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According to Humanity & Inclusion, around one third of people with disabilities in Cuba have an intellectual disability. [1] Around 3.2% have a severe disability. [2] Recent numbers, in 2018, showed that there were 447,674 people with disabilities living in the country and 46.3 percent of this number were women.
December 4 – 2024 Cuba blackout: The entire national power grid affecting more than 10 million citizens fails after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant collapses again. [12] December 30 – Raul Ernesto Cruz, a Salvadoran national convicted for his role in the 1997 Cuba hotel bombings, is released after serving a 30-year prison sentence ...
On 17 March and 18 March 2024, blackouts alongside a poor harvest and food shortages [29] [6] [30] caused [7] [8] widespread protests primarily in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's second largest city, during which three people were arrested. [5] [31] Cuba accused the government of the United States of stirring up unrest, an accusation that the United ...
Photos and videos shared by the local radio station Radio Baracoa of El Jamal, a town nearby, show fallen trees, homes that lost roofs and some flooding. A short video shared by the official news ...
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said that his government is willing to engage with protesters after hundreds of Cubans partook in rare public protests at the weekend to decry worsening ...
As blackouts, food, fuel and labor shortages in Cuba grow more acute by the day, a trip to the Caribbean island has become a hard sell. Cuban government statistics tell the story: Earlier this ...
People with disabilities are more likely to be unemployed than non-disabled people. In Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, the employment rate of people with disabilities (44%) is slightly over half that for people without disabilities (75%). People with disabilities often do not receive needed health care. Half of ...
On 12 January 2021, then-U.S. President Donald Trump added Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, implementing a new series of economic sanctions on the country. [7] The government of Cuba had hoped that Joe Biden would remove Cuba from the list. However, Biden has entirely avoided the issue and, according to Cuban governmental sources ...