It’s not just the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine, which asserts the western hemisphere as a zone of US influence, that’s behind ...

Trump directly threatened action against Colombia and Mexico, if they failed to reduce the flow of illicit drugs into the US, ...

People walk on dark streets in the center of the Cuban capital during an island-wide power outage in October 2024. Photo: Nick Kaiser/dpa/Sipa USA In a gambit to try to precipitate regime change in ...

During a power outage, two men sit in a bicycle cab in Havana in October 2024. Amid President Trump’s threats to start a global trade war, invade Greenland, seize control of the Panama Canal and annex ...

Cuban economist Pedro Monreal has expressed concern over the government's deliberate misinformation regarding the severity of ...

Cuba’s outdated power plants and weak grid now supply just 50–70% of electricity demand, causing almost daily blackouts and repeated nationwide outages. Reliance on poor-quality crude and unstable oil ...

Cuba's energy crisis, characterized by frequent blackouts and fuel shortages, is causing significant economic hardship and social unrest. The crisis is attributed to aging infrastructure, lack of ...

Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US ...

This spring, thousands of Cubans gathered in Havana’s Revolutionary Square to mark the nation’s Labor Day celebrations. Only this year, there was nothing to celebrate. Cuba is experiencing a national ...