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Gasoline in Dollars: The Gap Widens Between Cubans

Gasoline has become a scarce commodity, a privilege that divides even among car owners: those with access to dollars and those who don’t.

The province is reorganizing services to monitor the sick, while residents avoid the emergency rooms due to the poor conditions of hospitals.

Climate change, the greatest negative externality in history, is hitting Latin America hard, exacerbating inequality, threatening the common good.

Once again any public demonstration in Cuba is considered outside the framework of “institutionality” and therefore illegitimate.

The sudden closure of a store with a notice on the door or none at all, is often the clearest sign of its conversion to the dollar system.

This facility in Havana uses six Turkish chimneys but is located on land—only the engines remain to be installed.

Sitting in the doorway of a neighbor’s house, Teodosia Nilda Hernandez, 80, sells a pair of shoes to make it to the end of the month.

The total area of the concessions exceeds the surface area of some departments such as Managua, Chinandega and Estelí, notes CONFIDENCIAL.

The country already has a 94% renewable electricity mix, but plans to diversify by adding more than 100MW of solar by 2026.

Twenty years after her first idyllic trip to Cuba, Marina, from Spain, discovers a devastated country and deplorable service in 5-star hotels.