“Getting by” in Cuba’s Food Crisis + Covid-19
Today, my family will eat some tamales made from corn that I have grown on my plot of land. Corn is extremely expensive in Cuba right now…
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Osmel Ramirez
Another Independent Journalist Arrested and Awaiting Trial in Cuba
Last Sunday June 28th, my friend and Diario de Cuba colleague, independent journalist Jorge Enrique Rodriguez Camejo, was arrested.
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A Rural Family’s Experience of Police Operations during COVID-19
For two days straight, June 19-20, the family of my mother-in-law Cecilia Carballosa Beltran, their house and farm, were victims of police harassment.
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Is There a Fix for Cuba?
To many Cuba appears to be in dire straits as if there was no solution to its chronic problems but at the same time it doesn’t die.
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Five Actions to Increase Tobacco Production and Earnings in Cuba
As a citizen journalist and tobacco farmer, I would go out on a limb and recommend five points or actions that could help to increase production and revenue.
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Planting Everything during COVID-19
The Government is telling Cubans to “boost farming efforts.” It’s nothing new, they have always said it and these words are carried away by the wind…
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Televised Police Operations: the Cuban Government’s New Psychological Strategy?
Over recent weeks, Cuban TV news shows have featured the unusual coverage of corruption cases linked to the private sector on the whole.
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“There’s No Country Without Farming” Is Still Valid
“If the cooperative can’t meet production targets when there were some supplies, what can we say will happen now when we don’t have anything?”
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Masks in Cuba: An Imposed and Dangerous Trend!
It’s a good and bad thing, at the same time. It helps because the few people who should have been wearing a mask and didn’t, are now being forced to…
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Personal Experience of Fighting My Mother’s Disease during COVID-19
In the early days of April, COVID-19’s appearance in Mayari was close at hand; and the first positive case would be identified at any moment.
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