Cuba

Granta names world’s best young Spanish-language writers

List celebrating authors under-35 includes Cubans for first time and more authors of colour

Sam Jones in Madrid

07, Apr, 2021 @6:47 PM

How Cuba's artists took to the kitchen to earn their crust in lockdown

As Covid pushed the island’s economy to the brink of collapse, musicians and film-makers found another way to be creative – cooking, baking and selling

Ruaridh Nicoll photographs by Sven Creutzmann

21, Feb, 2021 @1:00 PM

Three Cubans detained in Florida after surviving on coconuts on empty island

Three people in Ice custody after coast guard rescue following 33 days on uninhabited island of Anguilla Cay

Guardian staff and agency

11, Feb, 2021 @4:01 PM

Three rescued from desert island after surviving on coconuts, conchs and rats for 33 days

US coast guard finds two men and a woman who swam to Anguilla Cay after boat capsized

Jessica Glenza and agencies

11, Feb, 2021 @1:13 AM

Former Tory MP's posting as UK ambassador to Cuba raises fresh cronyism claims

Havana role usually taken by experienced diplomats goes to ex-trade minister George Hollingbery

Rajeev Syal

26, Jan, 2021 @8:08 PM

Paul Schatzberger obituary

Other lives: General practitioner who was also a talented photographer and musician

Lizzie Mussell

25, Jan, 2021 @7:11 PM

¡Populista! review: Chávez, Castro and Latin America's 'pink wave' leaders

BBC reporter Will Grant has produced an excellent look at the group of strongmen who came from left field

Carrie Gibson

09, Jan, 2021 @6:00 AM

Havana’s artists find their voice in a call to defend creative freedom

Fears over state curbs on live shows lead to hunger strike, arrests and street standoff with government

Ed Augustin

06, Dec, 2020 @7:30 AM

Sicily asks Cuba to send medics as Italy fights second Covid wave

Request made to embassy in Cuba as island struggles with shortage of doctors and nurses

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

25, Nov, 2020 @6:13 PM

Matt Dillon's still ready to rumble: 'I have never lived a sheltered life'

He’s played a teen tearaway, a racist cop, a conman and a serial killer. But can he play a cellist? The star talks about his role in Yorgos Lanthimos’s first film since The Favourite – and making a jazz documentary

Jonathan Romney

17, Nov, 2020 @6:00 AM