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Another Dictator?

It takes courage to stop a collective ovation! In an instant, you go from being one of the crowd to being “the crazy one,” the bitter one…

An official Cuban newspaper laments the loss of value of the MLC and its replacement by the “empire’s” currency.

As Havana crumbles it is also falling apart in its memory. I walk through the city like someone rummaging through the ruins of a lost empire.

“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.