Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Long Lines at Havana Banks Due to Cash Shortage

“We need to withdraw more and more, and the banks are giving less and less,” lamented a frustrated citizen about inflation.

For the first time in decades, the average Cuban found in internet access a crack in the wall, a breath of freedom and a voice of their own.

Today’s featured band is Agua de Florero from Argentina with a video clip of the song “Atesoraré” from 2021.

Women of the Guatemalan highlands are training as solar energy technicians, breaking down barriers of machismo, illiteracy and poverty.

Jodi Newell from the United States took our photo of the day: “Midnight Cowboy in Trinidad, Cuba”.

“We were called in to unload the rice, but the people on the ship won’t hand it over until they see the money.”

Here are some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

Students have come forward with reports of institutional repression & intimidation aimed at preventing them from joining an academic strike.

For many years now, I’ve noticed a great hatred for trees and the land here in Cuba, and I don’t understand why.

Abdul Montoya was refused entry by the US and Canada. He now awaits word from Spain, where he’s applied for nationality.