Mauricio Vicent

Reducing the cost of maintaining valid travel documents for citizens residing abroad had been a longstanding demand of Cuban-Americans

The mass meeting at the Plaza de la Revolución will be replaced by small marches in the municipalities due to the critical situation of fuel shortages

The island’s energy minister reported that the improvement in fuel supply will not mean a return to levels seen in 2017, 2018 or even a few months ago

After months of blackouts triggered by the sorry state of the state-owned electric utility, fuel shortages have ground traffic to a halt on the beleaguered island

José Miguel Villa Romero, the son of a humble migrant from Spain, was a law enforcement officer, a Pepsi Cola representative, a prisoner and a chauffeur whose extraordinary life was sung by the famous Trío Matamoros

Island officials admit to some positive steps, but believe that overall the Democratic president’s policies follow in the footsteps of his Republican predecessor

The famous Caribbean adage, ‘without sugar, there is no country,’ is quickly becoming the reality on an island that faces shortages, emigration, and isolation

The professor, exiled in the US since 1961, identifies for EL PAÍS a series of factors, among them the embargo, which influence the poor results of the Cuban economy

The 38th Jazz Plaza Festival filled the Cuban capital with long nights of rum and jam sessions in the company of extraordinary musicians

The singer-songwriter Fernando Bécquer was sentenced to ‘limitation of freedom’ following a sexual abuse trial involving several women, only to be later jailed after mocking the victims in his lyrics

A makeshift boat with a US flag on its bow was caught drifting off the Malecón, in a powerful symbol of the problems afflicting the island nation for over a year

The singer-songwriter, creator of songs like ‘Yolanda,’ died in Spain where he had lived for years to receive medical treatment for cancer

In just one year, 224,000 citizens –mostly young people – have left the island nation for the United States

Family reunification will be prioritized, while the embassy will ‘expand consular services’ and increase its staff ‘as conditions permit’

Forecasters are warning about ‘catastrophic’ effects and a ‘life-threatening storm surge’ along the southwest coast of the US state

The tropical cyclone poses a danger to over 100,000 island residents and is expected to also affect the Mexican Caribbean and Florida in the coming days

Cubans voted in favor of a referendum to ratify a Family Code that will also give gay couples the right to adopt

Economic decline has caused 180,000 people to flee the island in the last year

Over 2,000 islanders who tried to reach Florida by sea have been deported by US authorities since early 2022

The US government is reversing some of Donald Trump’s harshest measures towards the island

Deteriorating living conditions on the island are driving crowds to line up for visas outside consulates. Exodus numbers are overtaking the crisis years of 1980 and 1994

The former president and last Cold War survivor will turn 91 in June and he remains an active presence even though he no longer holds political office

National Security Archive releases declassified documents to mark the anniversary of a decision that ushered in the longest period of sanctions in modern history

Young people who were detained at the recent demonstrations have been denouncing the abuse that they were subjected to, both on the streets and in precincts. They also fear stiff prison sentences

Thousands of people all over the country came out to demonstrate on Sunday, amid a situation of shortages and hardships that has been exacerbated by the pandemic. More than a hundred arrests were made