
Surviving in the most unequal Cuba
The island suffers from long, daily power outages, while goods are accessible to few consumers. The only thing that seems to remain intact from the Cuban Revolution are its slogans

The island suffers from long, daily power outages, while goods are accessible to few consumers. The only thing that seems to remain intact from the Cuban Revolution are its slogans

Be it a grandmother with three decades in the United States, or a Cuban man imprisoned for 17 years: experts say that no matter how much a migrant pays their debt to justice, they will always be marked by their criminal record

Furrowed brows, bursts of laughter and well-deserved pride all capture the passage of time – beyond a century – on the faces of the characters in this story. There are nearly 17,000 of them in Spain, the country with the longest life expectancy after Japan

The Spanish anthropologist goes past the image of Tlaxacalan traitors to speak of a population with well-defined sociopolitical structures and sophisticated art forms

Hundreds of migrants live crowded together in Ciudad Juárez, awaiting legal changes in the US, while others have already settled with the idea of staying

The consequences of Trump’s immigration policy are also economic — without their primary breadwinners, family members are losing everything they worked so hard to achieve

Michael B. Fernández has been anonymously funding a campaign against the Trump administration’s immigration agenda for months. Now he says he wants to enter politics

Are the estimated 700 million felines on Earth the sacred animals of our times?

In the era of ChatGPT, a traditional trade continues in Havana. Women read songs and novels aloud to the workers who hand-roll cigars, while also answering their questions

Pedro Lorenzo Concepción has been in the controversial Florida detention center since July 9. He decided to stop eating nine days ago to protest his detention and that of many others like him

‘I’m preparing for the worst,’ says the 26-year-old’s mother. Earlier in July, Yan Carlos González González died in another prison after going more than 40 days without food in protest against a sentence he considered unjust

Every day, migrants expelled by the Trump administration arrive in Guatemala. Others are turning back before even reaching the US-Mexico border, defeated by the growing difficulties. Returnees carry with them a sense of failure

Recent arrivals are experiencing a ‘perfect storm.’ On one hand, the Republican Party has aligned itself against immigrants; on the other, the Cuban-American community is no longer united

Over the course of a month, EL PAÍS followed the daily lives of several men held in a prison for foreigners that they call a ‘living hell.’ Speaking from the inside, they described the appalling conditions, the climate of fear, and the lives that have been taken from them by Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade

The leader praised China and Russia on the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, in a ceremony that lacked any high-profile international guests

At 33, with nearly 115,000 Instagram followers, he is the most talked-about Castro in Cuba today and one of the most potent symbols of the revolution’s decline

No one believes in the revolution anymore. The Díaz-Canel government does not inspire any affection or respect. The country produces almost nothing, and Trump has imposed new sanctions just when Cubans couldn’t imagine life getting any worse

Miguel Díaz-Canel’s administration has once again imprisoned opposition figures released after negotiations with Pope Francis

Marta Elena Feitó’s statements provoked a wave of popular indignation, with even President Díaz-Canel distancing himself from the politician

Trump’s policies have destroyed the traditional map of migration. Arrests of people in transit on their way to the northern border have dropped to historic lows. Now families are returning to their countries of origin or adapting to life in Mexico

Human Rights Watch has gathered testimonies from those detained during the July 11, 2021 protests. Four years on, hundreds remain behind bars

The 75-year-old man, who spent his days in a Miami park and had a fragile heart, was detained by immigration agents on June 5 and died on June 26 from causes still under investigation

A White House memo calls for tightening the embargo on the island, though economists dismiss these measures as ‘more of the same’

EL PAÍS reconstructs the last movements of a group of 40 migrants from Cuba, Honduras and Ecuador who disappeared on December 21, 2024, in San José El Hueyate, on the coast of Chiapas. Six months later, no authorities have begun to search for them.

The official aims to promote the island beyond its traditional ‘sun and sand’ appeal, calling the measures imposed by the Trump administration ‘irrational’

A dozen families find themselves in an immigration limbo by decision of one court in the Eastern District of Washington

The travel ban is seen as a show of disloyalty to two communities that supported the Republican: ‘One day he takes one thing from us, the next day something else’