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Obama in Cuba

Barack Obama Seduces Cubans

Por Miriam Celaya

First, there was an accomplice rain that intensified as the presidential plane taxied down the runway after landing at the airport. The initial image that Cubans had of the president of the most ...

Society

Havana Hides its Beggers

Por Yosmany Mayeta Labrada

Fixing up the Latin American Stadium and repairing the streets where Barack Obama’s motorcade will travel are just a part of the preparations before the coming of the president of the United ...

Society

Cuban Middle Class Takes Over ‘Proletarian’ Neighborhoods

Por Lilianne Ruiz

“These buildings are earthquake resistant,” says the owner of an apartment for sale in a Havana neighborhood. The potential buyer listens incredulous, looking out from the balcony at other ...

Electricity

Cuba’s Energy Revolution is in a Tailspin

Por Luz Escobar

“Hurry! Get in! The patient is dying,” the driver warned the young man flagging him down at the corner of Calzada del Cerro. At the wheel was Carlos Alberto Valdes, a technician from the ...

Cuba-US Relations

Perhaps the most visible impact of the restoration of relations between the US and Cuba, begun a year ago today, is expressed in the hopes that it awoke in third countries. Governments, businesses ...

Elderly

Any Day Is A Bad Day To Die Alone

Por Orlando Palma

The National Funeral Home, nine at night. In one of the rooms only one person is found. A woman is rocking in the chair furthest from the coffin. She’s filing her nails. “Who was the deceased?” ...

Society

Santiago Hides Its Indigents

Por Yosmany Mayeta Labrada

The builders hurry to give the last touches to building projects, and the communal brigades obsessively clean the streets. A few days before the celebration of its fifth centennial, the city of ...

Employment

Making a Living From Trash

Por Victor Ariel González

They appear silently, without anyone taking notice, a little after dawn. They will not hide again until nightfall, when they return home or camp out in some corner of the city to count their ...

Society

Anticipated News of Another May Day

Por Reinaldo Escobar

Like all ritual ceremony, the parade for International Workers Day involves previous preparation and specific purposes. Along with 26th of July events and the Triumph of the Revolution’s ...

Society

Lowering the price of milk does not satisfy buyers

Por Rosa López

In Cuba it is cheaper to buy a liter of rum than a kilo of powdered milk. Ever since convertible currency stores appeared in the nineties, people have been demanding price reductions for basic ...

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