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Cuba in a Tailspin: Building Collapses and Blackouts

The Matraca artists draw about the recent building collapse in Havana, and the latest energy crisis with widespread consequences.

There are five ways to kill you and we Cubans have two options. Either play dumb, or we swallow our fear.

Ministers: The people know that Cuban socialism isn’t the road, except for the band of corrupt functionaries that live off their backs.

They’re taking the piss out of us, there’s no doubt about it. Mercilessly and shamelessly. They are mocking us, ironically.

Before hurling baseless and thoughtless accusations, the ex-President should have analyzed the causes of the social discontent.

Well, the Minister of Economy, Alejandro Gil, warned us this week that everything was going to get worse, especially in the next two weeks.

The Cuban people feared CDRs and only saw it as a nest of informers who they had to get on with, but who they also had to distrust.

The power will not go out every day, as viewers thought the officials would both announce. “Cuba has not hit zero”.

The role of the government should be to serve the needs of the people. Not for the people to serve the needs of the leaders.

The Assembly of Filmmakers finally did take place, but the Internet was “inexplicably” cut, so several members online could not take part.