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Amid Dirty Water & Trash New Market Built in Holguin, Cuba

The market will be occupied mainly by self-employed workers who had to leave the nearby Feria de los Chinos.

In the middle of the lagoon, a private restaurant offers visitors local products: chicken, lamb, goat, pork, and fish.

“A few years ago, people were shocked to see a child selling avocados on the street. Now, many consider it normal, even during school hours.”

Residents fear that the epidemiological crisis affecting other Cuban provinces will spread to their city.

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.