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Voices My family live in Cuba – the people may be poor, but Fidel Castro's legacy will live on. Here, the grandchildren of peasants really do go on to become consultant surgeons and commercial ...
In western Cuba, in the province of Pinar del Río, Lismary Mariño says she has been without water for more than a month. She has 55-liter buckets for cooking. When they are empty, she refills ...
Some 305,000 Cubans have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during the past year, most of them asking for asylum. Here is what life is like for the people left behind.
Now to Cuba, which is facing its worst economic crisis in decades. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have fled, but the people who stay are seeing glimmers of a free market. NPR's Eyder Peralta has ...
Ten people have died in Cuba as a result of Hurricane Irma, which passed over the north of the island over the weekend, Cuban state television announced.
A commonly repeated belief says that Cuba’s indigenous Taíno people were extirpated shortly after the Spanish conquest in 1511. Yet signs of living Taíno culture appear as my car bounces down ...
“People who live in Cuba love Cuba, and they want to stay there because they love the island. However, a lot of people are reaching the end of the rope,” Eaton said, ...
Passenger plane goes down in fiery crash in Cuba 01:47. HAVANA -- A Cuban-operated airliner with at least 110 people on board crashed into a cassava field just after takeoff from Havana's ...
Cuba lost over a million people between 2022 and 2023. The population loss might be higher, experts say, mostly driven by migration to the United States.
Over one million people, or 10% of Cuba’s population, have fled the island between 2022 and 2023, according to the country’s national statistics office.
Cuba has arrested 17 people in connection with what its government says is a network recruiting its citizens to fight in Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to a Cuban government official.. The ...