Havana

Cuba is next on Trump’s hit list

6 June 2026 9:00 am

It’s hot in Havana. The summer’s electrical storms have arrived, lighting up the sky, while down on the ground we’ve…

Inside blockaded Cuba, life is getting odder by the day

21 March 2026 9:00 am

It’s nearly two months since Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a total oil blockade on Cuba, and life…

Norman Lewis – a restless adventurer with a passion for broken-down places

11 January 2025 9:00 am

John Hatt’s latest selection of the travel writer’s journalism includes articles on Castro’s Havana, the Yemen of the Imams, Batista’s Cuba, French Indo-China and Neapolitan men of honour

The dark side of life in Cuba

2 November 2024 9:00 am

The first scent of trouble came when Cuba’s government ordered all its non-essential workers home. By packing them off (and…

How ever did the inbred Habsburgs control their vast empire?

16 March 2024 9:00 am

For centuries, a line of mentally retarded monarchs managed extraordinary feats of engineering across the world against all odds

Could street protests finally topple Cuba’s communist regime?

14 July 2021 8:33 am

Could the growing tide of protests finally topple Cuba’s communist government? Many Cubans are certainly angry: Sunday marked the largest-ever demonstration against…

When sharing isn’t fair

5 March 2016 9:00 am

In Silicon Valley, renting out is the new selling —and renting out stuff that belongs to other people can be…