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Ten Films to Help Understand Cuban Emigration

Within the wide range of Cuban movies that deal with migration, I picked 10, whose characters suffer the “I-want-to-leave-Cuba” syndrome.

Roger Arteaga: the law would impact the government, the banks, credit cards and family remittances. No one would be exempt…

The latest report from Transparency International, on corruption in the public sector, places Nicaragua among the most corrupt.

The bloody toll of the invasion of squatters, from April 2018 to date: 17 Mayangna & Miskito indigenous killed. Nobody arrested and sentenced.

“If the US really wanted to end the Communist Party, they could.“ All they’d have to do is open the economy., said Javier, a tour guide.

“We have to produce milk so that anyone who wants to have a glass of milk can. And we have the land to produce it.” -Raul Castro in 2007.

Today’s featured artist is composer and bass player Israel “Cachao” Lopez from Cuba with the song “Guajira Clasica” de “Ahora Si” (2004).

The State demands that we register as “foreign agents” and none of us, writers committed to freedom, accept this imposition.

Ken Alexander of the United States took our photo of the day: “The Baker” in Havana, Cuba, using his Sony aR7 III camera.

The economic crisis with shortages included, plus COVID-19, serve to take a deep look within and analyze ourselves.