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Fewer Cubans Living Abroad Are Traveling to the Island

Tourism in Cuba has been experiencing a profound crisis since the COVID-19 pandemic which shows no signs of recovery.

Bahamas will establish direct contracts with the Cuban healthcare workers currently in the country, instead of via the Cuban government.

If there are people who can’t even afford bread, how can you ask them for money to fix a pump that the State should be repairing?

Santa Catarina, Brazil has already eliminated open dumps, although it is ignored if all of them have been cleaned up.

“Nothing ever comes to the ration store. We’re living off the small private businesses, off hot dogs that cost 450 pesos.”

Two doctors said that the bank told them it did not have the foreign currency to pay them what they were owed for their work in Angola.

“We need to withdraw more and more, and the banks are giving less and less,” lamented a frustrated citizen about inflation.

“We were called in to unload the rice, but the people on the ship won’t hand it over until they see the money.”

I wasn’t the only one who went underground among many artisans who had jumped aboard the train of economic freedom through self-employment.

I had just gotten onto one of the buses that circulate through the breezier outskirts of the Cuban capital after a brief struggle to board.