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The Days of Water

We’re lucky in my neighborhood that our water is guaranteed to arrive regularly every third day, from before nine am until three or four pm.

Deficiencies in all sectors of Cuban farms, non-payments to producers, lack of fuel and an exodus of the labor force.

Irina Echarry from Cuba took our photo of the day: “Havana from the Morro Castle.”

The law targets Cubans abroad who engage in “acts contrary to the high political, economic, and social interests” of the island.

The Cuban government routinely tries to impress with figures that the population has no way of knowing what they really represent.

The temporary migration program of health workers with “friendly countries”, is the main inflow of foreign exchange for the Cuban regime.

I left the nostalgia behind. No political system or economic situation are going to rob me of the right to live today.

The shortage is concentrated almost entirely in the products dispatched only with a special control card mostly for chronic illnesses.

While serving coffee, my aunt began to talk about a new store that had opened, where everybody working there were Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Highs will be between 32 and 33ºC (90 and 91 F) and lows between 23 and 25ºC (73 and 77 F). The sea surface temperature will be 28ºC (82 F).