Cuba Chat

In #cuba half the room writes from the island and half from abroad — Miami, Madrid, Mexico City, Barcelona. That split is what defines the place, and it is why the common search is «chat cubano» rather than the country name: it covers both. Alongside the main room there are channels for Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Camagüey and Holguín.

Connectivity matters here more than anywhere else on the site. People in Cuba often join on mobile data counted by the megabyte, so the point of IRC is not nostalgia: it uses very little bandwidth and holds up on a weak signal. The page loads without video, autoplay or heavy images, and the room keeps working long after a video call would have dropped. If it cuts out, you rejoin with the same nickname.

Cuba runs on UTC−5 and does shift its clocks in summer, leaving a steady six-hour gap with Spain and no gap at all with Miami — which is why island-to-Florida conversations are the ones that cross most often here. Talk covers the dollar rate, blackouts, baseball, music, and a steady stream of questions about remittances, queues and exit paperwork. Full list at Cuba rooms.