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Cuba’s Point Man for Instilling Communist Party Ideology

Rogelio Polanco, 57, heads the powerful Ideological Department of the Cuban Communist Party, which governs all legal media.

Ortega is a loyal disciple of Fidel Castro, who utilized the dissenters imprisoned during Cuba’s 2003 Black Spring as tokens of exchange.

“Official discourse insists on “changing whatever needs to be changed” and in “letting productive forces loose”, but this is just rhetoric.

More than a quarter of a million Cubans abandoned the island last year, and the vast majority were young people, many of them highly educated.

French whole milk at over $4 USD was enough for a murmur of indignation to run through the crowd at the new private store.

Brad McBlain from Canada took our photo of the day: “Portrait of a Bird”, in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba.

Hoping not to bore you, I want to tell you about some of the things Cubans are talking about the most on the street these days.

Crossing borders, embarking on a journey which you only know the beginning but not the end, while you accept an uncertain future…

Niels Graverholt from Denmark took our photo of the day: “Today’s Catch”, in Havana, Cuba.

Duannys Moreno Sánchez became known in Cuba during the sad days of the fire in the supertankers of Matanzas in August, 2022.