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Contrasting Views on Cuba’s Tourism Industry

Unable to recover to pre-Covid numbers of visitors, is the Cuban tourism industry now about to boom or continue a steady decline?

As Cuban agriculture produces less each year the government hopes that under Vietnamese management the trend can be reversed.

It happened in the former headquarters of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, later turned into tenement housing after 1959.

Cuban exiles who practice Santería return to the island to make offerings to their deities and perform other rituals.

Tower K—named after the Havana street where it stands—has been controversial since its construction began.

The tone rose during a tense two-hour meeting in Luanda: “We don’t want virtual money; they are scamming us.”

Despite all the shipments from Mexico, the Cuban population continues to suffer endless blackouts.

They almost always cook over wood or charcoal in a huge pot where products contributed by many anonymous hands are prepared.

This new incentive aims to increase Cuba’s charcoal exports to 250 tons, which barely reached 36 tons in 2024.

Political, economic and moral corruption abound in the regime, but neither Ortega or Murillo can stop the “unauthorized corruption.”