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A wave of Cuban artists — including the singer, daughter of icon Pablo Milanés — is leaving the island, often in protest of its regime. But it brings some controversy.
The official Cuban media rarely reports on cases of missing migrants, which makes it more difficult for families to obtain information about their loved ones. In the Cuban context, the recommendations ...
Together with the 313,506 who left in 2022, this mass movement represents "the largest number of Cuban migrants recorded in two years since the beginning of the post-revolutionary Cuban exodus in ...
Other historic migration waves included the so-called Mariel boatlift in which about 130,000 left Cuba as refugees in the 1980s, and the 35,000-odd who fled in a “raft exodus” in 1994.
The Cuban bishops have issued their 2023 Christmas message, noting that “a very difficult year” is ending for the island due to the dramatic situation in terms of food, health, and services in ...
The pastors of the Cuban faithful pointed out that the celebration of Christmas should impel believers to be better, to seek God and open their hearts to welcome Jesus Christ.
On the morning of July 11, 2021, a group of a few dozen people began marching through the streets of San Antonio de los Baños, a small city south of Havana. As they made their way toward the city ...
Like other businesses across Cuba, Nel Paradiso is grappling with a worker shortage amid unprecedented levels of people fleeing the island nation.In just ...
Hitting the jackpot in Cuba means winning the right to leave. For most Cubans it’s akin to seeing Ed McMahon show up with a Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes check. But the Cuban ...
Many in the island had come to believe that the dictatorship would be eternal, that our only options were to flee or to remain silent. But the silence has been broken.
Alicia Garcia vividly recalls her rescue at sea 20 years ago during a mass exodus from Cuba, a dramatic event that changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and reshaped relations ...
After Cuba opened the door in August 1994, Perera, his daughter and nine others launched a raft toward the United States.