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Not One Step Back

My cousins were the ultimate expression of rebellion in our bucolic environment and conservative family.

I’m not really trying to reaffirm it. Nor do I intend to vindicate past times; nor do I denigrate the present.

Today’s featured band is Las Hermanas Benitez from Cuba with the song “Fuera Pena” (1964).

Ernesto Gonzalez from Cuba took our photo of the day: .”A Beetle in Havana, Cuba”.

Alicia didn’t have good transport options to get to work even when the transport situation was “normal”. Today, it’s much worse.

The communists continue to believe that the solution to the lack of food in Cuba can be found without touching the issue of property rights.

Our exile has been most vilified; even by European democratic parties, which continue to play the same old anti-imperialist song.

JetBlue was the first to explore the potential of air travel to the island. Seven years later, things concerning Cuban routes look bleak…

The possibility of having an exit to the sea in the territory allowed the interrelation with all the neighboring areas.

The informal market for the purchase of national currency in cash grows, given the discomfort of the authorities.