Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

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I’ve noticed this growing trend at the supermarket where I work and at stores, car washes, or barbecue stands.

Sometimes you feel like crying, you hold it in, and no one notices your feeling of helplessness. Other times, you can’t hide it.

“Art is about healing, about helping people keep their sensitivity, fall in love with what they see, feel, build new emotions.” (13 photos)

According to official statistics, state bread production in Cuba has fallen by 34 percent over the past six years.

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Barely enough to buy four bottles of cooking oil or two and a half cartons of 30 eggs in the small private shops when they are available.

Sometimes I wonder at what moment it stopped being a house. In Cuba, shuttered houses have become a metaphor for absence.

The Colon Cemetery in Havana, a victim of thieves and also a source of money to finance the departure from the country.