Cuba

Castro's Cuba since 1959: the revolution, executions and political prisoners, the exodus by sea, and one-party rule that continues today.

• Cuba's Healthcare: The Showcase and the Evidence

  Cuba's doctors and infant mortality figures are the regime's pride. What researchers, UNICEF and Human Rights Watch have found behind them.

• Leaving Cuba: How Castro's State Controlled Who Could Go

  For decades Cubans needed the state's permission to leave their own country. The exit permit ended in 2013 — but passport denials and travel bans did not.

• Cuba's Exodus: Six Decades of Refugee Waves

  From the first exiles of 1959 to Mariel, the 1994 rafters and the record exodus of 2022–23: how and why millions of Cubans have fled Castro's revolution.

• Cuba's Special Period: The Crisis After the Soviet Collapse

  When Soviet support vanished, Cuba's economy shrank by a third and daily calories fell from 2,899 to 1,863: the 'Special Period' of the 1990s.

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