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What’s Happening in Moa, Cuba’s Nickel Capital?

Complaints from Moa are not new. For decades, Moa’s residents have warned about environmental degradation and its impact on their health.

“The ACs are broken here’” says a worker at Plaza del Calzado shoe store, which will soon switch to selling in dollars and suddenly have AC.

Many retirees would need to invest half of their pension in a simple 284-gram (0.62 lbs.) package of imported coffee.

Alex Jimenez, a 21-year-old Cuban, has been running a thriving business that he has decided to call Mangatiny.

Francisco García paid nearly $13,000 to a smuggler to take him to Greece, where he now survives on the streets.

While many applaud Cuban boxer Andy Cruz’s decision to come back to his homeland to visit family, others attacked him…

The government believes that what matters is not what happens or what people endure to survive, but whether that others find out about it.

Before, the retired doctor and researcher sold wine, says his daughter, because “his retirement isn’t enough for anything.”

For years, the government has acknowledged the hemorrhaging caused by massive emigration, largely of university-trained youth.

For months now, the accumulated garbage on the streets of several Cuban cities has become part of the urban landscape.