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Cuban Sports Trainers in Venezuela “Waiting for Orders”

Víctor C., a Cuban coach in Caracas, woke up on January 3 with his heart in his throat. “We got a big scare, but we’re okay.”

The military escalation casts doubt on the future of Cuban medical brigades in Venezuela, an important income source for the government.

“The 1,000 pesos I had saved to buy a little piece of meat are going to go on medicines,” says a retired woman in San Jose de las Lajas, Havana.

They arrived in Cuba in the late 1940s and 1950s, a period of intense vehicle imports and expansion of the national automotive fleet.

Loss of household goods caused by hurricanes drives up demand for mattress makers in the east of the country.

Cuba depends on opaque agreements, indirect routes, and ships that sail under the shadow of sanctions and seizures.

In the Cuban State’s conception, “food sovereignty” does not translate into farmers freedom to decide what to produce and how to market it,

We witnessed another direct insult to a people facing inflation, pulverized wages, and empty markets—as if deprivation were a cultural choice

“We are not Asians; that is not a Cuban habit,” a government official argues that Cubans should consider other foods.

Let’s understand the scope of Carretero’s relationships with the Miraflores Palace in Venezuela and how they extend to Cuba.