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Cuba’s Ration Booklet Nightmares: Coffee

It’s been a long time since most Cubans have drunk a good cup of coffee. Of pure coffee, without substitutes, nor it being too watery.

The megaproject consists of seven sections along some 1,500 kilometers and will also cross the states of Quintana Roo and Yucatan.

Fleeing Ortega’s authoritarian regime, Nicaraguan journalists continue working in exile while overcoming the impossibility of returning home.

In many cases, these Cuban families break up. In the best ones, they are separated for many years.

More than five years ago, Melissa Teresa Vargas, the “child prodigy” of Cuban volleyball, was still in Cuba, in her hometown Cienfuegos.

“There’s a normalization of the violence against girls and teens,” observes sociologist and feminist Maria Teresa Blandon.

Central American researchers warn that the dictatorship uses study centers to establish “a model of indoctrination rather than education.”

Fifty years after the 1973 military coup in Chile, the United States finally declassifies part of its secret documents.

Despite more hotel rooms than there are tourists to fill them, the Cuban Government continues to bet on growth and building new hotels.

Russia is coordinating the recruitment of over a hundred Cuban mercenaries for its war effort in Ukraine, according to hacked documents.