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Migration in the Americas: A Dream That Can Turn Deadly

The pattern is clear: as is also the case in Europe, when safer routes are closed off, people start taking riskier ones.

Maria travels to Guyana, Russia, Peru, Colombia or Venezuela to buy products as cheaply as possible for her store in Cuba.

Eggs cost 3,500 pesos per carton of 30 on the informal market. Most retirees receive pensions of less that 2,000 pesos a month (under $7 USD)

The sale of medicines and the purchase of foreign currency, all informal, happen in plain sight of the police.

The Cienfuegos newspaper 5 de Septiembre mentions the figures published in the independent press, without giving credit

“This is the third cook I’ve lost since I opened,” says the woman, who owns a shop specializing in breads, desserts and cookies.

Demographic problems can be alleviated through collaboration with private companies, according to the interview that the newspaper Escambray.

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.