After the deaths of the two men, it was Nicolás Maduro - trained and instructed in Cuba - who became Chávez's handpicked successor, chosen partly because he was acceptable to the Castro brothers. He represented continuity for the Cuban revolution as much as the Venezuelan one.

Rubio has emerged as a key figure behind the Trump administration’s Venezuela strategy. A Cuban descendant often described as Trump’s Man Friday on the issue, Rubio’s background, political influence and close ties to the Cuban and Venezuelan diaspora explain why he has taken such a central role as tensions in the region continue to escalate.

During a power outage, two men sit in a bicycle cab in Havana in October 2024. Amid President Trump’s threats to start a global trade war, invade Greenland, seize control of the Panama Canal and annex Canada, this story has gone virtually unnoticed: Cuba ...

MICHAEL J. BUSTAMANTE is Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami and the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile.

Cuba's energy crisis, characterized by frequent blackouts and fuel shortages, is causing significant economic hardship and social unrest. The crisis is attributed to aging infrastructure, lack of investment, and the US embargo, which hinders fuel imports ...

Hospitals are overwhelmed and fatalities are soaring. The island is suffering from combined viruses that include dengue, chikungunya, Oropouche and other respiratory diseases

Cuba, which for decades was one of the largest exporters of sugar in the world, now has to import sugar to meet its domestic demand. Six decades after the Cuban Revolution, the country is again undergoing a severe economic crisis, this time worse than the ...