MICHAEL J. BUSTAMANTE is Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami and the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile.

Cuba’s deepening economic collapse could soon tip into outright breakdown as U.S. pressure on Venezuela threatens to choke ...

HAVANA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Cuba's Supreme Popular Tribunal on Monday sentenced former economy minister Alejandro Gil to life in prison following a closed-door trial that found him guilty of espionage ...

(CNN) — The smell of garbage is overwhelming and intense under the Caribbean sun. The accumulated waste is such that an entire street in Havana, far from its tourist district, was blocked to traffic.

During a power outage, two men sit in a bicycle cab in Havana in October 2024. Amid President Trump’s threats to start a global trade war, invade Greenland, seize control of the Panama Canal and annex ...

In this file photo, large cranes can be seen at Port Mariel inside the Mariel Special Economic Development Zone on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. In a significant step in the “tough Cuba policy” promised by ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joseph J. Gonzalez, Appalachian State University (THE CONVERSATION) The lights went ...

After Americans flocked to Havana following President Barack Obama's historic restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2015, the island's most powerful entity, the military, made a big bet: ...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's top court on Monday said a former economy minister was sentenced to life in prison for espionage, in the highest-profile case against an ex-official in recent years on the island.