The Communist Caribbean island is in crisis as airlines cancel flights, hotels close and authorities furlough workers.

US pressure pushes island nation’s 11 million people to the brink as Cuba imposes emergency measures amid fuel crisis.

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 ...

Some Cubans say everyday life on the Caribbean island has reached a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the ...

Cuba’s government appears to be on the brink of economic collapse amid a worsening energy crisis.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...