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Supply Without Demand and Vice Versa

The difference from the 1990s crisis is that there is an abundance of supply, which is incredible. Now the conflict is money.

In mid-2022, my wife and I decided to leave the country. The first step was to find a destination country, and it wasn’t easy.

In 2018, I started making videos. My son played the role of editor. A friend of mine taught him an editing program, which he quickly learned.

Ordinary Cubans have few options for summer vacations. Tourism still takes center stage, but I can’t say it’s been a bad summer for me…

The first time I thought about leaving Cuba was in 2016. I remember it was night, and I was swimming in the pool of the Hotel Panamá,

I was conducting a survey & took a bus arriving at a place that seemed like a camping facility (a little like a hostel) I hadn’t known before

My grandmother’s birthday is approaching, perhaps her last, and my mother is pulling out her savings. My grandmother asks for a cake.

Almost 10 years have passed between this and my previous publication in Havana Times. A lot can happen in a decade.

A friend’s father passed away. He was a young man, 66, but had many illnesses: diabetes, hypertension, and he smoked like a chimney.

The young artist Mabel Melendez built a wooden tank widely seen at the opposition march in Carabobo, Venezuela and on social networks.