinidad desde 2020 por un impago de Cuba a un acreedor extranjero

Los cubanos pudieron comer merluza peruana gracias a la Seguridad del Estado

Los ganaderos de Villa Clara entregan 60.000 litros de leche al día, el 40% de hace un año

El runrún de la muerte de Raúl Castro dominó los rumores de septiembre

Sin docentes ni tableros, Cuba intenta rescatar la formación de ajedrecistas desde la primaria

Correos de Cuba se desentiende de los paquetes robados

Cuba dedica la Jornada de la Cultura al escritor Alejo Carpentier y a los instructores de arte

La industria militar cubana se ha convertido en fabricante de material para la hotelera Gaviota

Guerra cultural

La Cancillería protesta por la liberación del cubano que disparó contra su embajada en Washington

La Tercera Alternativa

“Da lo mismo que haya triciclos nuevos en La Habana, también dependen de los apagones”

La española DIT Gestión llevará 400 turoperadores y 4.500 kilogramos de “ayudas” a Cuba

Havana Vetoes the Return to the Island of Iván Márquez, FARC Leader and Fugitive From Justice

Cancun Has Everything that Cuba Lacks

In Sancti Spíritus the Public Lighting Died Long Before the Total Blackout

Miguel Díaz Bauzá Has Served 10,957 Days in Prison in Cuba

‘We Have Managed To Make Noise in Spain’ With the Film About ‘Patria y Vida’ and Cuba

Canadian Archaeologists Unravel the Mysteries of the Taínos of Los Buchillones in Cuba

Theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, Who Saw in Fidel Castro a Model for the Continent, Has Died

‘Escambray’ Justifies the Postponement of the National Series and the Elite Baseball League in Cuba

Canadian Tourists Losing Desire to Visit Cuba

Cuba: The Methodist Church of Guantánamo Welcomes Dozens of People Evacuated After the Floods

Dozens of Cubans Attend the Burial of El Taiger’s Ashes in the Colón Cemetery

La Plaza de Armas, Tourist Heart of Havana, Is Dying

In the Middle of a National Blackout, the Cuban Regime Hands Out Electric Motorbikes to Olympic Medallists

The Hiring of Cuban Doctors in Mexico Continues as Another 173 Arrive in Quintana Roo

With No Time To Recover From Hurricane Oscar, Baracoa Cuba Suffers Floods Due to Heavy Rains

Military Conscientious Objectors Call for the Creation of a Civic-Military Committee in Cuba

Cuba and 12 Other Countries Are Admitted to the BRICS Group As “Associate Members”

With Programmed ‘Alumbrones’ (Moments of Light) in Cuba, and Lines for Gas, Sancti Spíritus Returns to ‘Normalcy’

Requiem for Guantánamo

Cuba’s State Employees Are Given Orders to Address Any ‘Situation’ Arising from the Blackouts

Hurricane Oscar’s Devastation in Guantánamo Raises Fears in Cuba of More Victims

Lack of Communication With Family Abroad Is Another Traumatic Consequence of the Island-Wide Blackout in Cuba

More Than a Terminal Crisis, Cuba Suffers From Multi-Organ Fragility

Cuban President Díaz-Canel Cancels His Attendance at the BRICS Summit Due to the Collapse of the Cuban Electrical System

Hurricane Oscar’s Passage Through Eastern Cuba Leaves at Least Six Dead

The US Does Not Rule Out Providing Assistance to Cuba and Attributes the Blackouts to the ‘Mismanagement’ of the Regime

A Spoon, a Pair of Boots, and a Small Radio: The Political Prison Through Objects

Large Hotels Waste Electricity While Private Hostels Remain Without Customers

Lights Come Back On in Havana but Some Blocks Still Don’t Have Power

Six Young Baseball Players Flee Cuba in Just Three Days

Salt Fields Destroyed, Crops Damaged and up to 6,000 Affected by Hurricane Oscar in Eastern Cuba

The Blackouts and Lack of Fuel Have Ended What Was Left of Transport in Cuba

Without Announcing New Oil Shipments, Venezuela Asks the World To Support Cuba in the Face of the Blackouts

The Sacred Heart Meat Market Miraculously Gets a Shipment of Chicken

With Few Exceptions, Cuba Remains in Darkness Despite Effort to Reboot the Nation’s Power Plants

José Daniel Ferrer and Félix Navarro, Heroes of the Homeland in Cuba

In the Face of the Total Blackout, Wood Fires Are Lit Throughout Cuba To Save the Food

“At Least Until Wednesday, There Will Be No Electricty in Sancti Spíritus”

“Anyone Who Depends on the ‘Basic Family Basket’ in Cienfuegos Cannot Bathe”

María Corina Machado Denies Maduro’s statement: ‘I’m Here With the Venezuelans’

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 

Grave Estado de Salud del Preso Político Onaikel Infante Abreu en la Prisión Combinado del Este

Preso político Onaikel Infante Abreu: Un año en prisión sin juicio y en condiciones inhumanas

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Denuncias sobre la falta de agua y las condiciones insalubres en cárceles de Cuba

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

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

11J: Analysis of Racial Bias in Cuba’s Sedition Sanctions / Cubalex

Surveillance and Repression Operations in Guantanamo Following Power Outage Protest / Cubalex

Violation of Human Rights: Jorge Luis ‘Tangallo’ Rodríguez Valdés Is In a Punishment Cell / 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

Se desploma la salud pública en Cuba

Cuba: corrupción, violencia y cacería de brujas

Cuando ser homosexual era un delito en Cuba

París 2024, el peor desempeño del deporte cubano

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

Crony Capitalism 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

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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

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