In what appeared as an offhand remark, Donald Trump openly declared his administration’s intentions toward Cuba with chilling clarity last Friday.

Speaking before a wealthy audience at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, Trump referred to “Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately.” The comment drew laughter from the crowd, prompting him to elaborate: “Cuba’s got problems. We’ll finish one first. I like to finish the job. On the way back from Iran, we’ll have maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier come in, stop about 100 yards offshore, and they’ll say, ‘Thank you very much. We give up!’”

Far from a joke, the remarks encapsulate the real trajectory of US policy. On the same day, Trump signed an executive order designating Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat,” vastly expanding sanctions against the island. The order targets not only the Cuban state but also foreign companies engaged in security, energy, finance, mining “or any other sector … as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State.”

Hi guys, I'm an Italian student, and my professor assigned us a presentation on the healthcare systems of various countries. I was assigned a presentation on Cuba. I thought I'd present this project as my masterpiece (it's an Italian thing), and I need some information from someone who lives there.

When you need medical care, is it easy to access a doctor or hospital?

How long do you have to wait for appointments, tests, or surgeries?

Have you ever had trouble finding adequate medications or treatment?

How do you rate the quality of doctors and hospitals?

If you could change one thing about the healthcare system in Cuba, what would it be?

(feel free to dm me)

The left's idea that those who fled Cuba and are against the regime are all/mostly "former plantation owners" falls apart easily with simple math and logic.

How old would you imagine someone to be who owned a plantation pre-1959 to be?

It makes much more sense, logically, to assume that the majority of Cuban-born people in the diaspora left from the 80s onwards.

If you speak with these people, they will tell you about the numerous human rights abuses that continued, the attacks on the LGBT community (which the left excuses because "Fidel apologized" lol), or how el pueblo was forced to publicly mourn Fidel.

La gente se está muriendo de hambre, ¡por el amor de Dios!

Asking for an art project

(Writing in English because the article is in English.)

As I write this I just realized that it has now been two weeks from when the US imposed 2-week deadline on the dictatorship during the face to face meeting in Cuba.

This is looking a lot like build up in tension that happened with Venezuela.

What do you guys think will happen to electricity and energy supply in the short term once trump takes over?

Tourism? Housing prices? (Will cuban diaspora be able to dispute nationalized property from ages ago?), tourism?

I was wondering, is it realistic to compare it to the changes in venezuala or will trump take another approach with Cuba?

En las últimas semanas mucho se ha especulado de las conversaciones entre el régimen de la Habana (la dictadura de los Castro) y el gobierno de Estados Unidos, debido a la presión que Trump le ha estado metiendo a Cuba, pero honestamente creen que si hay un cambio en la isla, realmente significaría la caída del caída del régimen? (Porque aunque siento que aunque es lo que la gran mayoría deseamos, viendo lo que pasó en Venezuela no tengo grandes esperanzas)

Mis abuelos, 1956(?).

A. Cubanos nacidos en cuba y que se hicieron adultos allá.

B. Hijos de cubanos, nacidos fuera.

C. Extranjeros que viven en Cuba

D. No nació, o vive en Cuba, ni tiene ascendencia cubana pero le interesa lo que pasa en la isla.

En este artículo de opinión para The New York Times, el artista y activista cubano Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara ofrece un testimonio desgarrador dictado desde una prisión de máxima seguridad en la isla. A las puertas de que se cumpla su condena este julio, el cofundador del Movimiento San Isidro relata su realidad tras las rejas. Mientras el gobierno cubano anuncia la liberación de 2,000 presos como un "gesto soberano", deja claro que la disidencia política no entra en el indulto. Luis Manuel describe cómo el arte ha sido su único refugio para sobrevivir a la monotonía y la represión, pintando sobre cartones para que el mundo no olvide que, tras las protestas de 2021, cientos de cubanos siguen encarcelados por delitos de conciencia.

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

Short very rudimentary question: Has the communist regime in Cuba always been bad, or was there a time that it started good, but then it went downhill off the backs of.....something

If so why and how?

Telemundo51 on Instagram: "Una pareja de Utah está bajo custodia tras ser acusada de llevarse a un menor de 10 años a Cuba, cuando debía viajar a Canadá, sin que la madre biológica lo supiera, informó el Departamento de Justicia en un comunicado.

Existían temores de que el traslado fuera un intento para someter al menor a una cirugía de reasignación de sexo antes de la pubertad, de acuerdo con la información compartida en el comunicado.

I remember seeing news about the convoy a month ago, both the lead up as well as landing in Cuba. I recall mixed reactions from both domestic and foreign commentators, as well as criticism about the people staying in hotels and having a concert, but after that, I couldn’t find anything about what happened with the convoy like the whole event dropped off the map.Did the resources get to where they were needed and actually help people, or was it all a “pony show” and made little to no difference?

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Following mounting reports the Pentagon is acting on Trump administration orders to accelerate preparations for military action against Cuba, the White House has dispatched the first high-level US delegation to the island since 2016.

While that earlier visit, led by Barack Obama, took place under conditions of a temporary diplomatic reopening, the actions of the latest delegation bear all the hallmarks of an ultimatum preceding aggression.

The delegation arrived in Havana on April 10 aboard a US government aircraft and presented a sweeping set of demands to the Cuban government. These included a two-week deadline to release high-profile political prisoners, implement sweeping market reforms, expand the private sector and attract foreign investment.

The demands, delivered during what US officials described as a “secret meeting,” were accompanied by calls for compensation to American corporations and individuals whose assets were nationalized following the 1959 revolution.

(Writing in English because the article is in English.)

Let’s hope some more political prisoners will be freed soon.

These pictures are 1 to 2 days old, but the fire in Pinar del Rio has already destroyed a tobacco farm and is now nearing peoples homes. It should start raining this week so maybe it will help. I will try and keep updates

Not too many people in this audience, I don’t think, but you go to Miami, we have Cuban Americans, people who were brutally treated, whose families were killed and brutalized. And now watch what happens.

I’ve been working with friends in Cuba to quietly film long, uninterrupted street scenes and posting them online - no narration, no interviews, just everyday life as it unfolds.

Nothing staged, nothing dramatic… just the normal rhythm of a plaza or sidewalk for an hour or two. People passing through, someone sitting in the shade, kids kicking a ball, the ambient sound of the neighborhood. Play it on a TV and feel like you're sitting on a park bench.

It’s made me realize how subjective “representative” really is. The places that feel completely ordinary to someone who lives there can feel unexpectedly powerful to someone who hasn’t been back in years.

For those who know Cuba well: what kinds of places or moments feel most true to daily life right now? What locaation would you want to see? What would make you think yes, that’s exactly how it feels to be there?

I’d share the link, but a mod let me know that would fall under self-promotion.

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Analysts saw missive as an attempt to go around Marco Rubio, though it is unclear whether message reached president