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Freedom is Brewing in Cuba

Thirteen years ago on May 1st, a group of citizens paraded through Havana. “Down with Bureaucracy, Long live the Workers”, were their slogans.

“What’s on my dinner table starts in this line; if I don’t stand here, what do we eat?” So says an 82-year-old retiree…

The high temperatures will hit 32-33° C (90-91 F), and the lows between 22-24° C (72-75 F). The sea surface temperature will be 27° C (81 F).

Our reader Einar Holmen from Mexico took the photo of the day: “Playing at Sunset” in Trinidad, Cuba. He used his Canon 6D camera.

His wooden house was demolished when he was just ten. He built another one with the boards, a three-story house, in a tree in the backyard.

I recently stumbled across a Latin American forum with opinions about Cubans’ quality of life. The reality is we have a bad reputation.

Our reader Larry Benvenuti from the United States took the photo of the day: “Miguel Toledo,1996” in Escambray, Cuba. He used his Kodak camera.

For decades, the Cuban and US governments have found minimal relations between the two countries in both of their interests.

Early morning on May 2, State Security and medical personnel forcibly entered the home of Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero and kidnapped him.

Cuban officials lament that the current US president, Joe Biden, doesn’t want to return to the open policy towards Cuba of Barack Obama,