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Poor Folks Coffee in Matanzas, Cuba: Scarce, Cold & Bitter

Many retirees would need to invest half of their pension in a simple 284-gram (0.62 lbs.) package of imported coffee.

Alex Jimenez, a 21-year-old Cuban, has been running a thriving business that he has decided to call Mangatiny.

“Corporate actors are profoundly tied in with the system of occupation, apartheid, and genocide in the occupied Palestinian territories”.

Francisco García paid nearly $13,000 to a smuggler to take him to Greece, where he now survives on the streets.

Cuba’s Volleyball Federation confirmed it: 12 athletes, one referee, and several coaches were left with their bags packed and uniforms folded.

The film explores themes of “power” and “guilt”, inspired by the “spirit of rebellion” in “Prosas Profanas” by Ruben Darío, says the director.

The government believes that what matters is not what happens or what people endure to survive, but whether that others find out about it.

Before, the retired doctor and researcher sold wine, says his daughter, because “his retirement isn’t enough for anything.”

There were also pot-banging protests in the municipality of La Lisa in response to the continuous blackouts.

For years, the government has acknowledged the hemorrhaging caused by massive emigration, largely of university-trained youth.