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The High Cost of Menstruating in Cuba

Cuban Women spend up to 30 percent of their salary on buying personal hygiene products, a chronic problem that has only worsened.

When dictator Fulgencio Batista fled in the early hours of January 1, 1959, few imagined the sweeping changes ahead for the country.

Pedro Garce, organizer of Havana gasoline lines, fights against ’Imperialism’ and the Bureaucracy of those ’From Above’.

Eleven years ago, the young woman founded the “Buena Vida” brand of natural products. Now she’s fulfilling her yearning to become a pilot.

The law “places banks in a highly vulnerable position regarding correspondent banking relationships and international operations.”

“This is a necessary process to acquire foreign currency and allow the government to control it, using it for the benefit of the population.”

Venezuela is experiencing a countdown to January 10, 2025, charged with tension. That’s the date a new six-year presidential term will begin.

In recent days, the announcement of new internet rates to take effect in 2025 has generated uncertainty among Cubans…

I converse in Chihuahua with Mexican fishers and farmers about drought, climate change, the incoming US president, the border, etc.

A pound of tomatoes sells for 400 pesos (around 10% of an average monthly salary) while last January it cost 100.