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Cuba’s Indigents and Leaders

The talk of the week was the unfortunate remarks—and swift dismissal—of the Cuba’s Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó.

The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship promotes hate and fear of different ways of thinking. Neither God nor his priests escape the persecution.

No, I won’t be talking in this post about economic megaconglomerates, fashion, or genetically modified crops.

Cubans are once again facing a “special period”, a crisis in everything, reviving the phantom of the dreaded blackouts of the 1990s.

I’m in one of the dirtiest, busiest, most central parts of Havana, where shared taxis depart for far-flung neighborhoods of the capital.

This year, we will see Trumpism align itself with Milei in Argentina and with Kast in Chile, while the pressure against Lula continues.

When power controls individuals like an unscrupulous machine, disobedience constitutes an act of humanity.

Many who have left the country, besides being physically broken, did so to spare their families further anguish and prevent retaliation.

The current decline in the arrival of tankers from the South American country directly threatens the survival of the Cuban system.

As the difference grows between the bellies of Cuban leaders & the situation of everyday Cubans, the government preaches creative resistance.