Sociedad Media covers Cuba’s unfolding crisis with original reporting from Miami—the city with the largest Cuban exile community in the world. From the island’s historic blackouts and consecutive nights of street protests, to U.S.-Cuba negotiations, Díaz-Canel’s future, and the energy collapse threatening the regime’s survival, we track every development in the story that defines Miami’s Cuban community like no other
Cuba’s longtime Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez looks to younger generation, but denies a humanitarian crisis while citing infant mortality more than doubling since 2018
Diario Las Américas reports Raúl Castro, 95, may have suffered a stroke, remains critical, intensifying unconfirmed rumors of his death — a familiar pattern for the Cuban leader — amid pause in negotiations with Washington
Díaz-Canel denies Cuba’s economic reforms represent any move toward capitalism, even as record protest levels, chronic infrastructure failures, and escalating U.S. sanctions all press in the opposite direction
Cuba records 68,051 births in 2025 against 136,214 deaths, its lowest birth count in decades. Demographers warn the population could shrink to as low as 5.6 million as crises continue
Cuba’s Díaz-Canel compares U.S. officials to Nazis, accuses Washington of “genocide,” as blackouts stretch past 30 hours in Havana and U.S. pressure — sanctions, a new State Department report — continues to mount
Trump confirms from the Oval Office that the U.S. is investigating reports of 300 Iranian drones stored in Cuba — warning Washington will act “in short order” if confirmed
Trump administration designates 10 Cuban entities on July 13 — the sixth sanctions round since May 1 and the most direct targeting yet of the regime's domestic repression apparatus
Cuba’s national electric grid collapsed at midday Monday — the fourth total blackout of 2026 — leaving 10 million people without power as the island’s decades-old infrastructure deterioration converges with a U.S. fuel blockade
Trump administration sanctions Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, wife, stepson & two members of the Castro family — the third round of Cuba sanctions in under a month — as Rubio warns that more are coming “in the following days and weeks”
On Cuban Independence Day, the DOJ announces criminal charges against the 94-year-old former Cuban president at Miami’s Freedom Tower — the building where generations of Cuban exiles first set foot in America
