MANGUITO, CUBA – The majority of Marcos Perez’s friends fled the country last year. Now, he and his family are pooling their money to do the same. “Only a few of my friends are left, the ones who lack ...

Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years. Yet, in 1960, the year after its revolution, Cuba had a LE ...

She led a life overshadowed by violence — convicted of killing a state trooper, breaking out of prison and fleeing to Cuba 42 ...

To be sure, Cuba is not Venezuela. Its security forces remain disciplined. Tourism and remittances still bring in dollars ...

Since Fidel Castro ceded authority to his brother Raul in 2006, life in Cuba has slowly been changing. Young Cubans are more comfortable talking about their government and cellphones have begun to ...

Love Fidel Castro or hate him, there’s no denying his momentous achievement Monday of turning 75 while still in power. After all, the most powerful nation on earth has spent four decades trying ...

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, ...

A mission team from Grapevine Baptist Church has returned from its second mission trip this year to Cuba and is rejoicing for ...