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Holguin is a Very Clean City, Despite Everything

When people from Holguin visit Havana , we are taken aback by how dirty it is. It’s shocking for us to see garbage dumpsters overflowing…

The present of an enslaved people is very sad, which is unable to make progress on its own and is forced to live like a mere parasite.

Yohandry is 18. At the beginning of May, he received a notice to appear and register for his military service.

Cuba, with great farm potential, is far from being a leader in this field & needs to import 70% of the food we consume or should be consuming…

Their real crime is defending freedom of expression and creation, something that the Cuban regime fears to the limits.

A Venezuelan millionaire is locked up for a kidnapping. That might be an interesting headline or the premise for an action movie.

I can’t switch on the small electric stove, so I open the fridge, take out a bit of powdered milk and stir it with some water from the tap.

It’s a mystery how certain people can influence lives. They weave themselves into peoples’ stories, leaving a never-ending legacy.

I used to lose myself in the magical world of cartoons, every time my old black & white Russian TV let me (it was broken a lot of the time).

I first want to say that I’ve been a vegetarian for half a century. It was a personal decision, no preaching that others should do the same.