Coupled with severe shortages of food, medicine and water have made life increasingly unbearable for many Cubans – who in recent years have fled the island in record-breaking numbers.

"Cuba's labor export programs, which include the medical missions, enrich the Cuban regime, and in the case of Cuba's overseas medical missions, deprive ordinary Cubans of the medical care they ...

Cubans Turn to Cooking With Charcoal as Energy Crisis Worsens SAN NICOLAS DE BARI (Reuters) -For Maria Elena Veiga, a 60-year-old Cuban housewife living on the outskirts of Havana, charcoal has ...