A total of 18 homes for the elderly in Cuba are operated by religious institutions and fraternal organizations, both of which are maintained by private donations and tax-payer’s money, in addition to the 12 million Cuban pesos (US $600,000) they receive from the State budget every year.
Read MoreGuanahacabibes, Cuba’s westernmost peninsula, a place some consider inhospitable, has been an inexhaustible source of legends about treasures buried by corsairs and pirates.
Read MoreLast February, when 83-year-old veteran military leader Ramiro Valdés Menéndez visited the urban cooperative La Esperanza [The Hope] in the city of Fomento, the 11 partners had great expectations.
Read MoreWater shortages in the town of Santiago de las Vegas (in Havana’s municipality of Boyeros) have become more frequent since January of this year. The Boyeros municipal government has mobilized over 50 water trucks as part of a plan to mitigate the problem.
Read MoreToday, Cuba’s sugar industry has the same production levels it did at the beginning of the twentieth century and, during the last harvest, even produced less than planned. That said, it is also true that after reaching rock-bottom, over the past five years it has experienced an average growth of 13%.
Read MoreThe announcement that the Paris Club and Cuba have set the island’s foreign debt with those countries at US $15 billion is a positive contribution to the strategy traced by the Raul Castro government, aimed at inserting the country into the world economy.
Read MoreReplacing the current low-speed dial-up systems with broadband Internet connections during 2015 and 2016 – and taking these services to at least 50 % (or 1,942,950) homes by 2020 – are two of the noteworthy aims of Cuba’s Ministry of Communications, part of a “National Strategy for the Development of Broad Bandwidth Infrastructure in Cuba.”
Read MoreThe Cuban government’s economic restructuring policies have in part afforded the population opportunities to secure licenses for businesses aimed at a sexually diverse public. Clubs and discos that once operated in the shadows no longer do so, and these are becoming more numerous and visible, especially in the capital.
Read MoreFor the first seven years of Cuba’s “reform process,” the focus of attention has been on the liberalization and restrictions of the country’s economy and politics. The social repercussions of these changes have been studied far less.
Read MoreIn Cuba, you can run into a talented athlete who’s just traded kicks with New York’s Cosmos and fraternized with soccer legends Pele and Raul and who, after wiping off the sweat worked up by the match, returns to his native city to continue roughing it with his private “business.”
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