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How Tourist Agencies Are Scamming Vacationers to Cuba

Twenty years after her first idyllic trip to Cuba, Marina, from Spain, discovers a devastated country and deplorable service in 5-star hotels.

As if the countless hours of blackouts weren’t enough, now there’s no way to know when the power will come back on or how long it will last.

While common crimes in today’s Cuba multiply under police inaction, political dissent remains tightly controlled.

The energy crisis that afflicts the Island comes to the surrounding areas of the Casino Deportivo, where villas with gardens are plentiful.

“I’m not good at just asking for money”: one draws, another sings, and the third seeks out foreigners to “practice languages.”

September marks the return to classes throughout the island. The beginning of an authentic torture for many Cuban parents.

The metal boxes are “an alternative in the face of the shortage of essential building materials” to ease the housing crisis.

In the mecca of popular commerce in Havana, most everything can be found, including the buying and selling of dollars.

Cubans have not received rice through their ration books for months and are asking since when imports became news.

Cellphone theft is ever more common in today’s Cuba and contributes to the normalization of other crimes.