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Cuba Today: Covid-19 with Reforms (Cartoons)

The coincidence of the Covid-19 uptick with the economic reforms has complicated the routine of lines and juggling to get basic necessities.

Today’s featured artist is Chick Corea who recently passed. He plays improv, with Roy Haynes and Miroslav Vitous at the White House in 1982.

According to VP and economic chief, Marino Murillo, these reforms will encourage equal pay in Cuba. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

Former diplomats feel the latest US State Department press release marks the “approach” the Biden administration plans to follow on Nicaragua.

“Migrants have always been agents of change,” a Cuban tour guide named Javier told me several months before Obama’s historic visit.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called “deficient,” compliance with its recommendations issued in 2019 to the state of Nicaragua.

Here is our 7-day forecast for Havana. High temperatures between 29 and 31° C (84 and 88 F), and lows at 21 and 22° C (70 and 72 F).

Today’s featured artist is Jacob do Bandolim from Brazil with the song “Cadencia” from the album “Vibracoes” (1967).

Repeated detentions trap Nicaraguans who oppose the government. The tactic is designed to lessen the “political cost” for the dictatorship.

I had just gone to four markets, returning home with only a quarter of what I managed to get the previous week. Cuba’s food shortage worsens.