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Cuba: Pensions Increase, Elderly Hunger Remains the Same

The increase in some pensions in Cuba was approved on Wednesday and will take effect on September 1st.

Groups of children and teenagers cling to moving vehicles to slide across the asphalt, as if practicing a kind of “urban skiing.”

Riding the bus into downtown or walking along its avenues is a true pleasure for those of us who enjoy architectural details. (21 photos)

Founded in the 1990s to circumvent the US embargo, GAESA has grown into the island’s dominant economic player.

Of the eight floating power plants Cuba once had, only one remains in Regla, and it’s suffering from a lack of fuel.

I was 26 the first time I was forced to flee a dictator. It was in 1975, and I had to escape Nicaragua for resisting the regime of Somoza.

“They came & told us we had to leave the clinic because it had been shut down.” Doctors received orders to immediately stop treating patients.

I say this from my own experience. I am part of this diverse, contradictory emigrant community shaped by personal history.

Their market is dollarized stores, tourist hotels, and warehouses controlled by the Cuban military conglomerate GAESA.

Petals that resemble brushstrokes of oil paint, textures you feel with your eyes, colors that tell the story of an exuberant land. (16 photos)