Sports

Cuban athletes end up competing under other flags, spurred not by money, but the authorities' stupidity

Yusimí Rodríguez LópezMadrid

Several cases demonstrate that, in addition to money, Cuba's sports authorities lack common sense.

Shortages

Cuba: the old relationship between rationing and totalitarianism

Dimas CastellanosLa Habana

At the root of rationing in Cuba is the system's productive incapacity and its control over its people.

Opinion

The Cuban people's silent resistance

Orlando Freire SantanaLa Habana

'It's as if people are striving to flout that indicated by government and partisan directives.'

Civil Society

Five freedoms against totalitarianism in Cuba: a grassroots initiative

Ángeles RosasMadrid

The new movement aims to unite Cubans of all kinds to, first of all, put an end to 'five forms of internal state subjugation'.

Education

Not sending children to school: a silent form of public protest

Yoan Miguel González PiedraLa Habana

'It's terrible what we go through for children to learn something and meet what school demands,' says a Cuban mother.

Nutrition

Eating healthy, a tall order for pregnant women in Cuba

Ángeles RosasMadrid

Maternal malnutrition is one of the realities influencing Cuban women when they decide whether or not to have children.

Opinion

'Electricity and Food' is also 'Homeland and Life'

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

Castroism owes its longevity to preventing the people who opposite it, and might overthrow it, from organizing and advancing a coherent set of ideas.

Cuban Cinema

The ICAIC does not exist

Diego SantanaMadrid

'The ICAIC is 65 years old, and gives its filmmakers no space, does not answer their emails or letters, and then talks about a celebration of Cuban cinema,' says Rosa María Rodriguez Pupo.

Protests

'There's nothing more political than hunger.' Intellectuals and artists react to the protests in Cuba.

DDCMadrid

Alina Bárbara López Hernández, Ulises Toirac, Yotuel, Randy Malcom, Osmani García, Cuqui la Mora, La Diosa, Leoni Torres, Daymé Arocena and others weigh in on the situation in Cuba, all of them sending the same message: 'No to violence'.

Demography

Accelerating ageing and reducing the population in Cuba: the Government's new 'achievements'

DDCLa Habana

The population is growing at a normal rate in only 33 municipalities, the authorities admit.

Laws

Five urgent reform measures on Cuba's legislative agenda raise hopes —but also trigger doubts

Lucía Alfonso MirabalLa Habana

Although the preliminary drafts of the future laws have not yet been published, it is not too early to ask questions about their contents and how they should benefit Cubans.

Opinion

The Gil Case: a way to threaten Díaz-Canel, or an internal rebellion?

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

Is an operation underway in Cuba to displace an entire sector of Castroism, deemed too ideological, and promote a more business-friendly system headed by the military?

Politics

The Power of Everyday Acts

Omar López MontenegroMiami

By publicly proclaiming her defiance of the regime, Alina Bárbara López is challenging the foundations of Cuba's system of domination. We can't all be Mahatma Gandhi, but anyone can be Rosa Parks.

Opinion

Raúl Castro: the general in his defeat

Rafaela CruzLa Habana 2

Erratic policies, produced by fear and devoid of objectives, have been the hallmarks of this Raulian era, the perfect culmination of a regime that is close to disappearing and that no one will miss.

Opinion

Cuban rum and tobacco: from the best in the world to needing protection

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

If after 500 years of tradition Cuba's rum and tobacco now need the government to protect them, something has been truly botched.

Emigration

Cuban retirees, fleeced by the State on the island and after emigrating

Yusimí Rodríguez LópezMadrid

The coordinator of a citizen platform that demands the right to a dignified retirement talked to DIARIO DE CUBA.

Oppression

Prison in Cuba: a tough place to be a mother

Raúl Medina OramaLima

Inmates' pregnancies are fraught with problems impacting not only those who opt to give birth in prisons, but also those who are separated from their children by their incarceration.

Opinion

Judging Castroism by its actions, not its intentions

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

'Although there has been a lot of hot air about how important and urgent ending inflation is, the reality is that they haven't taken a single measure really aimed at lowering prices.'

Health

Cuba's health crisis spawns a surge in the black market for medicines

Alberto MartínezLa Habana

Antibiotics selling for 600 to 1,500 pesos, blister packs of Vitamin B for 450, Bactrim for 400, benzathine penicillin for 1,000 pesos per vial...

Crisis

Is there a humanitarian crisis in Cuba?

Yusimí Rodríguez LópezMadrid

In DIARIO DE CUBA, three experts discuss the aptness of the term to describe the situation on the island.