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The Economy in Cuba: Everyone for Themselves

The average salary hovers around 4,000 Cuban pesos (CUP). ($10 USD) A few years ago, that was enough to get by. Today, it’s a cruel joke.

Jose Marti spent more than half his life outside of Cuba, including 15 years in the United States. He never accepted US citizenship.

The price of the dollar or euro can soar, stabilize at a new high, and then fall sharply. However, it rarely returns to its starting point.

Every night, neighbors gather around a small business haloed in light and a faint whisper of internet thanks to a generator.

Highs will range between 25 and 30°C (77–86°F), and lows between 20 and 21°C (68–70°F). The sea surface temperature will be 28°C (82°F).

Valerie Love from Canada took our photo of the day: “The Year 2015 in Granma, Cuba”.

According to economist Pedro Monreal, the promise “does not make clear how subsidies and loans could translate into real resources.”

Latin America’s biggest polluters reveal contradictions and paradoxes in their climate policies that undermine the limited progress made.

The Cuban government’s new economic program promises to correct the “distortions” that are suffocating the country, however…

If the Prosecutor’s Office announcement about charges against Alejandro Gil was a “smokescreen,” it backfired badly.