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Cuba Expands USD Stores While Wages Are Paid in Pesos

Recent reports confirm that, as happened previously with the MLC, dollarization will extend to more stores than initially announced.

Putin’s envoy, Dmitri Chernichenko, signs 13 cooperation agreements in Havana, without it being known in exchange for what.

Miami Police Chief Manuel A. Morales acknowledges that “doing the right thing isn’t easy, as its easier to go with the flow.”

This photo essay documents the evolution of a vision, a technical & sensitive journey through the new face of Cuban architecture. (13 photos)

In the midst of disaster and plague, a graffiti in Guanabacoa reads: “I am Fidel. Thank you for the country you left us.”

The Garden of Affections, a museum of odds and ends created by Hector Pascual Gallo a Cuban barber turned diplomat and spy.

“Danzon was the first time Black and white people came together in the same ballroom. So, for the Spaniards, even the dance, was dangerous.”

Five of the 11 pastors from Mountain Gateway, a Texas based ministry, described their ordeal in the Nicaraguan prison.

Diesel in pesos disappeared, fuel sold in USD was never consistently available, and “clandestine gas stations” nearly doubled their price.

Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and arrested by ICE.