Cuba's Díaz-Canel defends economic reforms, blames U.S. for crisis

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel defended a sweeping package of economic reforms, while blaming U.S. sanctions for the deepening economic crisis.
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Cuba's cigar crisis is the worst it's been in decades

Empty Shelves, Scarce Smoke: Cuba's Cigar Crisis Is the Worst in Decades Walk into a premium tobacco shop in London, Toronto, or Dubai right now and ask for a Cohiba Siglo VI or a Montecristo No. 2.

Cuba tourism crisis: An industry brought to 'almost total paralysis'

Cuba’s tourism industry has been hit hard by US sanctions and fuel shortages, with nearly three-quarters of hotels now closed on the island. View on euronews

Cuba loosens control of its private sector in a struggle with a mounting humanitarian crisis

The reforms come as Cuba has been pushed to the brink by an oil blockade imposed by the United States in January. The move by the Trump administration, meant to put pressure on the government, worsened already crippling blackouts, cut workers off from public transport, crippled infrastructure and deepened shortages in medicine and food.
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Crisis-hit Cuba opens pharmacies, gas stations to private firms

Cuba moved to open crisis-ravaged parts of the state-run economy to private firms Wednesday, as the communist government struggles to ease acute shortages resulting from a US energy blockade. The United States has effectively blockaded fuel imports to Cuba for almost six months,

The Cuban Way

As our journalists discovered, even amid Cuba’s worst ever energy crisis, with mass blackouts plaguing the electrical grid, the Cuban government — and the Cuban people — are still standing. “After a week on the ground,

Cuban 'Amazons' deliver 'absolutely essential' food during crisis

Online services known as "Cuban Amazons" that allow Cubans abroad to send food and basic staples to families are playing an outsized role in Cuba
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Cuba in crisis amid pressure from Trump administration: 5 things to know

Cuban officials on Friday announced that the island country has run out of oil and diesel as it grapples with a worsening humanitarian crisis in the face of increasing pressure from the Trump administration to change its ways under U.S. terms or risk ...

How Cubans Are Surviving a Fuel Crisis

Cubans are inventing ways to survive without fuel or electricity, using solar panels, makeshift generators and batteries to endure a devastating oil blockade imposed by the Trump administration.

Cuba: Further blackouts disrupt energy restoration attempts

Authorities say unfavorable weather in the Caribbean has hampered efforts to restore power to Cuba's national grid amid repeated blackouts. Many Cubans now have power only for a few hours a day.