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The Year 2024: One of Darkness in Cuba

Castroism has lost a good part of the little popular support it had left and will limp into January. Unfortunately, so will Cubans.

Rather than greater openness and flexibility, 2024 was marked by decrees that mostly imposed tighter control over the private sector.

Repression, family dictatorship and growing Chinese influence marked Nicaragua in 2024. We present an overview of the 10 principal events.

On Monte Street, the smell of improvised chicken coops spreads through the nearby houses and gives the neighborhood a certain rural touch.

Personally, I believe we have surpassed every stage of agony and are now in the throes of a death struggle.

The Cuban regime insists on the narrative that the centrally “planned economy” is the best way to develop the country.

Cuban Women spend up to 30 percent of their salary on buying personal hygiene products, a chronic problem that has only worsened.

Pedro Garce, organizer of Havana gasoline lines, fights against ’Imperialism’ and the Bureaucracy of those ’From Above’.

Eleven years ago, the young woman founded the “Buena Vida” brand of natural products. Now she’s fulfilling her yearning to become a pilot.

The law “places banks in a highly vulnerable position regarding correspondent banking relationships and international operations.”