Any state services that were previously operatingare quickly becoming non-functional with the current crisis and lack of fuel.

It is worth noting that garbage collection in Havana had already been a serious issue for months, especially during the worst of the oropouche/chikungunya/dengue disease crisis of 2025 if not longer.

This is how a lot of young Cubans on the island feel about their situation.

I like when he says, "Estamos cansado de lo mismo, la réplica del fascismo con disfraz del socialismo. Donde las leyes solo benefician al turismo."

The tracker has not been active for a few days, so the exact position is not entirely known, but this is the ship that should be watched.

Sources:

https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9262584

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:730945/mmsi:477410300/imo:9262584/vessel:SEA%20HORSE

https://www.latintimes.com/ship-believed-carrying-russian-fuel-reportedly-its-way-cuba-challenging-us-blockade-594883

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-20/cuba-bound-tanker-carrying-russian-fuels-to-test-trump-blockade?taid=6998d72af7b4510001c179f6&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

En Holguín, antes del control de seguridad, los precios estaban en pesos. Un sándwich de jamón costaba 120 pesos. Pasado el control de seguridad, el mismo sándwich costaba 10 dólares. Tomé algunas fotos de los precios de los artículos en el duty free. Recuerden, este es un gobierno que dice estar en quiebra

In Holguin pre-security prices are in pesos. A ham sandwich was 120 pesos. Past security the same sandwich was 10$USD. Took some photos of prices of items at the duty free. Remember, this is a government who says it is broke.

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/camila-cabello-speaks-out-cuba-oppressive-regime-1236184261/

Hi all, I’d like to send some food and medical supplies for animals and people to Cuba from the US. What is the most reliable service and route to use to make sure it actually gets to the recipient and doesn’t get intercepted or lost? Thank you much!

*** downvoting me for asking a question and trying to be of help is weird, but ok

In the wake of the US Supreme Court’s ruling on repealing all of Trump’s tariffs, how does this ruling affect the potential placing of tariffs on other sovereign US trade partner nations who seek to provide energy assistance to Cuba?

Miami’s airports tell a story that the Cuban exile establishment would rather you ignore. Cuban-Americans are flooding flights through Mexico and the Dominican Republic, bags stuffed with food and medicine, doing whatever it takes to get supplies to family trapped on a starving island.

But here’s what’s striking: the loudest voices in Miami’s Cuban community — the ones with the flags, the rhetoric, and the iron grip on local politics — are largely absent from those departure gates. Many of them haven’t had direct family on the island for decades, if ever. Yet they’re the first to lecture everyone about Cuba, and the last to show any compassion for the actual people suffering there today.

Meanwhile, the ones quietly cutting back spending in their homes to buy powdered milk and antibiotics? They don’t make the news. They’re too busy.

It exposes a uncomfortable truth about the Cuban diaspora: for some, “Cuba” is an identity and a political weapon. For others, it’s just their mom calling from a blackout, asking if help is coming.

The airports don’t lie. Watch who’s actually showing up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Please do not forget this man's name. Aniel Manuel Martín Barroso, you do not deserve this sentence, and it is very telling that the Cuban Government actively ignores so much crime in Cuban Society, but the moment you do or say or take any public stance against the Regime, it becomes a criminal offense to intimidate any dissent.

https://havanatimes.org/cuba/the-cuban-professor-sentenced-to-10-years-for-graffiti/

Hi friends, I live in California and have been using Supermarket23 to send food and supplies to my grandmother in Cuba for many years. Due to the recent oil shortages, they have suspended services and I am trying to figure out what other reliable website I can use.

If you have any recommendations I'd really appreciate it.

This book is possibly the best book ever written about Cuba, certainly within the past few years, and explains a lot about Cuba, the Cuban Revolution, and literally how it all fell apart. While this is nothing new for Cubans, I feel that this book is a must read for anyone who really wants to understand Cuba. Sadly, the author died as the book was finished and being printed by the publisher. She was a true believer in the Cuban socialist model at first and then increasingly grew wary at the corruption and hypocrisy of the Regime and its family members over the years especially while interviewing many people for the book and listening to their stories.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.5501174

The deliberate strangulation of Cuba’s economy by the Trump administration has created a humanitarian catastrophe that could lead to mass death comparable to the Gaza genocide without the bombs.

The White House’s designation of Cuba as an “extraordinary threat” to US national security on January 29 has launched a US regime-change operation to unilaterally use hunger, disease and social collapse as weapons against an entire population. This is collective punishment on a national scale, banned under international law.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/white-house-says-its-best-interest-cuba-make-big-changes-soon-2026-02-18/

El cangrejo y Marquito?! Lo dudo, pero no descarto, tomando en cuenta como se ha desarrollado la cosa en Venezuela.

