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Cuba: Luxury Hotels over Repairing Electric Plants

Priorities: ‘There Is No Money’ to Repair Thermoelectric Plants in Cuba, But There is Plenty to Invest in Luxury Hotels owned by the Military

In Nuevitas (Camagüey), the regime has managed to quiet, with repression and for the moment, last week’s mass protests.

Renewable energies, especially solar and wind power, are growing inexorably in Chile, driven by large companies.

A breakoff from the National Folkloric Group, Obini Bata has been shining on the Cuban arts scene and abroad since 1993.

Cuba’s childbirth care system prioritizes infant mortality statistics but ignores quality indicators and humanized childbirth practices.

The energy deficit, due to the poor state of the thermoelectric plants and the lack of fuel, has plunged Cubans into darkness.

Foreign currency won’t be sold at airports; they say “they need to boost and facilitate more Cubans’ access to this foreign currency market.

This controversy is marked by social and political tension that indicates the forces and struggles of power within Cuban civil society.

Will Chile have a new constitution that prioritizes water and climate change issues, gender equality and decentralization?

The remains of a sparkling, effervescent, city are fading. It’s a Havana that exists only in old photos & silhouettes of its closed hotels.