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A Cuban Farming Town Where “There Is No Life”

“Nothing ever comes to the ration store. We’re living off the small private businesses, off hot dogs that cost 450 pesos.”

A group of them are now struggling to adapt to a bittersweet process that still moves them: the joy of having found their families again.

Two doctors said that the bank told them it did not have the foreign currency to pay them what they were owed for their work in Angola.

“We need to withdraw more and more, and the banks are giving less and less,” lamented a frustrated citizen about inflation.

Women of the Guatemalan highlands are training as solar energy technicians, breaking down barriers of machismo, illiteracy and poverty.

“We were called in to unload the rice, but the people on the ship won’t hand it over until they see the money.”

Students have come forward with reports of institutional repression & intimidation aimed at preventing them from joining an academic strike.

Abdul Montoya was refused entry by the US and Canada. He now awaits word from Spain, where he’s applied for nationality.

Family members of the fourteen political prisoners are deprived of any information regarding their whereabouts or state of health.

At the entrance of the tunnel connecting Vedado & Miramar, at the corner of Malecon and 22nd St., you’ll find the 1830 Restaurant (15 photos).