Faby Rodríguez, 22, did not think she would be detained that morning, that it would be her last day of freedom in the United States. She arrived on time for her immigration check-in appointment in San Antonio, Texas, as she always had. That day, her journey back to Cuba began.

They offer contracts in US dollars and work visas for the island of Grenada to Cuban masons and carpenters.

Diaz Canel admitted that his government’s price caps failed to contain inflation and often led to the disappearance of products.

On March 2, 2026, Cuban state media echoed a meeting of the Council of Ministers in which Miguel Diaz-Canel said that urgent transformations in the country’s economic and social model had to be promoted. Among those possible transformations was a change in the ways the state and private sectors of the economy can associate with one another. Hours later, the Official Gazette published Decree-Law 114/2025 and a complementary regulation governing partnerships between state-owned business entities and private actors.

There is fuel for police patrol cars, but not to provide electricity to families. Between May 11 and 16, 2026, various citizen reports showed a heavy deployment of police vehicles in the streets of Havana.