Images after Hurricane Melissa expose Cuba’s descent into extreme poverty

Hurricane Melissa’s impact on eastern Cuba has exposed the country’s extreme poverty and the state of abandonment in remote ...
National Catholic Register

Priest: ‘Worst Poverty in Cuba Is the ‘Lack of Freedom’

Father Bladimir Navarro said that ‘the Cuban communist dictatorship is afraid of losing power. They have passed new laws to perpetuate their Marxist ideology.' A man passes by a wall with a Cuban flag ...
Green Left Weekly

Cuba: making poverty history

In recent years "making poverty history" has become the fashionable cause for ageing rock stars such as Bono and Sir Bob Geldof. As global poverty means that each year 9 million children die of ...
Washington Examiner

LatAm summit in Cuba focus on poverty, inequality

HAVANA (AP) — Leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean began arriving in Cuba on Sunday to talk about poverty and inequality at a summit of a fledgling regional bloc formed as a force for ...
Catholic News Agency

Priest says worst poverty in Cuba is ‘lack of freedom’

In a recent interview with the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need, Father Bladimir Navarro, who lives in Spain, said that “the people of Cuba are surviving and the worst poverty is the ...