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Abandonado durante años, El Golfito de Alamar reabrirá “a inicios del verano”

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

La calabaza, de arrastrarse por los suelos a subirse a la carroza de la inflación

La cifra de presos políticos alcanzó en abril los 1.100, según Prisoners Defenders

El declive de Bejucal, la joya azucarera cubana que se convirtió en otro pueblo fantasma

Dos ahogamientos y un asesinato en una semana trágica para Santiago de Cuba

Cuba produce un tercio de la leche de vaca que obtuvo en 1989 y el 60% de la carne

Los traficantes, prostitutas y ‘yarinis’ de Holguín tienen su base de operaciones en la Marqueta

La plana mayor del Gobierno recibe al primer vuelo de Air China entre Pekín y La Habana

El sacerdote Alberto Reyes toca las campanas de su parroquia como protesta contra los apagones

Tras las protestas en Baracoa, la Unión Eléctrica asegura tener una estrategia contra los “molestos apagones”

La oferta comercial de las ‘pymes’ provoca la decadencia de la MLC

’14ymedio’ prepara un especial por su décimo aniversario el próximo 21 de mayo. ¡Participe!

Una rara grabación de un concierto de Celia Cruz en los 80 verá la luz este mayo

El Banco Central de Cuba recibe un crédito internacional para combatir el lavado de dinero y el terrorismo

Uruguay regularizará a miles de cubanos con un programa de residencia por arraigo

El éxodo de peloteros juveniles no se detiene, a sus 14 años Javier Fiallo aterriza Dominicana

Unas pocas langostas y una comitiva de ‘yumas’ coinciden en el mercado de 19 y B

El estadio Calixto García de Holguín cierra parte de sus gradas por peligro de derrumbe

La Policía exhibe viejos casos en los medios oficiales para mostrar cómo “da respuesta” a la delincuencia

Meliá crea una empresa importadora para asegurar el “alto estándar” de sus hoteles en Cuba

Las ‘mipymes’ de Pinar del Río rescatan de la ruina a la Empresa Láctea, desatendida por el Estado

El Congreso español se posiciona contra la represión en Cuba en una votación muy ajustada

La Policía cubana desmantela dos estafas millonarias en Santa Clara

La fuga de Omar Toledano arruina el festejo oficialista por el pase del equipo cubano de balonmano al Mundial

Las tiendas en divisas son prohibitivas para la mayoría del pueblo de Matanzas

Hasta ocho años de prisión por robo con violencia para varios jóvenes en Pinar del Río

“Los peces se pueden coger con la mano” por la sequía en Zaza, el mayor embalse de Cuba

Sherritt y Antilles Gold enfrentan una crisis financiera que amenaza sus inversiones en Cuba

Cuba importó en marzo nueve veces más carne de pollo desde EE UU de la que produjo el Estado en 2022

México otorga tarjeta de residencia por razones humanitarias a los cubanos rescatados en Tamaulipas

EE UU prevé aplicar nuevos filtros durante las entrevistas de “miedo creible” a los solicitantes de asilo

El “desfile de la derrota” de un viejo soldado cubano por La Habana

Madre solo hay una, pero tiene que tener dinero: lecciones de una feria en La Habana

Western Union reanuda las remesas a Cuba sin explicar por qué suspendió el servicio

El Gobierno cubano autoriza a tres empresas de República Dominicana a exportar huevos y pollo a la Isla

Muere Roberto López, ex preso político cubano, tras años viviendo en las calles de Cádiz

El mandatario cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel desea “éxitos” a Putin en la guerra de Ucrania

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

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

Una treintena de heridos en un accidente de tránsito en Holguín

Criminales transnacionales

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

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

‘Che’ Guevara’s Daughter Attacks Small/Private Businesses and Accuses Them of ‘Facilitating the Entry of Drugs’ Into Cuba

The Mother of Two Protesters From Caimanera Denounces Inconsistencies on the Part of the Prosecutor’s Office During the Trial

The Trial Against the Caimanera Protesters in Cuba Begins Behind Closed Doors and Under a Strong Security Operation

