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Adapting to Survival in a Foreign Country

We immigrants are united by a kind of common bond, born of our awareness of the other’s griefs: “I suffer, I miss, I have to limit myself…”

“We need to withdraw more and more, and the banks are giving less and less,” lamented a frustrated citizen about inflation.

For the first time in decades, the average Cuban found in internet access a crack in the wall, a breath of freedom and a voice of their own.

Jodi Newell from the United States took our photo of the day: “Midnight Cowboy in Trinidad, Cuba”.

“We were called in to unload the rice, but the people on the ship won’t hand it over until they see the money.”

Students have come forward with reports of institutional repression & intimidation aimed at preventing them from joining an academic strike.

For many years now, I’ve noticed a great hatred for trees and the land here in Cuba, and I don’t understand why.

Like a prisoner might write on the walls of her cell. Because my house is my home, but for several reasons it has also become my prison.

I wasn’t the only one who went underground among many artisans who had jumped aboard the train of economic freedom through self-employment.

I had just gotten onto one of the buses that circulate through the breezier outskirts of the Cuban capital after a brief struggle to board.