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Osmel Ramirez

Osmel Ramirez 

Police Brutality where the Victims End Up in Jail

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Osmel Ramirez 0 Comments

Cubans go wild with happiness when news comes that a police officer has been dismissed or taken to trial for a crime.

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Mayari Sees Big Jump in Covid-19 Cases

March 30, 2021 Osmel Ramirez 1 Comment

The Government’s excessive confidence in its “exceptional” protocols led it to declare the “new normal” phase with haste in several provinces

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“Patria y Vida” has Touched Cuban Youth in Particular

March 27, 2021 Osmel Ramirez 9 Comments

The song “Patria y Vida” (Homeland and Life) has become an anthem of hope, peace & freedom for Cubans living both on the island and abroad.

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Intense Drought Makes Life Harder in Mayari, Cuba

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Osmel Ramirez 1 Comment

With markets empty people’s hopes of getting food lie in our fields. However in Mayarí, neither Nature nor bureaucrats are on our side.

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Other Plagues Attacking Cubans

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Osmel Ramirez 5 Comments

For over three years our country suffers medicine shortages. Something that wasn’t as bad during the Special Period crisis in the ‘90s.

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Preparing for What’s Coming, Focused on Change

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Osmel Ramirez 0 Comments

This is how we see “the situation”, this modern version of the “Special Period”, as coined by Fidel Castro.

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Mayari’s Potholes and Horse-Drawn Carriages

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Osmel Ramirez 0 Comments

There’s been a new accident here in Mayari involving public transport in recent days: a horse-drawn wagon. Such have become common.

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What’s the New Year Looking Like in Mayari?

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Osmel Ramirez 1 Comment

The year 2021 is upon us and Cubans, like others, can’t say that “life carries on as normal”. The economic reforms add more uncertainty.

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Bus Fares in Havana to Double other Provinces

December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 Osmel Ramirez 2 Comments

New salaries announced by the Cuban government within the major reforms to take effect in January, will be applied nationwide.

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The Government Insults Cubans’ Intelligence

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Osmel Ramirez 2 Comments

Surely the government’s thinktanks are pulling their hair out right now, The peaceful San Isidro Movement are putting them in a real bind.

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