Cuba Archives - Page 249 of 479

Faced With Shoe Prices, Cubans ‘Resolve’ With the Cobblers

“Before the revolutionary triumph, the cobbler shoemaker was a poor trade. The present shows the opposite”.

If you are passing through the city, we recommend you take a tour of what’s known as the “Cuchillo de Zanja” (32 photos)

“It’s hard to go back,” said Benjamin Ziff, the US chargé d’affaires at the Havana embassy. “The world has changed since Obama’s time.”

Meyvis Rega Calvo from Cuba took our photo of the day: “Polymitas on My Balcony”, in Villa Clara, Cuba.

These are the phone conversations between two friends who were determined to help each other our in these hard times in Cuba.

Khan’s lawyer said in a statement, “Guantánamo is a national shame, & we hope that today is another step forward towards its ultimate closure.

They say that the University of Havana Law School has become a “den of police, opportunists and mediocrity”.

The neighborhood continues to be on the fringe, even though Havana has inevitably spilled far beyond it over the last century and a half.

Bukele said that you can walk anywhere in Cuba at 2 AM without being in danger, that it’s a very safe country in his opinion.

“I need a sponsor, whatever the cost,” a neighbor who has plenty of gray hair and lacks resources told me, looking at me without blinking.