Business & Economy

“The ACs are broken here’” says a worker at Plaza del Calzado shoe store, which will soon switch to selling in dollars and suddenly have AC.

Many retirees would need to invest half of their pension in a simple 284-gram (0.62 lbs.) package of imported coffee.

Alex Jimenez, a 21-year-old Cuban, has been running a thriving business that he has decided to call Mangatiny.

The government believes that what matters is not what happens or what people endure to survive, but whether that others find out about it.

Before, the retired doctor and researcher sold wine, says his daughter, because “his retirement isn’t enough for anything.”

For months now, the accumulated garbage on the streets of several Cuban cities has become part of the urban landscape.

Many workers have chosen to return to their cities of origin, chiefly Cardenas and Matanzas, to seek alternatives outside the tourist sector.