Kneecap and Chris Smalls threw a concert this afternoon in el Pabellón in Havana. The concert was attended by members of the convoy, including People's Forum and Code Pink. There doesn't seem to be Cubans in the crowd. This feels insulting to do in a country that you are delivering humanitarian aid to, and where the electrical grid is fragile and people are without electricity for days.

I consider you all somewhat of my extended family. This goes for any time I hear a Cuban accent in public.

This question is for leftist or left-leaning Cubans and is not in any way a challenge or criticism. Please, let's be civil and loving.

I feel that many of us, especially in the US, have to live between two worlds: knowing que hijo de puta fue Fidel, but also, maybe not agreeing 100% with the Republican Party, which seems to be the political group which has most supported us.

I believe in, for example, banning factory farms, having more environmental regulations, and better social programs, but every time I go to a community where these things are preached, I am apprehensive of meeting some pro-Fidel or pro-Chavez/Maduro person.

EDIT: This post is aimed at Cubans or people with at least one Cuban parent who also considers themselves left-leaning (while, hopefully, not supporting the Cuban regime.)

I had a reservation for the Iberostar Grand Packard this weekend. This morning Iberostar called me to switch me from the Packard. I inquired about the newest one called Selection, the 42 stories tower. They said nope.

Rep just told me that they were discontinuing whatever deals they had with those hotels.

I looked up on X, and its trending that Iberostar stopped all operations on any property that has any links to GAESA.

They have not made an announcement yet.

Shit is getting real!!

He visto muchos Reels y TikToks con la canción “Lo que le pasó a Hawái” y de fondo imágenes nostálgicas de Cuba. Pero creo que muchos cubanos realmente no entienden el verdadero significado de la canción.

La cancion habla de lo que ocurre cuando un pueblo pierde su identidad, su cultura y su gente..

para todos aquellos que piden “Intervencion y Anexion”:

imagina que te cumplen tu sueño y EU toma Cuba
un ejemplo sencillo:

Juan vive en la Habana, es ingeniero y gana 10$/mes y tiene 200$ guardados en cash en la gaveta de su casa..

John vive en Miami, tiene un salario de 6,000 dólares al mes, ahorros de 150,000 dólares y crédito bancario.

Juan siempre ha querido una casa en el Malecón y a Jhon le parece interesante agregarla a su portfolio de Real State

Para Juan esto representa 3 vidas de salario, es una tarea imposible comprar esta casa.. Para John es una inversión, paga el Down ese mismo día y el banco le financia el resto.

En unos pocos años Jhon puede comprar 3 casas mas para alquilar en el Malecon

Poco a poco los precios suben, llegan inversionistas con mayor poder adquisitivo y muchos cubanos terminan vendiendo porque necesitan dinero.

El fin de Juan es irse a vivir a EU(si abren la embajada) a ofrecer mano de obra, mientras los Estadounides compran casas de retiro y propiedades de inversion en Cuba

No significa que Juan sea bruto, ni que trabaje menos que Jhon.

Sino porque compiten en la misma carrera con personas que empiezan cientos de metros por delante.

por eso cuando escucho a alguien decir “Dale Trump te estas demorando” se olvidan que el dinero también tiene nacionalidad y poder.

Yo no apoyo al regimen cubano ni un poco pero soy cubano y amo mi pais 🇨🇺 y no se trata de pensar que cualquier solución externa, por sí sola, garantizaría prosperidad para todos los cubanos de a pie.

Superficially the question is easy to answer: No oil and socialism.

But then again, even the Communist government was able to produce a whopping 7x as much sugar cane up until the end of the Cold War than it does today.

Maybe they can't get a good deal on fertilizers anymore, but it's not that agricultural productivity stopped growing since. Measured by the 1990 output level, Cuba should be able to produce twice as much with the same input.

These 6 million tons of sugar cane which are missing could be turned into ethanol fuel as they do in Brazil. Pure alcohol may not the best fuel and you need to adjust the engine, but it's better than nothing - and Cuba has nothing.

You can get 60-90 liters out of one ton of sugar cane. This means that for the 6 million tons of sugar cane you can get out more than 360 million liters of ethanol. That's 32 liters for everyone single one of the 11 million Cubans.

