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Cuba Resists: an Interview With Journalist Boris Luis Cabrera

Cabrera in Caracas in February, 2026, speaking with friends back home. Photo by Panchito Gonzalez.

Boris Luis Cabrera, 53, is a veteran Cuban journalist who writes in a style clearly influenced by the cinematic, new journalism of the 1970s. He covers a wide range of topics and, for the last 10 years, has worked as a sports reporter for the Cuban press agency, Prensa Latina. I met him in February, 2026, when I arrived home from working for TeleSur in Caracas, Venezuela, to discover that two more beds had been placed in the journalists apartment I was staying in in the city’s Chacao quarter. Cabrera was in town covering the Latin American and Caribbean baseball championship. Like the other Cubans staying there, I noticed him having constant conversations with friends and family back home, to stay up to date on the effects of the US government’s criminal attempt to starve the island nation, who’s government it has been trying to depose for 65 years. A few days after he arrived back home, I got in touch to find out how things were going. The following interview is a result of that conversation.

Brian Mier: Can you describe what a typical day is like in Cuba right now?

Boris Luis Cabrera: An average day in Cuba today is marked by concrete material tensions: scheduled blackouts due to energy deficits, difficulties in obtaining certain foods and medicine, and limited public transportation due to shortages of fuel and spare parts. These problems cannot be analyzed in isolation from the structural impact of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States, which limits access........

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