Essential services are struggling as shortages spread across the island. Years of economic decline and political isolation ...

Cuba might open up to private markets if the U.S. forces a regime change, but the transition will be turbulent.

For Jose Guerra Ferrer, a Havana-based industrial engineer, “the economic situation in Cuba is bad”. “I hope it can be addressed by the new parliament,” he says, with reference to national assembly ...

Then, in March this year, Donald Trump’s fuel blockade forced them to close. An extra set of sanctions made things worse. On ...

Cuba’s defence chief from 1959 to 2008 and its president from 2006 to 2018, he still wields great influence behind the scenes ...

The United States is prepared to provide US$100 million in humanitarian assistance to Cuba, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

Ever since U.S. commandos removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power in January, Washington has piled unprecedented pressure on Cuba, Caracas’s beleaguered former ally. The island’s ...

The U.S. military operation to apprehend and remove Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro from power could put pressure on Cuba's economy as the communist country reels from the loss of a key economic and ...

Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations said in an interview that Havana wanted to talk but the Trump administration was ...

For more than 60 years, the U.S. has tried to pressure Cuba's leadership into breaking. The regime has endured.