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What’s Coming in Cuba is Frightening

With former minister Alejandro Gil, all the reports were hopeful, the future was promising, now his replacement has thrown cold water on us.

We’re lucky in my neighborhood that our water is guaranteed to arrive regularly every third day, from before nine am until three or four pm.

Deficiencies in all sectors of Cuban farms, non-payments to producers, lack of fuel and an exodus of the labor force.

The Cuban government routinely tries to impress with figures that the population has no way of knowing what they really represent.

The temporary migration program of health workers with “friendly countries”, is the main inflow of foreign exchange for the Cuban regime.

While serving coffee, my aunt began to talk about a new store that had opened, where everybody working there were Jehovah’s Witnesses.

It has been reinforced by the worsening economic crisis in Cuba, rising inflation, and the emergence of the private sector in recent years.

Readers of the official press are divided between those in favor of a heavy hand and those against the government’s measures.

The residents, meanwhile, only hope that the city buildings will benefit from the paraphernalia of the event.

Blaming United States hostility towards Cuba for all the ills afflicting the island has become a manic exercise of the Cuban political elite.