The priest noted that there are currently about 118 religious congregations in Cuba, mostly female, with around 700 sisters ...

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura poses for a portrait in the street in Havana, Cuba, April 10. Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, ...

MANGUITO, CUBA – The majority of Marcos Perez’s friends fled the country last year. Now, he and his family are pooling their money to do the same. “Only a few of my friends are left, the ones who lack ...

At 32, Conner Gorry left New York and moved to Havana for a job as a journalist. After living there for 20 years, she saw herself as an immigrant, rather than an expat. Since her return last year, ...

Since Fidel Castro ceded authority to his brother Raul in 2006, life in Cuba has slowly been changing. Young Cubans are more comfortable talking about their government and cellphones have begun to ...

Despite years of shortages in Cuba, and now more constant blackouts, Catholic sisters and priests are committed to remain with those suffering on the island. Since the collapse of the electrical ...

HAVANA — His novels recount gruesome murders, thefts, scams, bribes and humiliating secrets. But those are not even the most important themes in the stories told by award-winning Cuban writer Leonardo ...

Photography is a great medium for social documentation. Think of nineteenth-century French photographer Eugène Atget, who produced thousands of photographs of Paris with direct, novel, and poetic ...