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Poverty Reaches Much of the Population in Cuba

Sitting in the doorway of a neighbor’s house, Teodosia Nilda Hernandez, 80, sells a pair of shoes to make it to the end of the month.

The total area of the concessions exceeds the surface area of some departments such as Managua, Chinandega and Estelí, notes CONFIDENCIAL.

At the end of last August, the well-known Havana priest Father Lester Zayas protested a Yoruba ritual performed in front of his church.

Twenty years after her first idyllic trip to Cuba, Marina, from Spain, discovers a devastated country and deplorable service in 5-star hotels.

Seven years later, the country’s police state apparatus keeps watch and persecutes, under a cloak of normality.

As if the countless hours of blackouts weren’t enough, now there’s no way to know when the power will come back on or how long it will last.

While common crimes in today’s Cuba multiply under police inaction, political dissent remains tightly controlled.

“When they say they’re going to lower prices, the products disappear,” complains the population. It happens over and over again.

The energy crisis that afflicts the Island comes to the surrounding areas of the Casino Deportivo, where villas with gardens are plentiful.

In the long agony after the collapse of the socialist bloc in Eastern Europe, those still in power in Cuba were forced to shed some weight.