Then, in early April, a local business owner opened what is believed to be Cuba’s first solar-powered charging station — and ...

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 ...

Cuban mothers are turning to social media to document daily struggles across the island, offering a rare glimpse into life ...

Cuba is working to restore its electricity supply after another islandwide blackout this weekend. Since early January, the Trump administration has shut off the flow of oil to Cuba in an attempt to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Ordinary Cubans are trapped in a vicious circle of government mismanagement exacerbated by the US embargo. Lights out: People gather against a backdrop of unlit buildings in Havana, as Cuba’s national ...

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 ...

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