Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Cuba: Dollar Hits a Historic Record on the Informal Market

Independent economists do not rule out that the exchange rate will soon exceed the 200 bar and even reach 300 to the USD.

A dramatic call to break the silence and end the cruel prison conditions imposed by the regime of Daniel Ortega.

They haven’t been charged or presented before a judge, nor have they been allowed any communication with their lawyers or families.

If none of the 11 candidates garners 50% of the vote a runoff between the top two vote getters will be held on October 30th.

During the first interruption of the internet on Thursday evening we asked the state service provider, Etecsa, for explanations…

Hendrik Dragt from The Netherlands took our photo of the day: “Sunrise in Havana, Cuba”.

Ortega’s order “disrupts daily life,” says expatriated sociologist Maria Teresa Blandon. HRW: “Nicaragua is not Ortega’s private property.”

In Brazil, voters head to the polls Sunday for an election that could see President Jair Bolsonaro replaced by ex President Lula da Silva.

There is no water, food spoils, children cry; people on the streets look like zombies, sad, silent, hopeless. This is today’s Cuba.

Cubans live their day-to-day lives swayed by authoritarian rhetoric: they seek it out and find it in Kendall, Lavapies or Calimete.