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The Dilemma Many Cubans Face: Buy Food or Medicines?

“The 1,000 pesos I had saved to buy a little piece of meat are going to go on medicines,” says a retired woman in San Jose de las Lajas, Havana.

The dynastic co-presidency, purges within power, Chinese influence, transnational repression, and the impact of the Trump era defined 2025.

“The work of collecting seeds saved me from depression,” caused by her daughter’s suicide at the age of 29, said Maria do Desterro Soares.

Loss of household goods caused by hurricanes drives up demand for mattress makers in the east of the country.

In the Cuban State’s conception, “food sovereignty” does not translate into farmers freedom to decide what to produce and how to market it,

“We are not Asians; that is not a Cuban habit,” a government official argues that Cubans should consider other foods.

Let’s understand the scope of Carretero’s relationships with the Miraflores Palace in Venezuela and how they extend to Cuba.

The economic damage is part of the problem. The damage to the rule of law, public trust, and credibility of institutions is just as serious.

“When I go out on the street I ask God, make me invisible, make me invisible, so I can come back to my children,” says a Venezuelan migrant.

They are doing this with the goal of eliminating the ever-increasing power outages that the country has been experiencing since 2019.