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New Setback in Cuba for Electric Power

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)

Economist Pedro Monreal believes the government doesn’t care about hotels, but rather about the real estate business of leasing them.

This deceptive narrative, common in official Cuban discourse and echoed by state media, omits key internal causes and distorts reality.

“The always-antagonistic relationship between wages and inflation has taken on dramatic tones in daily life in Cuba.”

The price increase reduces online activity to the essentials and makes video calls an unreachable luxury for many Cubans.