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Cuba’s Indigents and Leaders

The talk of the week was the unfortunate remarks—and swift dismissal—of the Cuba’s Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó.

Nostalgia is often linked to the Havana Malecon. What Cuban, or foreign visitor, hasn’t sat on that wall that holds back the sea? (18 photos)

No, I won’t be talking in this post about economic megaconglomerates, fashion, or genetically modified crops.

Cubans are once again facing a “special period”, a crisis in everything, reviving the phantom of the dreaded blackouts of the 1990s.

Valerie Love from Canada took our photo of the day: “Hi Author,” in Granma, Cuba.

Without housing, formal employment, and a ration book, these internal migrants are “illegal” in their own country.

We went on a bus rented by the community, along with other neighbors who joined in the plan, which had been spontaneously organized.

The season has arrived for a fruit so cherished by Cuban women: the mango. We eat it in every way possible—juice, sweets, smoothies, raw.

Those receiving the minimum pension of 1,528 pesos (≈ 4 USD at the informal exchange rate), will see their income doubled.

I’m in one of the dirtiest, busiest, most central parts of Havana, where shared taxis depart for far-flung neighborhoods of the capital.