MICHAEL J. BUSTAMANTE is Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami and the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile.

HAVANA, May 11 (Reuters) - Cuba's state cigar monopoly, Habanos S.A., said on Wednesday it logged record sales of its famous hand-rolled smokes in 2021, rebounding strongly after two years of pandemic ...

The Cuban Peso (CUP) is Cuba's official currency, used for local transactions and historical purposes. Explore its history and place in Cuba's monetary system.

Anti-government demonstrators protest high prices for food and food shortages at the Maximo Gomez monument in Havana on July 11, 2021. AP On July 11, we commemorated the first anniversary of a heroic ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Friday stating that protesters detained for participating in the July 2021 demonstrations in Cuba have experienced significant rights abuses in prison.

What to know about the protests in Cuba, Florida, New Jersey and more. Thousands of Cubans have been protesting food, vaccine and medicine shortages, in the one of the country's largest demonstrations ...

Cuba’s authoritarian regime has failed to avert an economic crisis, repair decaying state institutions, and prevent the country’s largest outflow of migrants since the 1960s. Cuba’s communist regime ...

Residents of a small town in Sancti Spiritus, in central Cuba, were shocked last year when the body of a schoolteacher was retrieved from a well. He had been tied down with stones and heavy pieces of ...

Hundreds of demonstrators detained for taking part in island-wide July 2021 protests in Cuba have been “subject to serious abuses" in prison, Human Rights Watch reported Friday. The global advocacy ...

Cuba said that 32 officers assigned to protect Venezuela’s deposed strongman were killed by U.S. forces, signaling trouble for Havana’s own rulers.

Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in prison, including beatings, solitary confinement, and lack of medical care.