The Cuban Government sends rice and milk to quell the protests, but discontent continues

“Those supposed trucks that arrived do not mean that they are going to start selling rice, sugar or milk to the population. They are only now distributing the rice and sugar of the month that has not arrived, the milk of the children that they have not given,” says a Cuban resident in Santiago de … Read more

Schedule Spanish Consulate Appointments in Cuba: 2024 Availability for Nationality, Passports, and Civil Registry Procedures

2023-12-01 21:48:33 The Consulate General of Spain in Havana continues to offer updates on appointments for some of the main procedures. This November 30, for example, the consular headquarters announced the availability of new places for first passport appointments. And this December 1st, it notified about the opening of appointments in 2024 for other Civil … Read more

Exploring Havana’s Booming Private Business Scene: How SMEs are Reshaping Cuba’s Economy

2023-06-08 18:10:01 An explosion of small shops stretches across Havana, the most visible expression of the space gained by private companies in Cuba. The so-called SMEs, authorized only in 2021, displace state businesses, which are increasingly empty. “Here there is!”, is the name of a small store recently opened in the west of the Cuban … Read more

National Guard deployed after hundreds of Cuban migrants arrive in Florida

​Florida’s governor has mobilized the state’s National Guard to assist local authorities in responding to a large influx of Cuban migrants who have landed in the Florida Keys. Governor Ron DeSantis activated the Florida National Guard on Friday (6th) to respond to the influx of hundreds of mostly Cuban migrants arriving by boat in southern … Read more

Hurricane Ian completely collapsed 38 houses in Havana and damaged more than a thousand

Havana The recent passage of Hurricane Ian through western Cuba caused the total collapse of 38 homes in Havana, as well as partial damage and damage to the roofs of another 1,131 houses, the government of the capital reported Tuesday. In the first total count of Ian’s ravages in Havana, the governor of the territory, … Read more

‘I am Fidel’: cadets armed with sticks parade through the streets of Havana where Cubans demanded ‘light’ and ‘freedom’

Young cadets from the Military Technical Institute (ITM), in Havana, paraded armed with sticks on Friday night through the municipality of Playa, where some of the protests in which Cubans went from demanding the restoration of electricity, after several days of blackout, to demanding freedom. In two videos sent to DIARIO DE CUBA by Carlos … Read more