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Cuba, a Small Island State Seeking to Manage Its Vulnerability
This article forms part of the special IPS coverage of the Solutions Forum, a high-level conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to be held Aug. 30-31.
International Cooperation Gives Biogas a Boost in Rural Cuba
Yunia Cancio cooked with firewood until a few years ago, when a biodigester was built on her family’s El Renacer farm in Cabaiguán, a municipality in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spír...
Cuban Farm Explores Sustainability by Hand
Most beginnings are rocky and sometimes the obstacles seem insurmountable, before they are finally overcome. This was certainly the case for the Finca Marta, a farm in Cuba that had to begin by d...
Cuban Women, Vulnerable to Climate Change, in the Forefront of the Struggle
When people ask marine biologist Angela Corvea why the symbol of her environmental project Acualina, which has transcended the borders of Cuba, is a little girl, she answers without hesitation: �...
Between Drought and Floods, Cuba Seeks to Improve Water Management
If you enjoy a good daily shower and water comes out every time you turn on the taps in your home, you should feel privileged. There are places in the world where this vital resource for life is ...
Castro’s Successor to Inherit Long-standing Conflict Between Cuba and the United States
Cuba’s tense relations with the United States under the administration of Donald Trump reflect a scenario of conflict that is not alien to the generation that will take over the country on Apr....
Foreign Investment Expands in Cuba…Despite Everything
“Maybe many of us thought that this project was a dream six years ago, but not anymore. The geography has completely changed, because of everything that has been built and the investments that ...
Cuban Immigration in the Eye of the Storm
Cuban migration to the United States is the great loser under Donald Trump’s hostile policy toward Cuba, and creates additional difficulties for citizens of this Caribbean island nation who wer...
The Cuban Revolution Has Lost Its Founder and Leader
Fidel Castro, who survived more than 600 assassination attempts and remained in power longer than any other leader in the history of Cuba, died Friday night at the age of 90. Visibly moved, Presi...
Colombia Includes Gender Focus for a Stable, Lasting Peace
The novel inclusion of a gender perspective in the peace talks that led to a historic ceasefire between the Colombian government and left-wing guerrillas is a landmark and an inspiration for effo...
Obama and Raúl Castro to Launch New Era with Historic Visit
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raúl Castro will go down in history as two statesmen who managed to overcome more than half a century of hostility to bring back together tw...
Cuba Needs a Law Against Gender Violence
Activists and researchers dedicated to the study of gender violence in Cuba insist on the need for a comprehensive law to protect the victims and prevent the problem, which was publicly ignored u...
Cubans Want to Know When They Will Feel the Effects of Thaw with U.S.
While the normalisation of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba is moving ahead, and the U.S. and Cuban flags have been proudly waving in Havana and Washington, respectively, s...
Immigration – Still a Pending Issue in Cuban-U.S. Relations
The crisis that has broken out at several border crossings in Latin America as a result of thousands of Cubans attempting to reach the United States has revived a problem that remains unresolved ...
Water Shortages Have a Heavy Impact on Women in Cuba
Denia Arrascaeta suffers water shortages on a near daily basis in the neighbourhood in the Cuban capital where she lives. “Sometimes I don’t even have water to drink,” she told IPS. At her ...
United Arab Emirates and Cuba Forge Closer Ties
Cuba and the United Arab Emirates agreed to strengthen diplomatic ties and bilateral cooperation during an official visit to this Caribbean island nation by the UAE minister of foreign affairs, S...
From Punta del Este to Panama, the End of Cuba’s Isolation
U.S. President Barack Obama was only four days old when Comandante Ernesto “Che” Guevara publicly castigated the United States’ policy of hostility toward Cuba at an inter-American summit, ...
Cuba and U.S. Skirt Obstacles to Normalisation of Ties
The biggest discrepancies in the first meeting to normalise relations between Cuba and the United States, after more than half a century, were over the issue of human rights. But what stood out i...
Cuban Diplomacy Looks Towards Both Brussels and Washington
Cuba has decided to move ahead in its talks with the European Union towards an agreement on cooperation parallel to the negotiations aimed at normalising relations with the United States after mo...
Family Farming Eases Food Shortages in Eastern Cuba
Meat and vegetables are never missing from the dinner table of Damaris González and Omar Navarro, since they get almost all of their food from their farm, La Revelación, on the outskirts of the...
Thaw with U.S. Finds Transformed Civil Society in Cuba
The normalisation of relations between Cuba and the United States opens up a new path of “readjustments not free of risks”, which forms part of the process of “national transformation” us...
U.S. Flag Can Be Seen Again in Cuba
The announcement that the United States and Cuba would reestablish diplomatic relations took most Cubans by surprise. Over half of the population was born after the severing of ties in 1961 and t...
Cuba’s Reforms Fail to Reduce Growing Inequality
One of the major challenges assumed by President Raúl Castro when he launched a series of reforms in Cuba is improving living standards in a country still suffering from a recession that began o...
Boosting Incomes and Empowering Rural Women in Cuba
Leonor Pedroso’s sewing machine has dressed children in the Cuban town of Florida for 30 years. But it was only a few months ago that the seamstress was able to become formally self-employed. �...
Cuba’s Sugar Industry to Use Bagasse for Bioenergy
Cuba’s sugar industry hopes to become the main source of clean energy in the country as part of a programme to develop renewable sources aimed at reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels an...
Cuba Sees Its Future in Mariel Port, Hand in Hand with Brazil
The Mariel special economic development zone, the biggest construction project undertaken in decades in Cuba, emerged thanks to financial support from Brazil, which was based on political goodwil...
Caregiving Exacerbates the Burden for Women in Cuba
Hortensia Ramírez feels like she needs more hands to care for her 78-year-old mother, who suffers from arteriosclerosis, do the housework, and make homemade baked goods which she sells to suppor...
Cuba’s Youth Were the Target of USAID’s ZunZuneo
The generations born in Cuba in the last two or three decades, permeated by the influences of societies that differ radically from the one their government is trying to build, are in the eye of t...
Wanted: Foreign Investment in Cuba
A new law opening Cuba up to foreign investment and a shift in the country’s relations with the European Union are aimed at seeking outside support to overcome the chronic crisis plaguing the c...
CELAC Summit Targets Inequality
Heads of state and government at the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) made a joint commitment to reduce poverty, hunger and inequality, and declared t...
Cuba’s Reforms Don’t Believe in Tears
The landscape is changing in Cuba’s cities and towns, with political slogans giving way to lighted signs advertising the best of local and international cuisine and air-conditioned lodgings �...
Taking Efforts to Fight Prejudice in Cuba to the Barrios
From a very young age, Irma Castañeda has braided her curly hair and cared for it with natural recipes inherited from her mother, ignoring the widespread conception that black women’s hair is ...
Cuba’s Dual Currency System: A Death Foretold
An end to the country’s dual-currency system is one of the reforms most anxiously-awaited by Cubans, who nevertheless reacted with scepticism and doubt to the announcement of a timeline for eli...
Private Initiative Finds Garbage Profitable in Cuba
The ageold occupation of picking through trash for reusable materials is taking on a new dimension in Cuba for self-employed workers and members of cooperatives.
Rising Temperatures Hurt Pollination – and Food Production
Scientists have detected new effects of climate change in Cuba’s already strained agricultural sector.