Beyond the final score, the real problem was an alarming offensive drought: just two hits in the entire game. In a tournament of this caliber, with high-level pitchers and razor-thin margins, that lack of production is a recipe for defeat.
Mayli Estévez
Cuba’s debut in the 2026 World Baseball Classic will take place on March 6, and the setting is as appealing as it is complex.
We present a list of hotels closed in Cuba due to the 2026 energy contingency and also the airlines modifying their flights.
Víctor C., a Cuban coach in Caracas, woke up on January 3 with his heart in his throat. “We got a big scare, but we’re okay.”
On the night of December 8 and the early morning of December 9, 2025, Cuba experienced a new wave of protests and pot-banging demonstrations triggered by prolonged blackouts, amid a worsening energy collapse and growing desperation.
The announcement made on November 13, 2025, regarding the discussion of the Government Program to reinvigorate the Cuban economy — within the structures of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and other social organizations, between November and December — indirectly but unmistakably confirms that there will be no official floating exchange rate before the end of the year.
Facing a liquidity crisis and a growing loss of financial credibility, the Cuban government has launched a new strategy to attract fresh foreign currency: granting greater autonomy to foreign companies in the tourism sector.
Keys to understanding the new wave of foreign currency demand.
As the country dollarizes its economy, citizens improvise, adapt, and survive, aware that each liter purchased or each empty tank left behind is a reminder of the distance between official rhetoric and real life.
Oscar Perez-Oliva Fraga, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, informed government media on September 7, 2025, that the island’s banks will integrate into the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). The system is designed by China as an alternative to SWIFT for conducting international payments in Chinese yuan, and that the use of this currency will increase in transactions between the two nations.
This story explores how Cuba’s state-run taxi company, faced with a crumbling fleet and economic crisis, increasingly relies on private drivers. Through voices like Alex’s, it shows the opportunities and burdens of a hybrid system where drivers shoulder costs and risks, while the State still comes out on top.
Yipsi Moreno’s story is a gem.
The former commissioner, former parliamentarian, former national idol — and, more recently, former exclusive citizen of the island — has returned to world competition in the hammer throw at age 44, with a new flag in hand and as if time only weighs on mortals.
Two events this past week pointed to the deteriorating (economically speaking) state of sports and athletes in Cuba. A situation that is not new, but that repeats itself year after year without a medium or short-term solution.
Ayumi Leiva has dozens of reasons to feel proud of this title after, in August 2022, at just 19 years old, she fled a Cuban sports delegation at Madrid airport and sought asylum from the passport control police.
When the Camagüey-born boxer Julio Cesar La Cruz fell to the Cuban-Azerbaijani Loren Alfonso, more than one of the cheap pro-government patriots that swarm on social media tore their clothes in outrage and once again labeled as robbery what was very clear in the ring.