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Cuba
Rare protests break out in Cuba amid electricity and food shortages
...“In the midst of a blockade that aims to suffocate us, we will continue working peacefully to get out of this situation,” posted Díaz-Canel, who in 2021 succeeded Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl as leader....
March 18, 2024
Special ReportInvesting in Peru
Deep divide persists between ‘two Perus’
...Castro....
October 20, 2023
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Cuba
Cuba emphasises continuity as it exits the Castro era
...Raúl Castro has been effectively running the country since his ailing brother Fidel handed power to him in 2006. Fidel Castro died in 2016....
April 19, 2021
Cuba
Exit of Cuba’s last Castro brings curtain down on revolutionary era
...Díaz-Canel’s approach was “in line with Raúl Castro’s strategy of maintaining tight political control while making difficult economic changes,” he said....
April 9, 2021
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The perils of leaving Cuba out in the cold
...It should be a historic opportunity for detente: for the first time in over 60 years, Cuba is no longer run by a Castro....
May 2, 2021
The Big Read
‘There is no food, money or work’: how shortages fuelled Cuba protests
...His brother Raúl retired as de facto ruler in April and in June turned 90. It fell to Miguel Díaz-Canel, a party bureaucrat lacking any revolutionary pedigree, to respond....
July 16, 2021
FT Live
Brazil Summit
Building a resilient and sustainable economy
Wednesday, 15 MayNew York, NY, USA
Cuba
Biden calls on Cuban government to listen to protesters
...In April, Raúl Castro stepped down as head of the communist party at the age of 89, the first time since the 1959 revolution, led by his brother Fidel, that a Castro had not been in charge....
July 12, 2021
News in-depthCuba
Cuba regime ‘backed into corner’ by shortages, protests and US embargo
...Since taking over as president in 2019 and succeeding Raúl Castro as leader of the Communist Party of Cuba in April this year, Díaz-Canel has tried to replace the remaining octogenarian revolutionaries,...
August 8, 2021
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(FT) Raúl Castro expected to cede power in Cuba Cuba’s last Castro is set to leave the political stage on Friday when Fidel’s 89-year-old brother Raúl is expected to cede power to a younger generation in...
April 16, 2021
News in-depthPeru
Peru’s leftwing presidential candidate rattles its business elite
...The party’s founder, Vladimir Cerrón, names Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Fidel and Raúl Castro in Cuba among a select “group of presidents who gave the continent...
May 6, 2021
News in-depthCuba
Biden rapprochement with Cuba faces difficult hurdles
...“More innocent Cubans will pay the price if we return to a one-sided Cuba policy — and throw a lifeline to Raúl Castro’s dictatorial regime.”...
January 18, 2021
News in-depthCuba
Dissident rappers trigger lyrical battle for Cuban hearts and minds
...It is one of communist Cuba’s most hallowed slogans, deployed by Fidel Castro in the 1959 revolution and repeated countless times since: “Patria o Muerte” — Fatherland or Death....
March 5, 2021
Americas politics & policy
Artists and activists stage rare rights protest in Cuba
...In it, he hurled angry insults at the officer, cursed Communist party leader Raúl Castro and proclaimed support for US president Donald Trump....
November 28, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(FT) Cuba’s last Castro prepares to retire As Fidel’s 89-year-old brother Raúl prepares to leave the political stage, Cuba finds itself besieged by the coronavirus pandemic, US sanctions, chronic shortages...
April 9, 2021
The Week Ahead
England’s lockdown eases, US bank results, retail data
...Cuba’s last Castro is set to leave the political stage on Friday when Fidel’s 89-year-old brother Raúl is expected to cede power to a younger generation at the start of the country’s Communist party congress...
April 11, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Cuba
Struggling Cuba plans ‘big bang’ currency devaluation
...Mr Díaz-Canel, flanked by Communist party leader Raúl Castro during a brief televised appearance, cautioned that the measure was not a magic bullet that would solve the country’s economic problems, but would...
December 11, 2020
Cuba
Russia fills the void in Cuba left by tougher US embargo
...It signalled the readiness of Raúl Castro, then Cuba’s president, to move on from the most bitter moments of the conflict with the US....
January 1, 2020
Cuba
Cuba faces blackouts as US sanctions hit fuel supplies
...Mr Díaz-Canel took office 18 months ago and has filled the leadership vacuum left after his 88-year-old predecessor Raúl Castro stepped down....
September 12, 2019
FT SeriesFrieze Week 2019
The art behind Cuban propaganda
...Some, including René Portocarrero and Raúl Martínez González, were artists with well-established careers. At its peak, the organisation employed around 20 illustrators, mostly men....
September 26, 2019
Life & Arts
Havana Diary: ‘We can’t kiss but we can dance’
...She called Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother, and is said to have told him: “If they touch my boys, I leave.”...
November 2, 2018
The Week Ahead
UK bank results, Walmart reports, Cuba constitution
...There will be an age limit (compared to Raúl Castro’s 86 years when he stepped down last year). It will also formally allow property to be privately owned....
February 17, 2019
FT Magazine
Poverty, priests and politics: why Peronism is back in Argentina
...At the core of Latin American populism, he says (also seen in the rhetoric of other leaders such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez), is an idea that “the poor are the custodians of a pure...
October 10, 2019
Google LLC
Google strikes deal to bring faster web content to Cuba
...Eric Schmidt, Google’s former chief executive, first visited Cuba shortly before the then US president Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raúl Castro announced the beginning of a process of detente that...
March 28, 2019
ExplainerAmericas economy
How Cuba has fared under the Castros
...Raúl Castro, 86, stood down as president of Cuba and was replaced by Miguel Díaz-Canel, 57, the vice-president....
April 19, 2018
World37 sec
Miguel Díaz-Canel sworn in as new Cuban president
...Miguel Díaz-Canel has been chosen to lead Cuba after nearly 60 years of rule by the Castro brothers...
April 20, 2018

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