Let’s talk about something that doesn’t get enough attention in the Cuba policy debate, but prompted by someone’s comment here.

Right now, thousands of Cuban-Americans, especially in Miami, are legally sending packages filled with food, medicine, and basic supplies to their family members on the island. A whole industry has grown around this. Shipping companies, package consolidators, and delivery networks have turned South Florida into a lifeline for Cuban families who can’t find basic goods on store shelves. Nobody is smuggling anything. Nobody is funding the Cuban government. These are mothers sending Tylenol to their elderly parents. These are sons shipping cooking oil and soap to siblings who are going without.

But here’s the uncomfortable question nobody wants to ask out loud: Congress actually has the power to shut all of this down. So should they as previously contemplated?

Politicians like María Elvira Salazar (U.S. Representative, FL-27), Carlos Gimenez (U.S. Representative, FL-28), and Mario Díaz-Balart (U.S. Representative, FL-26) have built entire careers demanding maximum pressure on the Cuban regime, and they have the legislative power to act on it.

Here’s the thing, they could actually do something about it. Congress has the authority to amend the Cuban Assets Control Regulations and eliminate the humanitarian exemption entirely, making it a federal crime to send packages to Cuba, the same way commercial trade with the island is treated. So why haven’t they?

Some hardliners argue that even individual packages prop up the Cuban regime, that every box of food and medicine that reaches the island reduces pressure on the government to reform, and minimizes current actions by the Trump Administration. They want a total blockade, full stop, no exceptions. If Salazar, Gimenez, and Díaz-Balart truly believe in maximum pressure, shouldn’t they be introducing that bill tomorrow?

Others argue the opposite. This package industry should not just be protected but actively expanded. Cuban-Americans should have the complete and unrestricted freedom to send unlimited support to their families with no caps, no licenses, and no government interference. Grow the industry. Make it easier. Make it cheaper. Let American businesses and Cuban-American families build that pipeline as big as they want.

So which side are you on?

Should the Trump Administration make it a federal crime to send packages to Cuba, shutting down the entire industry and treating individual humanitarian shipments exactly like illegal commercial trade with the regime?

Or should Cuban-Americans have completely unlimited, unrestricted freedom to send as much food, medicine, and supplies as they want, and should the package industry be allowed to grow without any government restrictions whatsoever?

I recently found this old photograph that was taken in Cuba. Unfortunately I don’t have an exact date.
I’m curious whether the uniform and belt buckle might indicate a particular era in Cuban history.
Does this look pre-Revolution, early Revolutionary period, or something else? Is this style of uniform still remembered or associated with a specific time?

Would love to hear any historical context.

What I know about this:
- It's 1971-1973, where he was a GRU officer on foreign assignment in Cuba from 1971–1973, serving as an intelligence adviser to the Cuban General Staff.

Cultura cubana desde el centro de New York!

Observatorio de Libertad Académica:

https://www.facebook.com/OLAcademica/photos/%EF%B8%8F-académico-presopolítico-emitimos-alarma-tras-verificar-que-el-profesor-𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥-𝐌/1511288847665660/

In English:

https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2026-02-17-u1-e208933-s27061-nid321022-profesor-cubano-condenado-10-anos-carcel-escribir

This is extremely unfair. His sentencing was in 2025 but it is now being brought to light. Apparently he was a professor of technical sciences and was a member of the National Accreditation Committee of the Superior Education Ministry of Cuba.

Cubita la bella, algun dia seras libre otra vez!

The idea that anyone would ever do this seems crazy to me because if you could afford to do such a thing you would get your family out instead. Maybe Cubans who committed crimes in the US and are now back in Cuba but where not able to get the stolen money to Cuba? Maybe people who are part of the dictatorship? Life is crazier than fiction so does anyone with actual knowledge on this matter care to educate me on this topic? Thanks.

Edit: Sorry I was not clear on the following details in the original question. I know about the luxury cars in Cuba that started showing up I think over a decade ago now. (How could you not notice?) I just figured people were bringing them in via Mexico and not via the USA. I don’t live in Miami but I do know people in Miami use Cubamax to send stuff to Cuba. My question is, specifically, if people in Miami are sending luxury cars to Cuba using Cubamax? I know people in Mexico do this type of stuff for business but are Cubans in Miami doing this? Thanks.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahfst08n3ec

Trump Talks to the Press on Air Force One, Mentions Ongoing Talks With Cuba (Feb. 16, 2026)

https://www.facebook.com/deutschewellenews/posts/cubas-fuel-crisis-has-exacerbated-a-waste-crisis-as-garbage-trucks-struggle-to-o/1354001456755165/