The Walker, Isle of Youth, Cuba – Photo of the Day
Irina Echarry from Cuba took our photo of the day: “The Walker”, on the Isle of Youth, Cuba.
Irina Echarry from Cuba took our photo of the day: “The Walker”, on the Isle of Youth, Cuba.
Contrary to what might happen in similar situations, various initiatives started up, both in and outside the island, wanting to be useful…
“State Security visits us and harasses us, but we are going to continue asking for the freedom of our children.”
Cuba’s official celebration for having neutralized poor and dissident young people through imprisonment and exodus.
The Government says that the US is using the hardships as part of the embargo, decreed in 1962, to provoke a social uprising.
The “free visa” for Cubans has turned Nicaragua into a springboard for the new mass exodus of islanders to the United States.
The days will be partly cloudy from morning to nightfall, with little rain. The high temperatures will be 32 and 33°C (90 and 91 F).
“US policy towards Cuba has been dictated by internal politics ever since the end of the Cold War, when Cuba lost strategic value…”
Cuba has little foreign currency for imports & what exists is leaving the country with the people whose life mission is to leave the island.
The only thing growing in Cuba is the number of rooms in empty hotels. It doesn’t make sense with the tremendous housing shortage.