Diaries Archives - Havana Times

Venezuela & Cuba: External Expectations, Internal Paralysis

The military escalation in Venezuela, widely covered by the international press and Cuban opposition media, has once again awakened a fantasy.

I don’t know whether to feel happy or sad when a childhood friend who lives in another country tells me she’s coming to Cuba & wants to see me

Housing is a major challenge in Brazil. Some sources estimate a deficit of six million homes nationwide. Nevertheless, there are options…

Despite the expectations of some families to celebrate December 31, for others it no longer is an important date—quite the opposite.

A sister in the faith let me know that a meal would be held for people experiencing homelessness in the city. I decided to help out.

They arrived in Cuba in the late 1940s and 1950s, a period of intense vehicle imports and expansion of the national automotive fleet.

What stands out is how social differences have become established, visible in how families with higher incomes have generators in their homes

In Cuba, housing is not just a roof: it is a broken promise, an old wound that cuts across generations.

My wish is that motherhood or fatherhood is not a martyrdom, but a blessing: the blessing of knowing we carry good news.

Authorities acknowledge that in Havana between 40% and 50% of the pumped water is lost—a figure that at times reaches 70%.