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Roberto Madrigal Has Left Us, a Dear Friend

Dying on a Sunday might not be so bad—there’s more silence, a tranquility that makes us reflective. Sundays tend to be long, sometimes too long.

Highs will be between 32 and 34°C (90 and 93°F), with lows 22 and 23°C (72 and 73°F). Sea surface temperature will be 28°C (82°F).

Rodolfo Rensoli has died, the person who made real the dream of a Hip Hop festival in East Havana—for at least six editions.

We immigrants are united by a kind of common bond, born of our awareness of the other’s griefs: “I suffer, I miss, I have to limit myself…”

“We need to withdraw more and more, and the banks are giving less and less,” lamented a frustrated citizen about inflation.

For the first time in decades, the average Cuban found in internet access a crack in the wall, a breath of freedom and a voice of their own.

Jodi Newell from the United States took our photo of the day: “Midnight Cowboy in Trinidad, Cuba”.

“We were called in to unload the rice, but the people on the ship won’t hand it over until they see the money.”

Students have come forward with reports of institutional repression & intimidation aimed at preventing them from joining an academic strike.

For many years now, I’ve noticed a great hatred for trees and the land here in Cuba, and I don’t understand why.