A blackout has hit the western half of Cuba. Millions of people in Havana and beyond were without power on Wednesday in the latest outage to affect an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and ...

For decades, Washington has pressured Havana to open its economy to private investment. Those calls grew more urgent in recent weeks as the US oil blockade pushed Cuba’s economy into a tailspin. Now, ...

The Trump administration sees Cuban leader Miguel Díaz Canel as “as an obstacle” to the changes the United States would like to see happening on the island.

Mike Hammer, a career U.S. ambassador and currently the highest diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, said he believes a ...

On March 2, 2026, Miguel Diaz-Canel said that urgent transformations in the country’s economic and social model had to be ...

“Every single one, except, I would say, Obama, had as a policy, one way or another, to bring an end to the Cuban government,” ...

Cuba faces deepening divisions as fuel shortages, power cuts and food scarcity worsen amid America's oil embargo and the state's economic retreat.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the private sector needed more autonomy, as the island confronts a U.S. oil blockade that has deepened a humanitarian crisis.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his government should "immediately" focus on implementing urgent transformations to ...

For some time now, much of Cuba has found itself increasingly in the dark. In cities and towns across the island, power outages can last for hours or even days. When the lights come back on, families ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio walks a diplomatic tightrope in the Caribbean, pressing for change in Cuba while regional leaders warn of a deepening humanitarian and migration crisis.

Cuba’s communist government is facing a breaking point in its battle for survival under pressure from President Trump, whose ...