English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
The company suspended trading of its shares after the inclusion of its Cuban partner in Minera La Victoria on the U.S. blacklist 14ymedio, Havana, June 5, 2026 — Australian mining company Antilles Gold requested the Sydney Stock Exchange on Friday to suspend trading of its shares while it prepares an announcement regarding the impact of … Continue reading “U.S. Sanctions Reach Cuban Gold and Australia’s Antilles Gold”
14ymedio, Madrid, 4 October 2023 — More than 60 people have been tried in Ciego de Ávila since February of this year for crimes related to the illegal extraction of gold. A much lower number than in 2021, when 300 individuals were forced to pay fines and other penalties, in addition to the confiscation of … Continue reading “More Than 60 Cubans Have Been Tried for Illegal Gold Mining in Ciego De Avila This Year”
Óscar Pérez-Oliva accuses the U.S. of maneuvering to displace foreign companies established on the Island and impose its own. 14ymedio, Madrid, September 29, 2026 – Cuban Vice Prime Minister Óscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga denied in an interview with Reuters published Tuesday that businesspeople linked to U.S. President Donald Trump had met with Cuban officials this year … Continue reading “Cuba’s Economy Minister Denies Contacts Between Trump Companies and the Cuban Government”
The British newspaper says executives from the U.S. president’s companies have met with Raúl Castro’s grandson. 14ymedio, Madrid, September 18, 2026 – Several executives from the Trump Organization have traveled to the Island several times in recent months, where they have held meetings with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, alias El Cangrejo, grandson of Raúl Castro, … Continue reading “The Guardian Criticizes Trump’s Circle and Exiles for Pursuing “Opportunities” if the Regime Falls”
The military conglomerate has also divested itself of the joint venture that managed the Miramar Business Center in Havana. 14ymedio, Madrid, June 28, 2026 — Terminal de Contenedores Mariel S.A. (TCM), owned by the military conglomerate Gaesa and operator of Cuba’s main commercial port, has transferred its assets to Coral Marítima S.A., a state company … Continue reading “Gaesa Transfers Its Assets in Mariel to Another State Company to Evade U.S. Sanctions”
Businessman William Pitt fears the consequences for the natural gas production that the Canadian company manages and supplies to the population of Havana. 14ymedio, Madrid, 18 February 2025 — “It was written in the clouds!” For businessman William Pitt, the suspension of Sherritt’s operations at the Moa mines in Holguín, due to a lack of … Continue reading ““Sherritt Put All Its Hopes in Cuba and Has Lost Everything in Cuba””
14ymedio, Havana, October 18, 2024 — The origin of the current economic crisis in Cuba has its roots in 2016, and the country received a mortar blow in 2019, the prelude to the pandemic. This year it has bottomed out. The Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture has written a report that … Continue reading “A US Report Illustrates the Magnitude of the Economic and Social Crisis in Cuba”
Expert William Pitt, owner of confiscated mines on the Island, points out that companies are reducing their investments 14ymedio, Havana, 12 April 2024 — In a video showing a fleet of trucks, backhoes and machinery, the director of Mining in Cuba, Joaquín Ruiz Quintana, said on Wednesday that Cuba plans to export 50,000 tons of … Continue reading “The Fall in the Price of Nickel Contradicts the Optimism of the Cuban Government”
14ymedio, Havana, 12 April 2024 — “Here, I am valued as an athlete; in Cuba I had no opportunities.” This is what the triple jumper Jordan Díaz Fortún (“Air Jordan”) said about his departure from the Island in 2021, in an interview published this Friday by El Español. The athlete hopes, next June, to have … Continue reading “Cuban Jordan Diaz Waits for Permission to Compete for Spain in Paris 2024”
14ymedio, Frank Sánchez Madrigal, Sevilla, 15 August 2021 — In these eventful days for the beleaguered Cuban people, I have listened with emotion and pride to the use of the most helpful words in our daily tropical routine: ‘pinga’ and ‘singao’. Although ‘singao‘ takes all the medals, let’s not underestimate the Cuban ‘pinga‘. When someone … Continue reading “The Cuban ‘Pinga’”
14ymedio, José Conrado Rodríguez Alegre, Trinidad, Cuba, 24 May 2020 — When the Covid-19 pandemic was declared in Cuba, it was precisely in the city of Trinidad, where I lived and worked as a Catholic priest for just over seven years, where the epidemic began: three Italian tourists and one North American were the first … Continue reading “What The Covid-19 Pandemic Has Taught Me”
14ymedio, Havana, 14 June 2018 — In his speech this Friday during the inauguration of the Cuban Sports Hall, President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke of the exodus of several of the best athletes in the country and attributed it to the “subversive provocation that imperialism tries to impose” with the intention of seeking a “loss of … Continue reading “Diaz-Canel Blames Athlete Exodus on the "Subversive Provocation of Imperialism"”
Juan Juan Almeida, 13 December 2017 — Time is an indelible and important imprint in any perspective. It is true that Cuba continues to be a country governed by a group incapable of coexisting with the opposition, beating down those who think differently, a criminal state that encourages the rupture of democracy and legality. It is also … Continue reading “The Magnified Danger to Castroism / Juan Juan Almeida”
Ivan Garcia, 7 August 2016 — A couple of months ago under a frightening morning sun, the team of Cuban athletes who will compete in the next Olympic Games were training on the deteriorated synthetic track of the Pan American Stadium, east of Havana, under the watchful eye of a dozen trainers, with stopwatches around … Continue reading “Cuba in Rio 2016: A Forecast / Iván García”
MantleThought.org, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, 18 March 2015 — The U.S. embargo against the Cuban government is like those recurrent childhood nightmares, for both Cubans living on the Island and abroad. Oh, the Embargo Embargo: limit of our life, fire of our leaders… During decadent decades the Cuban Revolution has been defined by that urge … Continue reading “NO EMBARGO, NO CRY / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”