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Cienfuegos, The Lost City at Sea

The exhausted city is slipping away. Locals come and go, lost in this city crying out for a push forward, a simple gesture of love,

A witness tells of Hurricane Iota’s impact in Bilwi, one day after it made landfall. “There are many homes destroyed, and no services.”

In the North Caribbean, the electric power service is interrupted, so it is impossible to know the damage.

Could poverty in Cuba be deliberate? Benjamin Noria believes it is and not collateral damage from the US blockade or neoliberal capitalism.

One year after her second jail term began, the student and political leader speaks about the current prisoners’ hunger strike.

Hurricane Iota will hit the North Caribbean of Nicaragua Monday afternoon, less than two weeks from when Eta hit in the same area.

Today’s featured artist is Taincho y Su Tres Cubano from Cuba with a performance of the song “La Loma del Tamarindo” (2010).

It seems the Cuban government’s war on sweets never ended. Chewing gum was frowned upon, because it supposedly represents the US Way of Life.

When Iota approaches the coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras, on Monday night, it will most likely be a major hurricane.

A couple of days ago, my cousin came to see baby Oliver and told me: “Cousin, what’s happened to you? You look like a tank.”