In Cuba, "reality doesn't knock, it opens the door and barges into your house", said author Leonardo Padura in an interview ...
Cuban ballerina Laura Kamila Rojas is dancing her way through the transport woes, lengthy power cuts and economic hardship ...
'There is nothing else.' Cubans describe surviving blackouts, hunger and growing despair as Cuba sinks deeper into economic ...
HAVANA(AP) — Yuneisy Riviaux grew up in a working-class Havana neighborhood and has endured a life of hardship, but she never imagined a day would come when she and her little girls would go without ...
Photography is a great medium for social documentation. Think of nineteenth-century French photographer Eugène Atget, who produced thousands of photographs of Paris with direct, novel, and poetic ...
Cuba is facing a shortage of religious vocations to the point that the country is losing almost one women’s religious congregation each year. Even so, the presence of consecrated men and women remains ...
When the living dead invade Havana, the wiry protagonist of Cuban zombie spoof Juan of the Dead declares: "I'm a survivor. I survived Mariel, I survived Angola, I survived the special period and this ...