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The Catharsis of Cuban Singer/Songwriter Silvio Rodriguez

This week, a critical article by singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez about the situation in Cuba sparked intense debate on the island.

Before her arrest, Mayelin, a mother of three children, shouted from a platform: “Where is the Revolution…? Everything has fallen apart.”

Many of these merchants of hardship worked their entire useful life for the State and now survive in the rawest form of indigence.

The Penal Code punishes those who incite others to beg, and the penalty increases if they are children or disabled people.

They’re designed to be a short-term solution. But in Cuba, solutions to the housing problem have moved at a snail’s pace for decades.

La Güira National Park, is a paradise in the midst of the humid mountains in Cuba’s westernmost province of Pinar del Rio. (10 photos)

Potatoes have just arrived at the rationed markets in Havana and Cubans do not need a town crier to alert the population.

Surrounded by the same secrecy that accompanied their arrival, in recent weeks, the Turkish floating power plants have begun to leave Cuba.

The State Department concluded that 92 programs, managed by the International Republican Institute, were not “in the national interest”

Part of the old fleet of the state-owned Cubana de Aviacion airlines, the ‘plane’ was equipped to serve 24 diners.