Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Hotels, Excursions and Modern Cars Denote Cuba’s New Rich

“I don’t know if it’s because people are trying to escape blackouts, but they’re buying like never before… even with prices switched to USD.”

The new system is already up and running, but “people still don’t know about it,” said an employee at the Obispo branch in Old Havana.

The increase in some pensions in Cuba was approved on Wednesday and will take effect on September 1st.

They called on the world’s nations to act to restore humanitarian assistance to the starving population of the Gaza Strip.

Gilberto Ramirez Pinheiro from the United States took our photo of the day: “Movement”, in Ohio, USA.

We bring you some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Friday, August 8, 2025.

In the 1970s, the Mexican state worked with an avant-garde architect to build unique homes for workers in Mexicali.

New law turns a 15-kilometer border strip into Nicaraguan State property, generating uncertainty over land ownership.

Groups of children and teenagers cling to moving vehicles to slide across the asphalt, as if practicing a kind of “urban skiing.”

It’s so important to make male paternity leave increasingly mandatory, promoting shared parental responsibility, like in Sweden and Iceland.