Baseball
Cuban baseball continued in freefall in 2024
Enrique del PozoLa Habana'The factors that are causing the failure are still there as long as there is no Professional League or change in the social system'.
Economics
Official: in Cuba the private sector's mission should not be to make money, but to 'support the Revolution'
DDCMadridAlthough he acknowledges that 'the offensive' against the sector has not yielded the expected results, Díaz-Canel stressed what has been achieved at the cost of Cubans' further impoverishment.
Demographics
Cuba will lose almost half of its population before the end of the century, according to a study
Michel SuárezMadridThe prognosis could be even worse, if we take into account the emigration of almost 700,000 people to the US between 2021 and 2024.
Public Insecurity
Parolees in Santiago de Cuba Receive Threats
Maritza BetanzosSantiago de CubaThis is the Government's 'solution' to placate the population, frightened by the crime wave.
Opinion
Editorial: DIARIO DE CUBA Turns 15
DDCMadridOver the course of this decade and a half, changes have taken place in Cuba, but not those necessary for the country’s democratization.
Opinion
Cuba’s unstoppable spiral of misery
Rafaela CruzLa Habana 1Castroism is hanging on thanks to a suicidal embrace of stopgap measures with no future, producing a steady decline in the country's productive capacity.
Political prisoners
Miguel Díaz Bauzá, after 30 years in prison: 'My life has been a bit hard, but I’ve been able to handle it with patience'
DDCCaibariénHe is the oldest political prisoner in Cuba, and accepts the eight years he has left. His only desire, he tolds DIARIO DE CUBA, is to be with his family.
Opinion
They stole Christmas, they stole Cuba
Rafaela CruzLa HabanaThe Castroist fantasy of prosperous socialism is dispelled by old cars without fuel, depressing schools with even more depressing teachers, hospitals with more cockroaches than doctors, and thermoelectric plants that only turn back on to break down again.
Repression
Carlos Michael Morales: 'What really hurts at Cuban prisons is the hunger'
Leonardo Fernández OtañoMadridAccess to medicine is 'a horror movie' says the former political prisoner. If a sick inmate doesn't have a family member to take care of him, 'he's just not going to get cured.
Venezuela
La Fiscalía de Venezuela anuncia nuevas excarcelaciones de presos políticos sin haber informado de las anteriores
Salvador BrachoCaracasLa cifra superior a los 2.000 presos políticos, que Maduro ha mostrado como símbolo de su fuerza, es el número más elevado en las últimas seis décadas en Venezuela.
Power Outages
Living between "light-ups": the consequences of the electricity system disaster for Cubans
Laura Sarmiento PérezSantiago de Cuba'There's no chicken in Santiago de Cuba,' complains a mother of three. 'The MSMEs were the ones that had it, despite the price cap, but they rotted, due to the blackouts'
Opinion
In Cuba: what will we eat in three months?
Roberto Álvarez QuiñonesMiamiThe speed at which agricultural production is dropping is unprecedented. What are the causes of this disaster, and what could happen if it continues?
Child Labor
'For me, the street is my classroom': child labor in Cuba
Orlando García HernándezLa Habana'At home we're going hungry, and I can't get food at school,' says a boy who sells bread in Havana.
Cuba-US Relations
From the 'Havana Wall' will fall, to there will be no 'substantial changes': opinions on how Trump's victory will affect Cuba
DDCMadridAnalysts Emilio Morales, Juan Antonio Blanco, Roberto Veiga and Omar López Montenegro assess, in DIARIO DE CUBA, what the American tycoon's return to the White House may mean for the island.
Opinion
Misery as an instrument of domination in Cuba
Rafaela CruzLa HabanaNo one should be deceived into believing that the current state of national decomposition is just a by-product, something that 'happened' when, attempting to implement socialism, Castroism ended up creating this hell.
Opinion
China shows that, in Cuba, the 'blockade' is internal
Rafaela CruzLa HabanaWhile Chinese trade with Latin America has been constantly on the rise, with the island it has been a resounding failure.
Emigration
'True solidarity' among Cubans: the Cobijo (Shelter) project in Spain marks two years
Yusimí Rodríguez López / Náyare Menoyo FloriánMadridCubans who have received help from the project, headed up in Madrid by Father Bladimir Navarro, spoke to DIARIO DE CUBA.
Electricity
The Cuban regime tries to quell discontent over the blackouts: fuel has arrived, but economic activities are at a standstill
DDCMadridMarrero tries to put band-aids on a wound that will not close, repeats already familiar information, and announces a technical maintenance halt at two large thermoelectric plants.
Laws
In Cuba, protecting the reputation of Fidel Castro's son is more important than justice being served
Yusimí Rodríguez LópezMadrid'In this trial, all the parties, including the defense counsel of the six parties tried and convicted in Cuba, favored the impunity of Fidel Castro's son and MININT officials,' says a DIARIO DE CUBA lawyer.
Corruption
Exclusive: A son of Fidel Castro has ties to alleged drug traffickers, and the Cuban Justice system knows it
DDCMadridIn an exclusive, DIARIO DE CUBA reveals images of a trial in which Alejandro Castro Soto del Valle's name came up on several occasions.