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    This is what Penelope Cruz has to say about Cubans

    01 Sep 2019

    Spanish star Penelope Cruz said on Sunday that Cubans were not free to talk frankly when she was making a new film about the communist island's biggest modern heroes.

    US visa issues push 100,000 Cubans to the brink

    24 Mar 2021

    When Maria Sulay Lopez arrived in the United States in 2014, she assumed her son in Cuba would quickly get a visa to join her. But almost seven years later, the breast cancer patient still doesn’t know when they will be together.

    For exiles, Castro’s exit is just ‘more of the same’

    20 Apr 2021

    Enrique Yglesias left Cuba two years ago for a better life. From Uruguay, he trekked to Guyana, across the Amazonian jungle and Central America to Mexico and the US border, where he asked for asylum. He just arrived in Cutler Bay in South Miami-Dade after his release from detention, so he

    Cuban street performer, Ricardo Elias Hardy, wows passersby by turning into a living statue

    05 Apr 2021

    A Cuban street performer, Ricardo Elias Hardy, performed an impeccable act by becoming a living statue.

    Maduro says Venezuela will produce Cuban Covid-19 vaccine

    12 Apr 2021

    Venezuela’s vaccine rollout has been slow, with the country receiving just 250,000 Russian Sputnik V vaccine doses and half a million from China’s Sinopharm to date.

    The skateboarders of Cuba are carving their way to official recognition of the sport

    23 Jul 2019

    With skateboarding making its Olympic debut in Japan next year, Cuban skateboarders are hoping their sport will finally be accepted at home.

    US visits to Cuba almost double despite Trump sanctions

    08 May 2019

    Cuba's relationship with Donald Trump's administration may be worsening, but that didn't stop the island nation from welcoming more than a quarter million US visitors in the first four months of 2019.

    Art frenzy takes over Havana as biennial kicks off

    15 Apr 2019

    Cones of white paper sprout from the seasalt-eroded pillars of one colonial building along Havana's seafront, elaborately painted curtains cascade from another while out front children play with an installation of multicolored hoses.

    Dianelys Alfonso has become the pioneer of the #MeToo movement

    15 Jul 2019

    Dianelys Alfonso has a brassy presence - brightly colored tattoos, spandex bodysuits, Technicolor hair - and a clarion voice that won her the label "Goddess of Cuba" for her turns on songs ranging from ballads to reggaeton.

    Young orchestra musicians bridge US-Cuba divide

    25 May 2019

    On Havana's National Theatre stage, where the Cuban American Youth Orchestra has been rehearsing all week, it's difficult to distinguish the different nationalities of the violinists, clarinetists and cellists as they play in perfect unison.

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