With U.S. doors shutting, Cubans turn to Brazil for asylum
For years, many Cubans hoping to leave the island looked to the United States. Now, with legal pathways largely closed, a growing number are heading t...
Our reporter Jack Nicas visits a sweltering Cuba where, six months into the Trump administration’s oil blockade, people struggle to sleep with no elec...
Cubans are inventing ways to survive without fuel or electricity, using solar panels, makeshift generators and batteries to endure a devastating oil b...
Guyana, a tiny, oil-rich, English-speaking South American country, has become a destination for Cubans fleeing desperate conditions. We traveled to th...
Lisette Poole González, a photographer for The New York Times, talks with Jack Nicas, The Times’s Mexico City bureau chief, about photographing Havana...
Cubans Cook With Charcoal and Wood Fires to Survive During Energy Crisis
The U.S. oil blockade has left millions without cooking gas. In Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of the Cuban revolution, apartment tower residents resort...
News of U.S. Indictment Slow to Reach Cubans Waiting for a Breakthrough
While many Cubans were divided over the legitimacy of the U.S. charging Raul Castro with murder, the hope for developments that might ease their suffe...
