Havana

A horse-drawn cart carrying several people travels along a rural road past a large solar panel farm in the background
Energy
Cubans adapt to crisis, but resilience has its limits
11:23
A street vendor with a cart full of assorted goods, including snacks and cigarettes, stands on a waterfront promenade as people sit along a low wall by the sea. The street is lined with people and buildings in the background, while two motorbikes with headlights on pass by on the road.
Energy
Cuba’s crisis, as told through Cuban voices
8:04
View from inside a car focused on small Cuban and American flags on the dashboard, with blurred figures visible through the windshield.
Global Politics
A brief history of US-Cuba relations
11:40
A person standing on a dock saluting a large orange cargo ship named 'Ocean Mariner' as it passes by on the water.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Cuba’s private businesses navigate a narrow opening
8:08
The World's Global Classroom
‘What’s the greatest knowledge a person can have? Know thyself’: Morgan State University hosts banned book symposium in Cuba
Global Politics
Ten years after Washington’s historic deal with Havana, Cuba remains adrift
10:38
Singer Gloria Estefan performs at the Statue of Liberty Museum opening celebration at Battery Park, in New York, May 15, 2019.
Music
Gloria Estefan is set to be the first Hispanic woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
man and woman by border
Migration
What’s behind the exodus of Cubans?
Namibia Flores was the only female boxer in Cuba for years. She has been training for almost two decades, with the dream of representing Cuba at the Olympics. 
Sports
Cuba to allow women boxers to compete after decades of restrictions
Anti-government protesters march in Havana, Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs
Justice
‘Obliged to exile’: Cuban activist Tania Bruguera on the plight of artist Hamlet Lavastida
A black and white photo of Buena Vista Social Club members Ibrahim Ferrer, Eliades Ochoa, Comapy Segundo and Puntillita Licea.
Music
25 years later, the Buena Vista Social Club still connects the world through old-school mambo
In this Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, tourists ride classic convertible cars on the Malecon beside the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba. 
Conflict
Havana syndrome is ‘an act of war and we have to stop it’ former CIA agent says
Eusebio Torres waits to be vaccinated as a nurse prepares the dose of the Cuban Abdala COVID-19 vaccine at the Gustavo Aldereguia hospital in Cienfuegos, Cuba, Sunday, May 30, 2021.
COVID-19
Cuba’s promise of a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine  
A woman wearing a purple shirt is shown with her hands out stretched and shouting among a large crowd of people.
Protest
Protesters in Cuba are calling for the ‘end of the communist state,’ historian says
Group of people gather outside a church for a prayers
Immigration
Cuban Americans make plea to Biden administration for help on immigration limbo
Raúl Castro is shown wearing a dark suit and red tie with his left arm raised and finger pointing.
Global Politics
A retiring Castro to bring younger face to Cuba’s communists
Medical students walk past a Cuban flag as they check door to door for people with symptoms amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in downtown Havana, Cuba, May 12, 2020.
COVID-19
As Cuba battles coronavirus, activists see an opening to protest police brutality
Angkor Wat is shown by a pond at sunrise.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘World Heritage’ site selection is Eurocentric – and that shapes which historic places get love and money
a gay rights march in havana
LGBTQ
Cuba’s LGBTQ community laments canceled anti-homophobia march
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera stands with her arms in the air, and dozens of people behind her, standing in the same position
Artist Tania Bruguera says Cuba’s latest crackdown on the arts is ‘the legalization of censorship’
A woman holds a protest sign in Spanish.
Global Politics
US considers sanctions on Cuba for helping Venezuela’s dissent crackdown
people on the street walking in havana
Global Politics
What will change with Cuba’s proposed new constitution?
capitol building and theater in havana, cuba
Global Politics
Cuba opens discussion of constitution overhaul to citizens abroad
Cuba's First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his wife Lis Cuesta stand in line before Diaz-Canel casts his vote during an election of candidates for the national and provincial assemblies.
Economics
Cuba’s Communist Party admits errors, slowdown in reforms
US embassy in Cuba
Global Politics
More details but no answers in brain trauma cases of US diplomats in Cuba
George Keays
Lifestyle
Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine. Many US patients can’t get it without breaking the law.
Telmary Diaz performs at Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht in Havana, Cuba.
Music
Despite challenges, this Cuban rapper’s American show goes on
Tourists walk in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 8, 2017.
Global Politics
Trump’s new restrictions on travel to Cuba are being panned by American travelers
US Marines raise the American flag at half-staff at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Oct. 2, 2017.
Conflict
US expels Cuban diplomats in the latest threat to US-Cuban relations
A view of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, September 29, 2017.
Technology
A secret sonic weapon in Havana? Scientists say ‘no way.’
