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Mountains of Garbage in Havana Show State’s Inefficiency

In Luyanó, residents scattered the garbage until it blocked the street; in other areas of Havana they have set fire to the mountains of trash

In Holguin, as in most of the Island, private businesses are rapidly replacing dilapidated state-owned companies infrastructure.

Those who live in Cabaiguán, once one of the most prosperous municipalities of Sancti Spíritus, claim that the town is divided into two.

OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, announced that he will request an urgent meeting of the Permanent Council.

Even some of the gigantic mansions in Havana’s exclusive Siboney that were confiscated after the 1959 Revolution are now up for sale.

Indigenous people, community leaders, and experts share their visions of Nicaragua’s most ancient cultures.

“The solution to Venezuela’s electricity problem no longer lies in thermal plants, which are being closed down in other parts of the world.”

‘It’s terrible what we go through for children to learn something and meet what school demands,’ says a Cuban mother.

“I will continue to fight for my Cuba to be really free, because I left the small prison and entered the big one. I don’t feel free.”

The agreement had stipulated an obligation to work ten years for the government after graduation or pay over US $61,000 to be released.