Ordinary Cubans are trapped in a vicious circle of government mismanagement exacerbated by the US embargo. Germinares Cardero Céspedes lives in hilly Segundo Frente, a coffee-growing community at the ...

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 ...

Gabriela Blanco speaks to OHS students Friday at the Performing Arts Center and shows photos from her childhood. She reviewed life in Cuba and the importance of not taking your freedom for granted.

Cuba's best known novelists hold up critical mirror to their country. HAVANA - Neither political dissidents nor government mouthpieces, Cuba's two most widely acclaimed writers hold a critical mirror ...

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, ...

When she fell in love with Maikel, Yen Nhi discovered Ropa Vieja (Spanish for old clothes), a dish that mirrors everyday life in Cuba. The national dish is made from shredded beef stewed with tomato ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has ...

At 32, Conner Gorry left New York and moved to Havana for a job as a journalist. After living there for 20 years, she saw herself as an immigrant, rather than an expat. Since her return last year, ...