Cuba: ‘The Only Eastern Country in the Heart of the West’

A Total of 95,500 Cubans Have Received the U.S. ‘Humanitarian Parole’

Cuba Receives 23 Rafters Returned by the United States and 545 From Several Countries in 2024

A Spanish Bank Leaves Cuba as a Russian Bank Opens Offices in Havana

An Expert From the Cuban Regime Defends ‘El Toque’: ‘The Economy Is Not a Game for Propagandists’

Cuba’s University of Oriente Is Alarmed After Studying the ‘Migrant Dream’ of Children

Cuban Political Police Interrogate Dagoberto Valdés About an Alleged ‘Operation’ Against the Regime

‘Propaganda Artist’ Tours Havana’s Agricultural Markets

The US Criticizes the ‘Outrageous’ Sentences Imposed on the Nuevitas Protesters in Cuba

Musician Gorki Aguila Arrives in Mexico After Days of Uncertainty Over His Exit From Cuba

Cuban President Díaz-Canel Explains His Theory About the ‘Blockade’ in Another ‘Two-Voice Monologue’ With Ramonet

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry Says That ‘It Is Not Enough’ To Be Taken Off the List of Countries That Do Not Cooperate Against Terrorism

Cuba Seeks To Confront the Food Debacle With Capital From the United States and Spain

The United States Revokes the Humanitarian Parole of a Former Senior Official of the Cuban Regime

Nine-Years in Prison for the Cuban Who Wrote ‘Diaz-Canel Motherfucker’ on a Wall

The Lack of Electricity Paralyzes Businesses and Life in Matanzas, Cuba

Washington Removes Cuba From the List of Countries That ’Do Not Cooperate’ With Its Efforts Against Terrorism

Reactionary and Intransigent

How To Forget Cuba in Three Tries

With the Traffic Lights Out and a ‘Swimming Pool’ Size Pothole, Disorder Takes Over the Streets of El Cerro in Havana

Jose Daniel Ferrer’s Jailers Stop His Family From Visiting Him One More Time

New Trash Dumps and Puddles Like Lakes, the Hygiene Situation in Matanzas, Cuba

The Deadliest Motto of the Cuban Revolution is Fading Little by Little

Panama’s President-Elect Wants to Close the Darien Jungle Route and Deport the Migrants

Mexico Accelerates Its Import of Cuban Doctors To Reach the ‘Goal’ of 1,200

The Successful Privately Owned Ice Cream Brand, Helado’s Cid, Opens a Location in the Heart of Havana

Cuba Condemns US for the Acquittal of the Cuban Man Who Attacked Its Embassy in Washington

The Nightlife of Matanzas, Unsuited to Cubans, Migrates to Varadero

In Cuba Entrepreneurs From Holguin Come Together To Try To Artificially Lower the Dollar

The Food Industry in Cuba Has Fallen 67 Percent in the Last Five Years

European Union Is ‘Concerned’ About the Disproportionate Sentences of the Nuevitas Protesters in Cuba

Blackouts of More Than 12 Hours in Cuba, Hopeless Heat, Lack of Fuel and Out-of-Service Power Plants

Mexico Invested 133 Million Dollars To Contain Migration in Several Countries, Including Cuba

The Government Exports 90 Percent of the Island’s Honey, Which Cubans Must Buy ‘On The Left’

Cuba, a ‘Paradise’ of Misery That Is Beginning To Scare Canadians

A 28-Year-Old Mother is Murdered by Her Partner in Villa Clara, Cuba

The Kremlin Keeps Cuban President Diaz-Canel Comfortable on the Eve of His Meeting with Putin and Sends Greetings to Raul Castro

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

Cubalex registra escalada represiva contra activistas y periodistas en Pinar del Río

Tribunal Provincial de La Habana desestima solicitud de habeas corpus a favor de José Luis Tan Estrada

Detenciones arbitrarias y confiscaciones: Represión a la libertad de expresión en Cuba

Trasladan a Alexander Díaz Rodríguez, preso político, a campamento de trabajo forzado

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

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

Other Texts to Translate
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