Veteran Cuban weather forecaster Jose Rubiera is now retired. But when a big storm hits, he returns to his broadcasts, to the relief of many Cubans.
Science
To reassure Cubans, a revered meteorologist returns to the airwaves
Members of social dance club, Rueda de la Calle DC, perform Cuban salsa dances on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, October 15, 2015.
Music
Call it clave, or call it hambone — the beat’s the same
A military vehicle transports the ashes of Cuba's late President Fidel Castro at the start of a three-day journey to the eastern city of Santiago, in Havana, Cuba, November 30, 2016.
Economics
Trump’s plan restricts travel and business with Cuba
Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal in Boston, 2017
Music
The World’s music features this week: Daymé Arocena and Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal
Cuba tourists
Culture
Havana’s small business boom exposes a stark racial divide
Cuban youth
Economics
In Cuba, young people are weighing professional dreams against the allure of the new economy
Fidel Castro
Development
Post-Fidel Castro Cuba isn’t that different from before
Transformistas
Culture
Cuba’s transformistas bring their drag performances out in the open
Small business owner Mady Zulueta outside her store, Zulu, in a prime area of Old Havana, Cuba.
Economics
Uncertain what’s next, Cubans go about their business while they wait for a signal from Trump
Normal Guillard
Development
How life has changed for these Cuban women over 20 years
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera has been arrested by authorities in Havana three times in recent years.
Global Politics
Cuba’s most controversial artist sketches the island’s post-Fidel future
Musician Frilal Ortiz carries a double bass in downtown Havana
Music
Here’s a taste of Cuban music in the time of Castro
Cuban musician Harold López-Nussa is pictured here, in Havana.
Music
How improving US-Cuba relations has helped this jazz musician
Street concert in Havana with Silvio Rodriguez on stage
Music
Silvio Rodríguez has been playing secret free concerts in poor Cuban neighborhoods for years
Arturo Sandoval
Music
How Dizzy Gillespie and Dan Quayle helped this Cuban musician defect
Researchers, seen through a window, work at Cuba's Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana, 2015.
Science
How a Communist island nation became a biotech powerhouse
President Barack Obama and his family with Cuban President Raul Castro at an exhibition baseball game between the Cuban National team and the MLB Tampa Bay Rays in Havana.
Global Politics
Obama to Cuba: ‘I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas’
US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro gesture after a news conference as part of President Obama's three-day visit to Cuba. In Havana March 21, 2016.
Media
Freedom of the press ‘rattled’ Raúl Castro, causing him to answer a question with a lie
Cuban jazz drummer Yissy Garcia
Music
A path-breaking Cuban concert — and a climate for more
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera reads from Hannah Arendt's book "The Origins of Totalitarianism" as part of a 100-hour collective reading in Havana May 20, 2015.
Justice
Cubans ‘don’t understand … things like freedom of expression are things that belong to them’
Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra on stage at NYC's Birdland
Music
For jazz pianist, Obama’s trip to Cuba ‘beyond what I’d ever thought I’d see’
Ariadna Pérez Ballester is the only female skater in Camagüey, a city of 300,000 in central Cuba.
Culture
Skateboarding is technically illegal, but that’s not stopping the girls of Havana
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, left, and Roman Catholic Pope Francis, right, met in Cuba Friday — a historic moment for the religions they represent, which have been at odds for 1,000 years.
Conflict
How the Middle East brought Eastern and Western Christianity together again — in officially atheist Cuba
This home once belonged to the Schechter family in Cuba
Global Politics
‘The property was stolen by the Cuban government’
Members of the Buena Vista Social Club performing at The White House.
Music
The next big gig for Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club? The White House.
Cuba's President Raul Castro oversees a handshake between Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos (left) and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono (right), better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko.
Conflict
Bitter foes strike a deal for peace in Colombia
A triple of posters from left to right: “Take Heed, Hold Fast the Rope of Mother Wit” by Shahrzad Changalvaee (Tehran); “La Casa de Bernarda Alba” by Darwin Fornés (Havana); “A Family X-Mas” by David Gallo (Seattle).
Arts
Linking Havana, Tehran and Seattle through art, posters
Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco's memoir is The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood.
Culture
A Cuban American poet sees a brighter future for dissident artists on the island
Elaine Diaz is a professor of journalism at the University of Havana.
Media
A Havana journalism professor is testing the limits of media freedom in fast-changing Cuba
A beautiful sound and light installation with mirrors by 24-year-old Cuban artist Rachel Valdés Camejo. I met Rachel on my last day in Havana, and just had to check out her exhibition before heading to the airport after an amazing week at the Havana Bienn
Culture
Seeing the art and culture of the Havana Biennial