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Another Face of Cuba: The Sellers of Used Objects

Many of these merchants of hardship worked their entire useful life for the State and now survive in the rawest form of indigence.

Potatoes have just arrived at the rationed markets in Havana and Cubans do not need a town crier to alert the population.

Surrounded by the same secrecy that accompanied their arrival, in recent weeks, the Turkish floating power plants have begun to leave Cuba.

Part of the old fleet of the state-owned Cubana de Aviacion airlines, the ‘plane’ was equipped to serve 24 diners.

Total costs and financing mechanisms for the solar parks have not been issued, except that they involve agreements with the Chinese government

Machismo and the gender inequalities inherent in Cuba’s patriarchal society put women in rural communities at greater vulnerability.

Calibre Mining Co., which operates mines in La Libertad and Leon, has announced its merger with the likewise Canadian company Equinox Gold.

Several schools have reduced their hours and only offer classes in the mornings or from Monday to Thursday.

The lucrative humidor auction closed the event. The government says the money goes to the Cuban Health System.

An open secret is that much of the bread sold by street vendors is made in the same bakeries that make the rationed bread rolls.