Author: Circles Robinson

Happy Cubans with Their New Laws

In the latest session of National Assembly truly revolutionary measures were approved, which will lead substantially to the wellbeing of the Cuban people. Cartoonist Carlos gives his interpretation.

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Being a Woman and Mother in Cuba Means Sacrifice

In Cuba, the first game girls play is “happy homes” which involves filling toy pots and pans with rice and beans so we can play at cooking them while we look after dolls as if they were our own children. If we have brothers, then we protect and pamper them, as if they were our own children, washing their clothes and even making their meals.

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Havana Weather for July 18-24

From the end of the mornings the cloud cover will increase and in the afternoons there will be rain including showers which may be intense in some areas. Isolated electrical storms are possible. The high temperatures will be at 32 and 33° C (90 and 91 F), while the lows will be around the 25° C (77 F).

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Desperation and Fear on the Mexican Border

When the siblings turned themselves in to US Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, in mid-April, agents separated them. “Where are you taking him?” she asked. “He’s going to a better place than you,” she said an agent replied. But as we have found, Gloria’s brother, like other children in Border Patrol detention, certainly was not going to a good place.

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