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Tears and Farewells

I know the bitter taste of farewells all too well. As a child, I would go to Havana with my grandparents to say goodbye to my aunts.

In the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus it took two months to deliver the same amount of pork meat produced in one day in 2018.

Raising money needed to embark on a migrant route to the United States is the reason why many are being driven into this business.

An Algerian who was jailed at the US Naval Base on occupied Cuban territory in Guantánamo for 20 years without trial was sent home to Algeria.

It’s strange how times change. Years ago, my desire was to tell stories, make other Cubans feel things, dissect reality, converse.

This week we have drawn in solidarity with those sentenced for the protests of last July 11th throughout the island.

You could still hear Russian on Varadero’s streets up until a few weeks back, but the Ukraine war has taken away those tourists…

“It bothers me that they are brainwashing the children, and you can’t do anything about it, because it’s the school,” says a mother.

The court said Robles had a “marked interest in creating a destabilizing environment for the social system and domestic economic development.”

Jenny Cressman from Canada took our picture of the day: “Making guayaba bars”, in Granma, Cuba.