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Cuban Mothers Who Protest and the Power that Represses Them

Before her arrest, Mayelin, a mother of three children, shouted from a platform: “Where is the Revolution…? Everything has fallen apart.”

Five of the seven women are classified as suffering “forced disappearance,” their exact whereabouts and condition unknown.

They’re designed to be a short-term solution. But in Cuba, solutions to the housing problem have moved at a snail’s pace for decades.

La Güira National Park, is a paradise in the midst of the humid mountains in Cuba’s westernmost province of Pinar del Rio. (10 photos)

Potatoes have just arrived at the rationed markets in Havana and Cubans do not need a town crier to alert the population.

Surrounded by the same secrecy that accompanied their arrival, in recent weeks, the Turkish floating power plants have begun to leave Cuba.

The dictatorship has registered some of the confiscated properties as belonging to public institutions, to try and “legitimize” the seizures.

Part of the old fleet of the state-owned Cubana de Aviacion airlines, the ‘plane’ was equipped to serve 24 diners.

The film should be shown in schools, so the youth can reflect about what’s at stake when a government is exercising terror.

Total costs and financing mechanisms for the solar parks have not been issued, except that they involve agreements with the Chinese government