If you visit Starlink’s website—the satellite Internet service owned by Elon Musk—and search for Cuba, you will see that the service is unavailable. However, the situation on the ground seems to tell a different story. Some Cubans residing in the country have been using Starlink for months.

On February 26, 2025, Cuba’s telecommunications monopoly advised its customers, as a temporary measure, to set their phones to 2G frequency. “This way, the connection will be more stable, and you will be able to receive calls and SMS, and also use Transfermóvil,” a payment gateway.

During the onset of the current session of Cuba’s National Assembly, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero spoke about the results of the government’s management in 2024, a year when Cuba’s crisis worsened significantly, and the measures they plan to implement in 2025.

On December 3, 2024, an investigation by journalist Nora Gamez Torres published in El Nuevo Herald uncovered the links between the company Orbit S.A. and the Cuban regime. Since March 2023, Orbit —partnered with the multinational Western Union— has been managing a portion of the remittances sent to the island.

Despite constant reports of investments in hydraulic resources, an average of more than one million Cubans (around 10% of the total population) had difficulties accessing running water in mid-September 2024, according to official data.

Cubans "recruited" to fight in Ukraine denounce deception, swindles and mistreatment. Former soldiers reveal details of the network that recruited them with false promises.

elTOQUE contacted the partner of one Cuban who emigrated to Russia to join the army. “It’s a war contract,” she said.

Since October 2020, more than 400,000 Cubans have entered through the southern border of the U.S. How many of those migrants had animals in their care? How many are now living with those pets?

The shortage of physical cash in ATMs in several provinces has provoked criticism from the public and questioning of the institutional silence.