Cuba Archives - Page 43 of 516

I Have Lived in Two Centuries

Some young people make fun of older people, seeing them as inferior, as if they no longer had anything to offer life…

The figure, calculated from partial data, could be even worse, as Cuba goes from being the world’s leading producer to importer.

It takes courage to stop a collective ovation! In an instant, you go from being one of the crowd to being “the crazy one,” the bitter one…

An official Cuban newspaper laments the loss of value of the MLC and its replacement by the “empire’s” currency.

As Havana crumbles it is also falling apart in its memory. I walk through the city like someone rummaging through the ruins of a lost empire.

“I don’t know if it’s because people are trying to escape blackouts, but they’re buying like never before… even with prices switched to USD.”

The new system is already up and running, but “people still don’t know about it,” said an employee at the Obispo branch in Old Havana.

The increase in some pensions in Cuba was approved on Wednesday and will take effect on September 1st.

Groups of children and teenagers cling to moving vehicles to slide across the asphalt, as if practicing a kind of “urban skiing.”

Founded in the 1990s to circumvent the US embargo, GAESA has grown into the island’s dominant economic player.