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Cienfuegos, Cuba Suffering from Drop in Foreign Tourism

“Sales have been greatly affected. Just a few years ago, up to ten buses with tourists stopped here every day, and we catered to them.”

Cuban president Diaz-Canel says that private businesses in Cuba “do not have” the Government’s confidence.

Deficiencies in all sectors of Cuban farms, non-payments to producers, lack of fuel and an exodus of the labor force.

Nicolas Maduro made public statements claiming if he does not win reelection, the country “could fall into a bloodbath, into a civil war.”

The Cuban government routinely tries to impress with figures that the population has no way of knowing what they really represent.

The temporary migration program of health workers with “friendly countries”, is the main inflow of foreign exchange for the Cuban regime.

TV and radio stations reaching nearly every Venezuelan household provide a barrage of ruling party propaganda and Maduro campaign rallies…

The shortage is concentrated almost entirely in the products dispatched only with a special control card mostly for chronic illnesses.

Maria Corina noted that “Maduro’s campaign is violence” and held the president responsible for any harm to her and that of her team members.

It has been reinforced by the worsening economic crisis in Cuba, rising inflation, and the emergence of the private sector in recent years.