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
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
The lights came back on in parts of Cuba. Then the ground started shaking. Díaz-Canel vowed “impregnable resistance” as Trump warns he can do anything he wants
Washington has told Havana what it will cost to turn the lights back on: Díaz-Canel must go. Trump says he can do “anything he wants” with Cuba. And on Monday, the entire island went dark
Cuba went completely dark on Monday. Every light on the island went out simultaneously—the first total grid collapse since the U.S. oil blockade began. The pots will bang again tonight
The fires in Morón's Communist Party headquarters had barely been extinguished when the pots started banging in Havana. Cuba’s energy crisis has become a political uprising—and Trump says a deal is coming either way
Díaz-Canel stepped before cameras Friday and said what weeks of protests, secret diplomacy, and pot-banging in the dark had been pointing toward: Washington and Havana are talking. Officially. And Raúl Castro is at the table
Beijing approved $180 million in emergency aid and closed diplomatic ranks with Havana. But Cuba needs oil—and China hasn't committed to replacing Venezuela’s supply
Washington and Havana are negotiating in secret—and a deal that could end Cuba’s 67-year standoff, open the island to U.S. investment, and usher out Díaz-Canel may be only days away