Better Incentives Needed to Expand Solar Energy in Cuba
About 95 percent of Cuba’s electricity generation relies on fossil fuels. For that to change would mean major investment.
Read MoreAbout 95 percent of Cuba’s electricity generation relies on fossil fuels. For that to change would mean major investment.
Read MoreMaria travels to Guyana, Russia, Peru, Colombia or Venezuela to buy products as cheaply as possible for her store in Cuba.
Read MoreEggs cost 3,500 pesos per carton of 30 on the informal market. Most retirees receive pensions of less that 2,000 pesos a month (under $7 USD)
Read MoreThe sale of medicines and the purchase of foreign currency, all informal, happen in plain sight of the police.
Read MoreDemographic problems can be alleviated through collaboration with private companies, according to the interview that the newspaper Escambray.
Read MoreHuge stores full of Chinese products have been flooding Nicaraguan cities. Employees are not offered benefits or a formal work contract.
Read MoreIn Holguin, as in most of the Island, private businesses are rapidly replacing dilapidated state-owned companies infrastructure.
Read MoreThose who live in Cabaiguán, once one of the most prosperous municipalities of Sancti Spíritus, claim that the town is divided into two.
Read MoreWith Cuban agriculture continuing to disappoint, Beijing promised to send some 20,408 tons of rice to the Island throughout 2024.
Read MoreEven some of the gigantic mansions in Havana’s exclusive Siboney that were confiscated after the 1959 Revolution are now up for sale.
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