Surveys

Neither legitimate nor fair: most Cubans surveyed disapprove of the electoral system

Ángeles RosasMadrid

36.5% of Cubans surveyed are considering abstaining in the next 'elections,' according to a Cubadata poll.

Violence Against Women

Gender Violence in Cuba: From Mariela Castro's Denial to Recognition by the Official Press

Yusimí Rodríguez LópezMadrid

In 2015, the director of the National Sex Education Center stated that there were no femicides in Cuba.

Elections

'Elections' in Cuba: False Representation and Tons of Propaganda

Lucía Alfonso MirabalLa Habana

The fact that the list of candidates includes people from all the provinces and municipalities does not mean that all the territories are actually represented in the Cuban Parliament.

Gender-based violence

'The Cuban state is unwilling to address gender-based violence'

Yusimí Rodríguez LópezMadrid

Two feminist activists and a former Cuban judge spoke to DIARIO DE CUBA about the need for a comprehensive law against gender violence on the island.

Opinion

Inflation in Cuba: more about hunger than economics

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

How can one explain the huge discrepancy between the inflation affecting the world and the one that Cuba is suffering?

Opinion

Cuba: from the worst socialism to the worst capitalism

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

Fidel Castro's successors are dispensing with the Cuban Revolution and its 'achievements' while assembling a Frankenstein system comprised of rotten pieces of oligarchical capitalism and the most vapid socialism.

Education

Cuban schools: leaking urine

Roberto Álvarez QuiñonesMiami

Today, with twice the population in 1958, the country has 160 fewer rural schools than before the Castros seized power.

Russia-Ukraine War

One year of war in Ukraine: a timeline of the Cuban regime's support for its Russian ally

DDCMadrid 1

Havana has tried to ease the UN’s pressure on Moscow and has echoed Putin's disinformation in Latin America.

Foreign Investment

Cuba: for sale to the highest bidder

Orlando Freire SantanaLa Habana

The rhetoric of the island's rulers regarding foreign investment has softened.

Baseball

The best thing a baseball player can do to help the sport in Cuba is emigrate

Yusimí Rodríguez LópezMadrid

In Cuba, athletes cannot prosper or progress in their athletic disciplines.

Policy

'Elections' During Cuba’s Severest Crisis

Dimas CastellanosLa Habana

In the 2022 municipal 'elections', the protest vote rose to 38.90% of the electorate, and, in Havana, to approximately 50%.

Opinion

Cuban State Budgets: Much Is Taken and Little Is Given

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

Castroism claims to devote 72% of the budget to social spending, but money for education, health and social security is scant. How can this be explained?

Public Health

Is Cuba planning on a Russian-style privatization of its health system?

Juan Antonio BlancoMiami

A sector of the Cuban population, especially those over 50, has for years accepted the lack of freedom entailed by Communism in exchange for 'guaranteed health and education.' But what about now?

Gender Violence

Cuban civil society organizations demand that the regime declare a state of emergency due to gender violence

DDCLa Habana

'They're killing us because we lack effective prevention protocols and mechanisms in Cuba,' complain several organizations.

Society

'The law is prostituted in Cuba,' complain students at the University of Havana

DDCLa Habana

They say that the Law School has become a 'den of police, opportunists and mediocrity'.

Politics

Cuba, prostituted, between London and Moscow

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

Castroism is now accelerating the transition from a supposedly socialist dictatorship to a supposedly capitalist one, with Russian counsel and control.

Society

'The Right To Be Born' fights to expedite adoption in Cuba and prevent the abandonment of children

Ángeles RosasMadrid

DIARIO DE CUBA spoke with those heading up a 'campaign that seeks to help, guide and never question mothers who find themselves in different situations'

Justice

The details of the trial against the Government of Cuba in London for defaulting on its debt

José Luis ReyesMadrid

Havana's witnesses include several former officials of the National Bank of Cuba who the regime indicted and sentenced.

Emigration

Those who left... are no longer building Cuba

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

More than a quarter of a million Cubans abandoned the island last year, and the vast majority were young people, many of them highly educated.

Policy

The FEU: from Autonomy to Subordination

Dimas CastellanosLa Habana 2

How did an organization that was supposed to guarantee the independence of studies in Cuba end up becoming a body at the service of Castroist repression?