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
In his first interview with a U.S. television network in decades, Cuba’s president told NBC’s Kristen Welker he would not resign. Outside the interview room, Cuba was experiencing its worst blackouts in history, its largest street protests since 2021, and a fuel blockade with no end in sight
Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Jonathan Jackson met with Díaz-Canel, toured hospitals, and called Trump’s blockade “economic bombing.” But will they be taken seriously by Cubans in Miami?
A second Russian oil tanker is heading to Cuba. It will buy the island days, not months. The harder question is what happens when the fuel runs out again
Disturbing images from Cuba’s largest zoo show skeletal lions lying on concrete floors, as the island’s economic collapse extends its reach to the most vulnerable captive animals
A Russian tanker docks in Cuba. The U.S. Embassy reopens in Caracas. Nearly 1,000 prisoners freed. And Rubio tells Al Jazeera exactly what Washington wants next
President Trump said Sunday he has “no problem” with a Russian tanker delivering 730,000 barrels of crude to Cuba, stating that the island’s population needs to survive—a humanitarian carve-out within a blockade that has caused repeated island-wide blackouts and a deepening civilian crisis
China has committed 90,000 tons of rice and $80 million to Cuba while Washington tightens its oil blockade. For the island’s 10 million residents, the great power competition arrives at the dinner table
Trump told a room full of investors at Miami Beach’s Faena Hotel that “Cuba is next.” Nobody pretended not to hear it. Here is what is happening on the island, in Washington, and behind closed doors between Havana and the White House
“Our military is always prepared, and, in fact, it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” — Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, March 22, 2026
Three blackouts in March. Two in five days. Cubans navigating Havana’s streets by phone light. An international aid convoy distributing solar panels in the dark. And two Russian oil tankers whose arrival nobody can confirm. This is Cuba on March 22, 2026