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Havana Weather for July 14-20

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.

I originally set out to explain the tactics the Cuban government has used to keep its population in check for more than half a century.

Wherever simplifications of political realities are being reproduced today, with the goal of driving hatred, the twilight is spreading.

In 365 days the situation has not improved. Nor the quality of life of Cubans. The conditions that led to the July 11 protests still persist.

Wayne Snyder from the United States took our photo of the day: “Pot of Rice and Beans (Congri)”, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.

Never again should we allow single thinking, blacklisting, or hate rallies, or we will continue, indefinitely, going around in circles.

It was designed by architect Jose Luis Echarte, and its perimeter was drawn out with different geometric shapes, rectangles, squares & circles