Havana’s Modern-Day Thirst
Havana teeters between the engineering of the past and the hydric crisis of the present. Meanwhile, thirst persists among its people.
Read MoreHavana teeters between the engineering of the past and the hydric crisis of the present. Meanwhile, thirst persists among its people.
Read MoreIn Cuba, getting dressed is not just a daily act: it is a mirror of identity and, at the same time, of crisis.
Read MoreIn its early days, Miramar was nothing more than a wooded and swampy area on the other side of the Almendares River, with a few haciendas…
Read MoreAlcides, 68, drags his jolongo (cloth sack) through the streets where garbage piles remain for weeks without being collected.
Read MoreCuba, the largest island in the Caribbean, is surrounded by a deep blue ocean that used to be overflowing with life.
Read MoreIn Havana, getting into a shared taxi is not an everyday act. Surviving transportation is a feat. A relentless battle…
Read MoreAs Havana crumbles it is also falling apart in its memory. I walk through the city like someone rummaging through the ruins of a lost empire.
Read MoreI’m forced to take the same route every time I leave the house, so it’s hard for me not to run into the same old holes, full of water…
Read MoreMy childhood was in the 1990s, when Cuba began its so-called “Special Period” crisis. However, back then many Cubans trusted in an improvement
Read MoreIn a town in the Pinar del Rio province, there’s a young 18-year-old girl; whose real name I won’t disclose here for obvious reasons…
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