Cuba Archives - Havana Times

Gasoline in Dollars: The Gap Widens Between Cubans

Gasoline has become a scarce commodity, a privilege that divides even among car owners: those with access to dollars and those who don’t.

The province is reorganizing services to monitor the sick, while residents avoid the emergency rooms due to the poor conditions of hospitals.

Rapper Fernando Almenares, known as ‘Nando OBDC’, is another victim of the repression denounced in a September report.

When you are unjustly locked in a cell without knowing when you’ll be able to leave, that’s when you grasp the full worth of freedom.

Highs will be between 29 and 31°C (84–88°F) and lows between 19 and 22°C (66–72°F). Sea surface temperature will be around 30°C (86°F).

Cuban businessman Mike Fernandez believes the thaw with the US failed because “the Cuban leaders, being older, were afraid of change.”

Everything dark, every shadow is associated with evil, with darkness itself, & though it may not be literally true, it can sure seem that way.

Once again any public demonstration in Cuba is considered outside the framework of “institutionality” and therefore illegitimate.

The sudden closure of a store with a notice on the door or none at all, is often the clearest sign of its conversion to the dollar system.

In collaboration with Spain, specialists from Cuba Energy are experimenting with biofuels instead of diesel to power bakery ovens.