Cuba

Singer Gloria Estefan performs at the Statue of Liberty Museum opening celebration at Battery Park, in New York, May 15, 2019.
Music
Gloria Estefan is set to be the first Hispanic woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Lifestyle
A Cuban filmmaker returns home to see his family during the island nation’s worst economic crisis in decades
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Migration
What’s behind the exodus of Cubans?
Namibia Flores was the only female boxer in Cuba for years. She has been training for almost two decades, with the dream of representing Cuba at the Olympics. 
Sports
Cuba to allow women boxers to compete after decades of restrictions
A mural with the words "Patria y Vida," or "Homeland and Life," a twist on the Cuban national motto, "Homeland or Death."
Elections
In Miami, Cuban American progressives promote civic engagement ahead of midterms
Otero Alcántara during his performance “La Bandera Es De Todos," a piece where he wore the Cuban flag for thirty days.
Arts, Culture & Media
Cuban dissident artists behind hit protest song ‘Patria y Vida’ sentenced to prison
Boxers train at the Rafael Trejo boxing gym in Old Havana, Cuba
Sports
‘The best is yet to come’: Cuban boxers make a professional comeback after 60-year ban is lifted
Commuters drive amidst morning haze and toxic smog as schools and some coal-based power plants close down in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
Heavy smog shuts down schools in India’s capital
Soldiers patrol along the Malecón seawall in Havana, Cuba
Police
Cuban govt supporters resorted to tactics they haven’t used in decades to suppress political dissidents, professor says
Anti-government protesters march in Havana, Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs
Justice
‘Obliged to exile’: Cuban activist Tania Bruguera on the plight of artist Hamlet Lavastida
Special forces police patrol the streets as they drive past a large Cuban flag hanging from the facade of a building, in Havana, Cuba
Protest
For the first time, ‘children of the revolution are fighting the revolution’ says former US rep
Demonstrators shout their solidarity with the Cuban people against the communist government, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Hialeah, Florida. Hialeah has the greatest concentration of Cuban exiles in the US.
Protest
‘Homeland and life’: The chant to Cuba’s anti-government protests
A woman wearing a purple shirt is shown with her hands out stretched and shouting among a large crowd of people.
Protest
Protesters in Cuba are calling for the ‘end of the communist state,’ historian says
Group of people gather outside a church for a prayers
Immigration
Cuban Americans make plea to Biden administration for help on immigration limbo
Medical students walk past a Cuban flag as they check door to door for people with symptoms amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in downtown Havana, Cuba, May 12, 2020.
COVID-19
As Cuba battles coronavirus, activists see an opening to protest police brutality
Cubans hold a sign of unity in red lettering on May Day.
Global Politics
Cuban president fires back at Trump on Venezuela and sanctions
Farmer Pepe Casanas poses with a scorpion near his armpit in Los Palacios, Cuba.
Health & Medicine
Scorpion venom? This Cuban farmer swears by it.
A woman holds a protest sign in Spanish.
Global Politics
US considers sanctions on Cuba for helping Venezuela’s dissent crackdown
A doctor works on a patient laid out on a table
Cuba could pull thousands of its doctors out of Brazil
people on the street walking in havana
Global Politics
What will change with Cuba’s proposed new constitution?
capitol building and theater in havana, cuba
Global Politics
Cuba opens discussion of constitution overhaul to citizens abroad
Man in protective gear points large gun at man holding a toddler, at close range. Toddler is screaming.
Media
An iconic image challenged the politics of Cuban Americans
Three women on stage gesticulating, one with blackface pounding her chest
Arts, Culture & Media
A Miami theater group has a change of heart over blackface
Over 60 Years Later, Hope for Peace on Korean Peninsula
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Cuba's President Raul Castro (C) and First Vice-President Miguel Díaz-Canel (R) are seen on a TV screen inside a restaurant during a session of the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, April 18, 2018. Díaz-Canel became Cuba's president on Wednesday.
