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Cuba’s Rice Hunt

What’s happening with rice in Cuba today reminds me of that dark time in the 1990s known as the “Special Period in Times of Peace.”

Hunting Pigeons for Soup in Havana

It’s incredible what people do to eat meat.

A Round of Applause for the Cuban People

Except for Havana, most Cuban provinces haven’t reported any new cases of COVID-19, for some days now and have entered the first phase of recovery.

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.

A Legend from the Pinar del Rio Countryside

Rural Cuba has stories which, if compiled into a book of fables, would be called “Cuban rural mythology”. They are about peasants, especially, the elderly.

Cuban Teenagers Arrested and Fined for Playing Soccer

It happened suddenly: a police car drove up, a female police officer got out and called for back-up. A few minutes later, there were three patrol cars.