CubaCurious is a weekly news mashup from the Cuban underground—stuff state-controlled media doesn't cover. I translate and compile stories from respected Spanish-language sources that reveal the hidden Cuba, the one average Cubans live.
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Our sovereign nation should be respected, yours not so much.
Cuba’s hand-picked leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, directly criticized Trump for the first time in months after the president’s remarks at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday. Photo: ElDiario.ES / DiariodeCuba.com
25 de septiembre de 2026
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Harvard study holds Cuban leader responsible for crisis, calls for urgent peaceful, democratic transition & reforms.
“Cubans do not simply aspire to make Castroism more efficient. We aspire that Cuba will stop being a dictatorship and become a nation of free citizens again.” From 14ymedio op-ed by Jorge Luis León.
18 de septiembre 2026
Hola y welcome ba...
It’s good to be the king.
Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, known as Raulito or el Cangrego, The Crab. Photo from Cubanet.org 8 Sept. article.
11 septiembre 2026
Hola y welcome back to CubaCurious.
On the 25th anniversary of 9-11, I’ve been remembering the 2,977 i...
Cuban schools open with 27% teacher shortage, but shock troops, indoctrination abound.
(For actual video link see in UNO below.) Students are comforted on first day of school as special forces demonstrate hand-to-hand combat. Screen shot of video posted by exiled opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer on Facebook.
4 de septiem...
In Cuba, citizen control is the name of the game.
The regime has given indie journalist Austin Llerandi two months to leave the country—or go to jail.
28 de agosto 2026
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In a one-hour interview with a Brazilian reporter this we...
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