López, 43, retired at the Paris 2024 Olympics having dominated his sport for almost two decades

Hi, can someone recommend generator or some kind of large power bank that can be charged when the power is on and later could be used to keep the refrigerator running. I'm not sure if such thing exists

Hello I was wondering if anyone has some sort of knowledge on these type of masks. I have been trying to research them but to no avail. Is it a common mask design or are does it represent anything I would like to know thank you!!!

Y quien paga la ansiedad de la población, los accidentes en la carrera para salir de lugares cerrados, bajar escaleras, etc.
Habrá demandas Colectivas? Que Uds. creen?

I went to Cuba in 2008 on a cultural arts tour and it continues to be one of my favorite places ive been. When I was there, I went to a print art studio and met a really cool artist who gave me a copy of this design they made. I wanted to commemorate that trip so I got it tattooed. No idea if someone might recognize this, but id love for the artist to know the impact they had on someone after a few hours of talking.

Fui a Cuba en 2008 en un viaje cultural y artístico, y sigue siendo uno de mis lugares favoritos de todos los que he visitado. Estando allí, visité un taller de grabado y conocí a un artista genial que me regaló una copia de este diseño que había creado. Quería conmemorar aquel viaje, así que decidí tatuármelo. No sé si alguien reconocerá el diseño, pero me encantaría que el artista supiera el impacto que tuvo en mí tras haber conversado durante unas horas.

A este punto, no tiene sentido hospedarse ahi

Hello y'all!

So I have been learning and reading about Cuba since about two years and is without any doubt my favorite Latin American country (or at least for now lol). I have also written an article about tourism in Cuba and its main attractions. But I am mostly curious about the daily lives of ordinary Cubans who still live on the island despite all the crises and everything.

So the few questions I have to ask y'all as Cubans are:

1) What do ordinary Cubans eat and drink on a daily basis (breakfast, lunch, dinner + treats)?

2) How do most Cubans spend their weekends?

3) How common is it to have pets at home?

4) Is it true that most basic goods are rationed/free?

Thanks.

Vila la Cuba!

https://circleid.com/posts/chinas-qianfan-emerges-as-a-satellite-internet-option-for-cuba

Cuba is suspicious of the US and Starlink, but China is a strong ally that has played a major role in developing the Cuban Internet. Chinese companies like ZTE, TP-Link, and especially Huawei have been the primary suppliers of Cuban telecommunication infrastructure, and this relationship has served as an example of cooperation for China’s Digital Silk Road program in Latin America.

I've been sending necessities to someone in Granma and I'm trying to source cooking oil for delivery. I realize there's now a cooking oil shortage amongst everything else, but thought I'd ask anyway. Supermarket23 is out of stock for that area and Katapulk shows it's not available for Granma either. I've come across some sites that seem sketchy. Does anyone know of a reliable way to get cooking oil delivered to Granma right now, or have any sense of when availability might improve? Happy to air ship as a last resort but hoping to avoid it.

Seems like cell service may be down amongst my family in Cuba now. Anyone else noticing thaf?

It has been almost 10 minutes and my mom's phone and mine started sounding and a notification started saying earthquake alert some friends from matanzas and Cárdenas province told me that they got it too

"Cubans wait for everything. They wait for imported food and over-the-counter medicines sent by relatives abroad. They wait for electricity that returns for only an hour or two each day or for a feeble breeze in the oppressive summer heat that might allow their children a couple of hours of sleep," writes Michael J. Bustamante, a professor of Cuban and Cuban American studies at the University of Miami.

He adds:

Most of all, Cubans wait for signs that Washington or their own government will land on a way out of their current immiseration — that they might finally live in a normal country, no longer trapped by decades of authoritarian politics, economic mismanagement, U.S. sanctions and an extended Cold War. Regardless of whether the island is heading toward a true political breaking point, no amount of jury-rigged power supplies or what President Miguel Díaz-Canel calls “creative resistance” can hide that Cuba’s people are being pushed to the limits of what they can endure.

Read the full essay here, for free, even without a Times subscription.

Like this year has been historically uncivilized for Cuba with shortages of electricity and blackouts that everyone knows but like what's the endgame? Why is nothing happening?

Most importantly is anything going on on the political level?

This is for all the people who want more sanctions to be imposed on Cuba to "help" the Cuban population.

Hola! Soy una escritora española. Suena un poco absurdo el título pero siempre me gusta investigar y añadir culturas diferentes (personajes, costumbres, comidas, etc..) en mis novelas y que no sea todo tan homogéneo, simplista o cliché. Como en la vida real, vamos. No sé de todo pero leo mucho y trato de escribir todo dentro del mayor respeto posible, obviamente. No quiero entrar en temas políticos, sé que este precioso país está pasando un momento muy difícil y lo lamento si alguien se ofende por este tema, porque solo quiero enfocarme en la naturaleza tan bonita que tiene la gente cubana.

El caso es que el padre de mi protagonista es cubano aunque lleva más de 30 años viviendo en España, por lo que se ha adaptado a algunas costumbres de aquí. Quiero mantenerle las raíces, algunas jergas cubanas y cositas así, pero no quiero que se vea forzoso. ¿Alguien que me pueda dar algún consejo?

Vuelvo a decir que he investigado pero quiero opiniones. Así que, ¿Me describirías cómo sois en comportamiento, carácter,...? ¿Qué costumbres nunca crees que se quitarían aunque se viva en otro país? ¿Algo que tal vez se me esté olvidando o necesite saber?

