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14ymedio is an independent digital media outlet in Cuba. It was founded on May 21, 2014, [ 1 ] by the Cuban blogger and activist Yoani Sánchez and the Cuban journalist Reinaldo Escobar. [ 2 ] The project started with a group of 12 reporters.
14ymedio is Cuba's first independent digital news outlet, founded by blogger Yoani Sanchez in 2014. 14ymedio reports in real time on national and international events that may be relevant to those living in Cuba. Similarly, it seeks to inform those living outside Cuba about the situation on the island.
Juventud Rebelde, daily newspaper of Cuba's young communists. This is a list of newspapers in Cuba.Although the Cuban media is controlled by the Cuban People through the Cuban State apparatus, the national newspapers of Cuba are not directly published by the state, they are instead published by various Cuban political organizations with official approval.
Sánchez and Escobar traveled to Santiago de Cuba the weekend before the letter was released and spent several days there, meeting with Father Conrado. During the same visit they held a blogger meeting with young people there, and Sánchez put her Ortega y Gasset award in the sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre , where "the long arm of ...
On 12 January 2021, then-U.S. President Donald Trump added Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, implementing a new series of economic sanctions on the country. [7] The government of Cuba had hoped that Joe Biden would remove Cuba from the list. However, Biden has entirely avoided the issue and, according to Cuban governmental sources ...
On 17 March and 18 March 2024, blackouts alongside a poor harvest and food shortages [29] [6] [30] caused [7] [8] widespread protests primarily in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's second largest city, during which three people were arrested. [5] [31] Cuba accused the government of the United States of stirring up unrest, an accusation that the United ...
Granma is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. It was formed in 1965 by the merger of two previous papers, Revolución (from Spanish: "Revolution") and Hoy ("Today"). [1] Publication of the newspaper began in February 1966. [2]
In 2020, the economic situation in Cuba worsened. The Cuban economy contracted by 10.9% in 2020, and by 2% in the first six months of 2021. [11] The economic crises emerged from a combination of factors, [46] [47] including reduced financial support (subsidized fuel) from Cuba's ally Venezuela, the United States embargo against Cuba and United States sanctions (tightened by the Trump ...