Cuba Warns of Shortages for Subsidized Flour Amid Ailing Economy and Massive Exodus The Food Industry ministry said the production of bread will be "severely affected" Latin Times · Feb 26, 2024
'There Was Nothing': Ailing Economy Fueling Record Exodus Of Cubans Even as her home country of Cuba crumbled around her, Elsa resisted joining the growing US-bound exodus until she felt she had no options left. International Business Times · Jan 29, 2024
Cuban President Diaz-Canel expected to win second term despite crises Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is widely expected to be chosen this week by assembly lawmakers to lead the country for another five years, despite a rocky first term marked by the coronavirus pandemic and a near-unprecedented economic crisis. Reuters · Apr 17, 2023
More Cuban kids are showing up at the border without parents. Some are in South Florida Hundreds of unaccompanied Cuban children have shown up at the U.S.-Mexico border this past year, as more parents appear to be sending their kids away amid deteriorating conditions in Cuba that have already brought a record number of people from the island to the United States. Miami Herald · Sep 1, 2022
The biggest wave of Cuban migrants arriving in US since 1980 is driving policy changes About 115,000 Cubans — more than one percent of the island’s population — have left their homeland fleeing poverty and repression and reached the U.S. in the past seven months, a mass migration wave on a scale not seen in four decades that has prompted recent changes in U.S. policy… Miami Herald · May 26, 2022
More Cubans immigrating to the US by crossing from Mexico More immigrants from Cuba are coming to the U.S. by making their way to Mexico and crossing the border illegally The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022