"Absolutely no fuel" and "absolutely no diesel." ...

In Cuba, "reality doesn't knock, it opens the door and barges into your house", said author Leonardo Padura in an interview ...

'There is nothing else.' Cubans describe surviving blackouts, hunger and growing despair as Cuba sinks deeper into economic ...

When the living dead invade Havana, the wiry protagonist of Cuban zombie spoof Juan of the Dead declares: "I'm a survivor. I survived Mariel, I survived Angola, I survived the special period and this ...

Cuba is facing a shortage of religious vocations to the point that the country is losing almost one women’s religious congregation each year. Even so, the presence of consecrated men and women remains ...

President Donald Trump issued a clear warning on Saturday morning, hinting at a potential U.S. takeover of Cuba in a five-word message. The president is hosting Latin American leaders at the "Shield ...

HAVANA — Yuneisy Riviaux grew up in a working-class Havana neighborhood and has endured a life of hardship, but she never imagined a day would come when she and her little girls would go without lunch ...

Photography is a great medium for social documentation. Think of nineteenth-century French photographer Eugène Atget, who produced thousands of photographs of Paris with direct, novel, and poetic ...

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura poses for a portrait in the street in Havana, Cuba, April 10. Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, ...

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SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — Yudelaimys Barrero Muñoz used to spend up to three hours on the side of a highway under the blazing sun waving money at drivers as she attempted to hitch a ride from ...