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Cuban Gov. Abandons Obligation on Water in Sancti Spiritus

If there are people who can’t even afford bread, how can you ask them for money to fix a pump that the State should be repairing?

The man finished listening to the WhatsApp voice message from his son. He massaged his temples, without smiling, without feeling joy…

After defeating Daniel Ortega at the polls in February 1990, she became the first elected woman president in the Americas.

Another university student warns, amid the advance of dollarization, that the country “also belongs to those of us who don’t have dollars”.

Santa Catarina, Brazil has already eliminated open dumps, although it is ignored if all of them have been cleaned up.

“Nothing ever comes to the ration store. We’re living off the small private businesses, off hot dogs that cost 450 pesos.”

A group of them are now struggling to adapt to a bittersweet process that still moves them: the joy of having found their families again.

Two doctors said that the bank told them it did not have the foreign currency to pay them what they were owed for their work in Angola.

“We need to withdraw more and more, and the banks are giving less and less,” lamented a frustrated citizen about inflation.

Women of the Guatemalan highlands are training as solar energy technicians, breaking down barriers of machismo, illiteracy and poverty.