Then, in early April, a local business owner opened what is believed to be Cuba’s first solar-powered charging station — and ...

President Donald Trump issued a clear warning on Saturday morning, hinting at a potential U.S. takeover of Cuba in a five-word message. The president is hosting Latin American leaders at the "Shield ...

Cuba is working to restore its electricity supply after another islandwide blackout this weekend. Since early January, the Trump administration has shut off the flow of oil to Cuba in an attempt to ...

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 ...

At the start of this year, Donald Trump ordered the capture and removal of Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro - he's now facing a trial in New York. Trump then endorsed the newly compliant Delcy ...

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 ...

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Cuban writer Leonardo Padura poses for a portrait in the street in Havana, Cuba, April 10. Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, ...

Ordinary Cubans are trapped in a vicious circle of government mismanagement exacerbated by the US embargo. Lights out: People gather against a backdrop of unlit buildings in Havana, as Cuba’s national ...