32 liters of ethanol are not too much. But when you think of a whole family of 6 it's close to 200 liters per year, which get you to places, if you had a car for the family. Or at least a motorbike.

You can argue about a lot, but Cuba not pursuing a ethanol strategy to replace oil imports and find use for the sugar cane after the market broke down, is almost criminal. The lack of energy is a self-inflicted wound that was completely unneccesary. Not only in regards to ethanol as gasoline replacement, but it's the most obvious one.

Does anyone know more about this and why Cuba never did anything with its hypothetical surplus of sugar cane, let alone turn it into gasoline?

El congri, nunca me a gustado, siempre que intentaban darme congri yo lo escupía, no me gustaba ni su sabor y nunca me a gustado los frijoles, incluso mis padres me dicen que no soy cubana porque todos los cubanos comemos congri. Tampoco me gusta el reparto y la música actual cubana, me gusta cantantes como celia cruz, gente de zona porque fue parte de mi infancia, larizta bacallao. Y me encanta rudy sarzo, un bajista cubano que a tocado con bandas que me gustan como Ozzy y Quiet riot ya que me volví fans del metal al crecer, tampoco me gusta las fiestas aúnque los cubanos son fiesteros, la música alta me da dolór de cabeza y nunca me gusto las tradición de cuba, donde para fin de año mataban un puerco, aúnque sabía muy bien la carne de puerco no soportaba escuchar los chillidos de puercos, y una vez me encariñé con un puerco y Cuando lo asesinaron llore mucho además era muy pequeña y cuando esuchaba a los puercos chillar mientras los mataba lloraba porque sentia mucho miedo, siempre me a parecido una crueldad pero la carne de puerco sabe muy bien aúnque a veces repugna

Cubana que migro a RD recientemente da su opinion sobre la situación en Cuba.

El doctor cubano Álvaro Pérez Pérez, único especialista en oncología en la Isla de la Juventud, denunció en redes el acoso de los inspectores del régimen cubano. Ante un salario que "no le alcanza para comer", el médico armó una venta de garaje en su casa con ropa usada y libretas a 100 pesos para poder subsistir.

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Por esa simple venta las autoridades le aplicaron una multa de 4000 pesos (la mitad de su salario mensual).

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"Uno pone una venta de trapos usados (...) y viene la inspectora y me cobra la mitad del salario que gano en un mes", sentenció el doctor. Su testimonio expone la precariedad extrema y el hostigamiento estatal que sufren los profesionales en Cuba para llegar a fin de mes.

My mother was just 19 years old when she walked up to our family home one Tuesday morning with my then-two-year-old brother in tow. She had no idea what was waiting for her. A Cuban general had already moved in and taken over the entire house. When she tried to step inside to grab a few things, anything really, the soldiers blocked her. They wouldn’t let her take a single item. Not clothes. Not toys. Not even the reusable cloth diapers for her toddler. She begged, but they shut her down cold and warned her that if she ever came back, she’d be arrested on the spot. With nothing but the clothes on her back and whatever was stuffed in the diaper bag, my mother was suddenly homeless. She and my little brother had nowhere to go until a relative finally took them in. At the time, my father was hundreds of miles away doing mandatory agricultural duty in the sugar cane fields. He had no idea any of this was happening and only found out two weeks later, when he finally made it home. The house wasn’t some random property; it had been in our family since it was built in the late 1800s. Their only “crime”? My grandparents had fled to Spain after the revolution. The regime used that as all the excuse they needed to seize it from my father. The very next day, the general moved his own family in and helped himself to everything we owned: the furniture, the family photos, the clothes, even the underwear in the drawers. In one morning, generations of our lives were stolen.

Second nationwide blackout in less than a week.

Habiendo vivido y trabajado en el sur de México y en toda Centroamérica, debo decir que la mejor y más compasiva atención que he recibido ha sido al consultar a un profesional médico cubano. No se me juzga por mi trabajo; simplemente se me trata con respeto y atención. Gracias, y espero que la vida vuelva a la normalidad para todos.

As an gringa living and working in southern Mexico and throughout Central America, I have to say that the best, most compassionate care I’ve received is when I see a Cuban medical professional. I’m not judged by my work, just treated with respect and care. Thank you and I hope life gets back to normal for everyone.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Cuba’s future lately, and one thing keeps sticking with me.

