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Author Leonardo Padura Paints the Cuba of Today

Padura: in Cuba, the only option left is to leave, and 10 percent of the population has already done so in the last three years.

I must confess that I didn’t choose Brazil as my ideal destination. However, at this point, it brings me happiness.

In a sign of the hard times, the rationed daily bread roll sold to Cubans, when available, will now contain 60 grams instead of 80.

As time goes by, questions & speculations about the immigration program multiply, but there are no concrete answers for those who benefitted.

Gangs armed with knives and pipes wait for cars, and when they slow down, they pounce on them.

Instead of addressing the direct causes of the farm sector’s low productivity, the authorities continue to promote centralized structures.

In 2023, María Corina Machado stated at a press conference that the supply would only continue if the Cuban government paid for it.

“Asylum seekers we spoke to at the border said that they had actually watched the security forces open fire and shoot and kill protesters.”

The idea of migrant crime is based on a false & xenophobic thesis, on a lie that seeks to construct the idea of migrants as dangerous people.

The official did not say where they could get the inputs they need, but he did recommend that his local subordinates “demand compliance”.