Cuba's Labor Minister claimed there are no beggars in the nation, drawing criticism from President Miguel Díaz-Canel. He highlighted visible poverty as a symptom of wider social inequality. The comments were made amidst economic hardships affecting the Cuban population,

Cuba’s crucial and struggling tourism industry was hit with more US sanctions, as President Donald Trump’s administration ratchets up pressure on the communist-run island and its top officials.

Lina Luaces, center, is hugged by all the contestants after she being crowned Miss Universe Cuba 2025 during the beauty pageant at Milander Park on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Hialeah, Fla. Photo by Matias J. Ocner [email protected]

Cuba's power grid has ground to a halt for a second time in as many days, leaving 10 million on the island without power and the Caribbean island in a growing sense of crisis. World.

MANGUITO, CUBA – The majority of Marcos Perez’s friends fled the country last year. Now, he and his family are pooling their money to do the same. “Only a few of my friends are left, the ...

Cuba’s free fall has been accelerated by the pandemic: Over the last three years, Cuba’s financial reserves have dwindled, and it has struggled to stock store shelves.

Facing worsening economic prospects, the Cuban government will allow joint ventures between state enterprises and local private companies, as well as what it calls “selective swap” operations with foreign companies, involving hotels and real estate, the country’s prime minister said in a speech before the National Assembly on Wednesday.

In the two years since relations between the U.S. and Cuba were normalized under President Barack Obama, a growing number of lung cancer patients traveled to Cuba for a vaccine called Cimavax, and ...