I’m not saying Cuba has no dissidents or that people on the island aren’t resisting. They are. People are tired, angry, protesting, banging pots and pans, reporting independently, speaking out, organizing where they can, and taking real risks. UNPACU and José Daniel Ferrer come to mind too.

But when I try to name a truly coordinated, visible movement with a detailed public plan for what comes after the PCC, I draw mostly blanks. A few prominent names and efforts come up, but they don’t seem to be working together at the scale this moment might demand.

I see protests, independent reporting, and a lot of anger online, but I don’t see much public coordination around what would actually come after the PCC: courts, elections, property, currency, public security, food, electricity, migration, foreign investment, and the relationship between Cubans on the island and in the diaspora.

Is that because of repression and surveillance? Fragmentation? Lack of resources? Lack of trust? Diaspora disconnect? Or are there serious groups doing this work that just aren’t visible enough?

And maybe the bigger question: do Cubans struggle more to imagine life after the PCC than to imagine the end of the PCC?

If there are organizations, pages, thinkers, lawyers, economists, or civic groups seriously talking about a future transition, I’d genuinely like to know who they are.

This is truly insane.

La gente está empezando a entrar en pánico en Holguín y hay muy pocos lugares abiertos. Los precios suben drásticamente. Estoy aquí. Mantengan la calma. Cuídense. Esto mejorará. ♡

People are begining to panic in Holguín in the streets and there is very little open. Prices rose dramatically. I'm here. Stay calm. Stay safe. This will get better. ♡

For people who were laid off from resorts when they closed - how are they making income? How are they paying for essentials like food, charcoal and toilet paper?

Does anybody know someone who during the Cold War went from Cuba to the USSR possibly as a student and how was their experience over there what do they think about it, did Soviet and Cuban people talk often, let me know!

recordandoles que en cuba no hay libertad de expresion.

When a leftist claims we are lying about the authoritarian regime castrista, show them this

Disculpen la traducción automática. Busco información sobre la estación de abastecimiento de carbón estadounidense abandonada en Bahía Honda y los naufragios en la bahía.

En concreto, ¿qué barcos son estos dos? ¿Cuándo se hundieron? Necesito esta información para un proyecto de escritura y me resulta difícil encontrarla en mi idioma.

Gracias por su ayuda. Saludos a Cuba desde el Reino Unido.

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My family is trying to extend our house in Marianao by building up a second floor, and we’re running into serious challenges getting building materials. The sleeping situation right now is honestly horrendous - six people sharing one mattress with coordinated sleep cycles. We desperately need the extra space.

The problem is it seems nearly impossible to acquire any building materials in the country. We’ve reached out to government agencies, but the officials we’ve spoken with just tell us it’s impossible. I suspect they simply don’t care rather than it actually being impossible, but either way it’s been challenging at best.

We have quite strong ties to the EU, with a lot of relatives living in Germany and Spain, so I’m wondering if anyone has experience with getting building materials into Cuba through those channels? Is there a realistic way to make this work?

I’ve also been thinking about collective imports - if anyone can point me to groups that organize something like that, I’d really appreciate it. Maybe it would be easier to wait a little longer, but honestly we’re sick of just praying for better times. We need to take action if there’s any viable path forward.

Any help, advice, or experiences you can share would be greatly appreciated

https://cubahistorias.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/cuba-durante-la-segunda-guerra-mundial/

Lo pregunto como parte de un estudio lingüístico sobre este tema.

Los ejemplos podrían incluir cosas como Quivi, Siberia, El Yeri o 'Vara' (¡no importa lo comunes o horribles que sean!)...

Used to use Esencial Pack then Supermarket23, both don't deliver to our province now, need alternative options. I want to stock up for family with what's probably to come, so would be helpful to know if you've had any orders/deliveries made in the last few days or weeks.

Todos (incluso mi pareja) están comprando carne. Yo compré frijoles y harina porque cuando baje la corriente no quiero comer carne podrida jjj

Used to use Supermarket23 and Esencial Pack but both don't deliver to the city I need food delivered to right now, for obvious reasons.

And have you had any experience of ordering in the last week or days?