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Cuba: Stores & Gas Stations in US Dollars Continue to Grow

The sudden closure of a store with a notice on the door or none at all, is often the clearest sign of its conversion to the dollar system.

In collaboration with Spain, specialists from Cuba Energy are experimenting with biofuels instead of diesel to power bakery ovens.

Eating on the street is now a luxury. No more cajitas de comida or cups of natural juice. At most, fluorescent-colored instant drinks.

This facility in Havana uses six Turkish chimneys but is located on land—only the engines remain to be installed.

Sitting in the doorway of a neighbor’s house, Teodosia Nilda Hernandez, 80, sells a pair of shoes to make it to the end of the month.

Cuba has admitted for the first time that it produces cigars with prison labor, without free, decent, voluntary, & audited working conditions.

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.