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Hotels, Excursions and Modern Cars Denote Cuba’s New Rich

“I don’t know if it’s because people are trying to escape blackouts, but they’re buying like never before… even with prices switched to USD.”

The new system is already up and running, but “people still don’t know about it,” said an employee at the Obispo branch in Old Havana.

The increase in some pensions in Cuba was approved on Wednesday and will take effect on September 1st.

Groups of children and teenagers cling to moving vehicles to slide across the asphalt, as if practicing a kind of “urban skiing.”

Founded in the 1990s to circumvent the US embargo, GAESA has grown into the island’s dominant economic player.

Highs will be between 31 and 33ºC (88 and 91°F) and lows between 23 and 24ºC (73 and 75°F). Sea surface temperatures will be 30ºC (86°F).

Of the eight floating power plants Cuba once had, only one remains in Regla, and it’s suffering from a lack of fuel.

I say this from my own experience. I am part of this diverse, contradictory emigrant community shaped by personal history.

While heading back home from the dentist’s office, I decided to go by the center to get a few things done, like buying soap for example.

Their market is dollarized stores, tourist hotels, and warehouses controlled by the Cuban military conglomerate GAESA.