The Caribbean

Cuban youth

In Cuba, young people are weighing professional dreams against the allure of the new economy

March 23, 2017Economics

If they study hard they’ll get jobs in the fields they’ve chosen, but they can make a lot more money in the new tourism economy.

Small business owner Mady Zulueta outside her store, Zulu, in a prime area of Old Havana, Cuba.

Uncertain what’s next, Cubans go about their business while they wait for a signal from Trump

March 13, 2017Economics

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.

Cubans ‘don’t understand … things like freedom of expression are things that belong to them’

March 17, 2016Justice

Elaine Diaz is a professor of journalism at the University of Havana.

A Havana journalism professor is testing the limits of media freedom in fast-changing Cuba

June 10, 2015Media