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Bedbugs Are Affecting Many Homes in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba

“I knew this was happening, I had heard many stories, but it’s another thing to experience it,” Yeandris explains.

Two events this past week pointed to the deteriorating (economically speaking) state of sports and athletes in Cuba.

Ferrer was released on Thursday after three and a half years in prison, although his sentence had technically expired last December.

The same mistake is now being made in Cuba with the Chinese photovoltaic parks, which are doomed to failure.

On January 3, 2023, Sandra’s son decided to embark for the USA, together with another 24 Cubans, all hoping to find a better place to live.

Leaving prison is an overwhelming experience. The sounds cease to be just the squeaks of the bars and begin to be familiar voices.

“They have left the small prison to enter the big prison,” said an elderly Cuban woman on Thursday.

When my mother told me that the hour of charcoal had arrived, I didn’t feel the shiver of excitement that used to herald celebrations…

I knew the grave where the mother of dictator Fulgencio Batista was buried, before the current dictatorship.

The present in Cuba, unclassifiable by any euphemism, is without a doubt the harshest times we’ve gone through on this island.