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Better Incentives Needed to Expand Solar Energy in Cuba

About 95 percent of Cuba’s electricity generation relies on fossil fuels. For that to change would mean major investment.

The influence of high pressure continues over Cuba and its adjacent seas, generating a stable environment with scarce rainfall.

The main event of the International Workers’ Day will not be held at the Plaza de la Revolución to save on fuel.

The pattern is clear: as is also the case in Europe, when safer routes are closed off, people start taking riskier ones.

The latest donation will provide each Cuban with just under a third of a pound of rice under the country’s universal rationing system.

Maria travels to Guyana, Russia, Peru, Colombia or Venezuela to buy products as cheaply as possible for her store in Cuba.

Chile is the most convincing exception. Gabriel Boric has supported Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion.

What Cuban hasn’t thought about leaving the country? Without knowing the exact number, I can assure you that a large percentage.

Eggs cost 3,500 pesos per carton of 30 on the informal market. Most retirees receive pensions of less that 2,000 pesos a month (under $7 USD)

The sale of medicines and the purchase of foreign currency, all informal, happen in plain sight of the police.