Cubadebate
Cubadebate is a Cuban state-affiliated news website publishing in Spanish and other languages including English. It covers national and international news from a perspective aligned with the Cuban government, and is one of the island's prominent online news sources. The site frequently features official commentary alongside reporting on domestic and world affairs.
Cubadebate at a glance
- Country
- Cuba
- Region
- The Caribbean · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- News portal
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Website
- en.cubadebate.cu ↗
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How Crosswire groups Cubadebate
Crosswire groups Cubadebate as Left-leaning for comparisons within Cuba's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Cuba, 14ymedio is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Cubadebate beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Cubadebate sits in Cuba's press
Cubadebate is one of 4 outlets tracked in Cuba and the only news portal tracked there. By outlets tracked, Cuba ranks 23rd of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 7 of the 80 news portals in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Cubadebate outside Cuba, starting with The Caribbean, are Publinews (Guatemala), UOL (Brazil), Cooperativa (Chile) and Montevideo Portal (Uruguay). Opening one of them beside Cubadebate is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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