Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Getting Around Cuba with the Public Transport Crisis

Alicia didn’t have good transport options to get to work even when the transport situation was “normal”. Today, it’s much worse.

The communists continue to believe that the solution to the lack of food in Cuba can be found without touching the issue of property rights.

Our exile has been most vilified; even by European democratic parties, which continue to play the same old anti-imperialist song.

JetBlue was the first to explore the potential of air travel to the island. Seven years later, things concerning Cuban routes look bleak…

Today’s featured artist is Toto la Momposina from Colombia with the songs “El Pescador”, “Aronde Me Meto Yo” and “Tres Golpes” (2015).

The informal market for the purchase of national currency in cash grows, given the discomfort of the authorities.

Neither the three young prisoners nor their families have been informed why they’re being held by the regime.

“We’ll do everything possible to help them continue their studies,” promised the UCA in El Salvador and the Landivar University in Guatemala.

Although here in Cuba what is truly worrying are his speeches in Spanish, this week Matraca concentrates on his English.

Peggy Shand from Canada took our photo of the day: “Childhood Memories, gathering apples on the farm”, in Ontario, Canada.