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The Challenge of Withdrawing Money from ATMs in Cuba

In Cuba, performing a routine task like withdrawing money from an ATM has become a daily odyssey for thousands of citizens. (14 photos)

It was a three-story building located in the Havana neighborhood of Santos Suárez and declared uninhabitable years ago.

The movement on the chess board signifies, at least immediately, Trump’s acknowledgment that Maduro in power is a valid interlocutor.

Daymé Arocena (Havana, 1992) says that some people are afraid to call her black. “It’s as if it were a hurtful word.”

The first time I spoke with him I was working as assistant director of a TV program and our team went to his apartment to interview him.

The private bakeries are restricting the number of items each customer can purchase while many government bakeries have even less to sell.

The topic of my research and study is “Understanding the Experience of Former Political Prisoners from Latin America Living in Exile.”

Until now, the official narrative insisted on ignoring the problem or attributing it to the US sanctions policy against the island.

When my aunt told me about this, I couldn’t believe it. This experience wasn’t even lived during those grim and monstrous 1990s.

Until last year, in Havana the planned schedules were mostly adhered to. However, in 2025, the situation has turned into complete chaos…