Caught in the middle, ordinary Cubans oscillate between fear of armed conflict and a desperate hunger for change.

I was shocked by the economic deterioration since my visit a year ago. There are mountains of garbage throughout Havana, with people rummaging among them for food. Cuba’s request in February for ...

Yunia Figueredo, an independent journalist in Havana, sent me a voice message recently from her daughter's phone because her own had no data connection. Earlier that morning, she had tried to boil ...

Cuba’s worsening economic collapse, intensified by sanctions, fuel shortages, and prolonged blackouts, is hitting the elderly hardest. Many face hunger, homelessness, and violence, surviving on meager ...

Since January the long blackouts, street violence and hunger have become increasingly worse in Cuba. For more than four months now, a partial chokehold imposed by the Trump administration on ...

A Jewish contractor who has launched a hunger strike while serving a long prison term in Cuba is receiving “dignified and decent treatment” in a hospital ward, where he is in normal and stable health, ...

HAVANA (AP) – Cuban state television aired images Tuesday night raising questions about the recent hunger strike by a prominent dissident. The 15-minute segment broadcast on the nightly news included ...

In Cuba today, food is rotting in the fields while families go hungry. On a recent trip to the eastern part of the island, I spoke with farmers who are watching their livelihoods slip away — not ...