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Discovering Cuba – Tourism and the Plight of Sanctions

The role of the government should be to serve the needs of the people. Not for the people to serve the needs of the leaders.

“We have not indicated nor are we going to indicate a demobilization (of the workforce),” clarified the Minister of Economy, Alejandro Gil.

“About 140 Cubans are currently in Russia, most of them aware of the risks and a minority declaring that they had been deceived.”

Most protestors in Nuevitas who were accused and taken to trial are facing sedition charges, a serious crime against the state of Cuba.

Ramón Arencibia from Cuba took our photo of the day: “Deconstruction”, in Havana, Cuba.

The conclusion is that the Electric Company, which has a monopoly on energy, is also charging us for the blackouts.

In Cuba, blackouts are like numbers in math (π), a constant. This happened to me two nights ago, but it also happens in the day!

The Assembly of Filmmakers finally did take place, but the Internet was “inexplicably” cut, so several members online could not take part.

Those who once promoted executions of “snitches”, made the term more polite and created a system of “informers”.

The residents of Dragones Street built a parapet made of buckets and plastic tanks, which prevented the passage of vehicles & police patrols.