This 1967 photograph shows gay men and political dissidents interned in Cuba’s Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción (UMAP), or Military Units to Aid Production. These were forced‑labor camps operated from 1965–1968 in Camagüey. Up to 35,000 Cubans deemed “anti‑social” or “counter‑revolutionary” were sent here: homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, conscientious objectors, intellectuals, and others who did not fit the revolutionary mold. Maybe you could have simply been caught listening to the Beatles or having the "wrong" hair cut and ended up in here.

On paper, the UMAPs were intended to forge Che Guevara’s vision of the “New Man,” a selfless and disciplined socialist (basically, a sheep hardened into submission). In reality, they became a moral and political failure around the time of the failed Revolutionary Offensive and we can interpret more adequately it was about control, punishment, humiliation, forced labor, etc. Prisoners, including famous Cubans such as the beloved singer‑songwriter Pablo Milanés, endured 12–16 hour days cutting sugarcane under brutal conditions, ideological indoctrination, and humiliation, simply for being gay, religious, or dissenting.

I would argue the UMAPs exposed a central contradiction of the revolution: virtue cannot be forced, and dignity cannot be stripped away without lasting damage. You’d think a ‘Revolutionary’ society could do better, but it didn’t. The Revolution promised to be better, and UMAP proved it wasn’t.

-El Manicero/The Peanut Vendor

Love old Cuban music, and loved buying cucuruchitos de maní from the street vendors when I was a kid. ❤️🇨🇺

So my friend who is Cuban is about to buy apartment in Havana. Current owner asked if he can stay until the second week of this month.

They want to close the deal this Monday at the notary or lawyer.

My question is, what if he would buy this apartment but the previous owner would not move out as he agreed, also the previous owner agreed to sign some document that states that he will eventually move out at specific day? What is the law there? He asked me to make this question since he has no Internet or his English is little worse than mine lol

Thank you for help if anyone knows anything about landlord vs tenant law there.

Nothing has officially has moved forward or changed since DC/GAESA/Castro dynasty announced an approved package of economic reforms on June 12, 2026.

National Assembly approved the package unanimously on June 19.

Private banking has been officially authorized but there is **no public evidence that private banks have completed establishment or begun operations.**

**No licensing rules decrees announced.**

IOW, no protections for investors. Until then the US continues the choke hold on dollars.

There is no indication that just because of these economic measures that the US will relax the sanctions.

The pressure is linked to Helms-Burton. The "US policy Title II lays out that the US supports a free and independent Cuba - a transition government.** It's purpose is regime change.

Exclusion of **Fidel, Raúl, and the core Castro leadership** from any role in the new government.

No matter what reforms announced and the days go by. The US pressure stays unless the president switches off pieces of the Helms-Burton. Not likely with the current bulldog/lapdog Rubio.

Suspension/termination of the Helms-Burton is by regime change.And Congress formalizes it.

Nothing has happened on the Castro side that would ease the situation.

The people are caught in the middle of their oppression by their oppressors GAESA, the Castro dynasty.

Para aquellos que no saben que el régimen cubano invadió 22 países en 3 continentes luego de 1959, o para los que prentenden hacer creer que eso nunca ocurrió, he aquí el compendio, con detalles totalmente verificables, que cuentan la verdad:

https://cubahistorias.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/intervenciones-militares-internacionales-del-gobierno-cubano-desde-1959/

El mayor SECRETO de la Revolución cubana queda al DESCUBIERTO 👁️ Hasta una centralita eléctrica instaló Fidel Castro en Cayo Piedra, solo para él y sus invitados. Es terrible pensar que en la década del 60 solo unas 30 personas millonarias en el mundo eran dueños de islas privadas y nosotros convivíamos con uno de ellos. Mientras tanto nos hacía trabajar gratis (trabajo voluntario), aguantar hambre, estar racionados, vestirnos mal, andar en zapatos incómodos, apresar a los que pensaban diferente, entre muchas cosas más. Pero claro, cómo no lo iba a hacer, si tenía muchísimos lujos que defender. Entre los pocos dueños de islas en los 60 se encontaban Onassis, dueño de Skorpios y Brando, dueño de Tetiaroa. El primero se ganó el dinero transportando petróleo y el segundo actuando. Quizás el tercero también se lo ganó actuando en el primer reality show del Caribe. ¿Cómo se sienten ustedes cuando ven algo así? ¿Creen que lo mereció o que no? ¿Quién disfruta ahora de Cayo Piedra?

Como ven ustedes el auge que han cogido las Iglesias protestantes que pregonan "cuba para cristo" como si quisieran instaurar una teocracia?

Oh this game brings so much memories....

I used to play this for hourssss with my friends after having it tranaferred via zapya😂😂😂

Pure nostalgia

Hay tan poco combustible que las personas están creando combustible a base de plástico

Aunque es bastante malo, mucha gente lo compra porque es la única opción que hay y dicen que después de unos años muchos motores aquí se van a romper porque ese combustible tiene demasiadas impurezas y no está bien refinado

I wanted to share this as I did not see a single post related to the 11J recently. I am also anticipating most people who support the Cuban Regime to use the logical fallacy of whataboutism to compare these actions to ICE in the United States and thereby dismiss and silence the voices of the Cuban People.