Global Politics
Castro steps down as Díaz-Canel assumes Cuban presidency
Cuba's First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his wife Lis Cuesta stand in line before Diaz-Canel casts his vote during an election of candidates for the national and provincial assemblies.
Economics
Cuba’s Communist Party admits errors, slowdown in reforms
Arts, Culture & Media
Artist’s Choice: Susanna Moore
Arts, Culture & Media
Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban
Arts, Culture & Media
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Arts, Culture & Media
Raperos Delight
Arts, Culture & Media
Tania Leon
Arts, Culture & Media
Cuban Organ
Arts, Culture & Media
Key West Reconnects With Its Cuban Roots
Arts, Culture & Media
What Will Openness Mean for Cuban Artists?
Arts, Culture & Media
Staging “Rent” in Cuba
Arts, Culture & Media
“Rent” in Cuba, Cassandra Wilson, & Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon
US President Donald Trump signs a document after announcing his Cuba policy
Global Politics
President Trump reveals new restrictions on travel to Cuba
Left: Kim Jong-Un as the class bully, El Universal Opinion, Mexico,  September 2, 2017.   Right: Catalonia removes a key piece of Spain, El Universal Opinion, Mexico, October 14, 2017.
Arts
The wordless, surreal and very Cuban satire of Angel Boligán
An illustration of a controversial new postage stamp in Ireland, with Irish artist, Jim Fitzpatrick, who created the famous two-tone image of Che Guevara used on the stamp
Culture
Ireland celebrates Che Guevara’s Irish roots with a stamp, despite opposition
A view of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, September 29, 2017.
Technology
A secret sonic weapon in Havana? Scientists say ‘no way.’
Central America Maras
Global Politics
Don’t let Trump’s Cuba policy overshadow Central America’s glaring needs
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Culture
Havana’s small business boom exposes a stark racial divide
Fighting for LGBTQ Equality, The Vet-to-Cop Pipeline, Fresh Iranian Food
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Development
How life has changed for these Cuban women over 20 years
Omar Hernandez in downtown Moscow. He says problems that came from speaking his mind too freely in Cuba led him to leave in the early 90s. Now he's lives in Russia.
Culture
Is Russia’s romance with Cuba coming to an end?
Obama in Cuba, Political Glamour, Mega Memories
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Music
How ‘Guantanamera’ went from Cuba’s unofficial anthem to a Swedish recycling jingle
Immigration Envy Grows as Cubans Get Easy Access
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971 to Cuban parents.
Global Politics
An El Salvador-born Rubio supporter says his candidate can fix broken immigration system
Havana's Jose Marti International Airport
Global Politics
How the thaw in US-Cuba relations reunited a journalist’s family
The End of Average, Reimagining Fashion, Westminster Rejects
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Cuba's President Raul Castro oversees a handshake between Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos (left) and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono (right), better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko.
Conflict
Bitter foes strike a deal for peace in Colombia
Pope Francis and Cuba's President Raul Castro confer in Havana on Sunday.
Arts
Cuban artists ask why their government won’t let them create
Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco's memoir is The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood.
Culture
A Cuban American poet sees a brighter future for dissident artists on the island
Chief of Mission at the US Interests Section in Havana Jeffrey DeLaurentis (L) shakes hands with Cuba's interim Foreign Minister Marcelino Medina in Havana July 1, 2015.
Global Politics
There’s no Cuban ambassador just yet, but there is ‘our man in Havana’
A leaves the city of Key West on a trip to Cuba in October 1954.
Global Politics
‘You’re going to see traffic lights in the Florida Straits with so many people going back and forth’
Customers don’t mind the long lines, according to writer and filmmaker Jason Motlagh. The line is part of the experience.
Business
For Cubans, this ice cream store is about much more than just the cold, creamy scoops
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Sports
Guess who’s coming to Cuba? A New York soccer team
Children playing baseball in Cuba
Culture
There’s hope in Cuba that the ‘corrupt’ US baseball pipeline could vanish
The Bella ll Health and Beauty Institute, a beauty salon in Havana
Economics
Cuban cooperatives present a new economic model