Cuba is facing a shortage of religious vocations to the point that the country is losing almost one women’s religious ...

Cuba’s top court has sentenced former Economy Minister Alejandro Gil to life in prison for espionage following a closed-door trial, in one of the country’s highest-profile cases in decades. In a ...

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 ...

These glimpses of daily life in Cuba were taken two weeks ago during my eighth trip to the island. There's nothing extradorinary about the scenes. (Read my column about Cuba published last Sunday.) ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rafael, the 17th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall in western Cuba as a major, Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday afternoon. Although it has since weakened to a Category 2 ...

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 ...

I recently had the opportunity to travel with a group of musicians (who played at a number of venues in Havana) and other interested folks with a focus on attending the yearly International Jazz ...

Approximately 6.3 million companion animals enter U.S. animal shelters each year, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Statistically, 920,000 of those animals ...

Cuba’s top court says a former economy minister was sentenced to life in prison for espionage, in the highest-profile case against an ex-official in recent years on the island HAVANA -- Cuba's top ...