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Cuba’s New Electricity Rates: Cartoon Feature

The new rates for electricity and other public services take effect in January 2021. We are alarmed just like most Internet users.

For about three months medicines hadn’t come, but yesterday supplies arrived. So this morning there is a big crowd outside the pharmacy.

In most countries with even a semblance of observing civil rights what Luis Robles did would be part of everyday life. Not in Cuba.

The bill prohibits candidates the regime considers “coup promoters” from running. “It’s a totalitarian measure,” opposition leaders say.

The new communities of activists, journalists, artists and intellectuals grow in accordance with civil society itself and the private sector.

High school graduate Nazareth Valladares Arguello had planned for several weeks to raise the Nicaraguan flag in her graduation ceremony.

Fed up with censorship and a lack of freedoms, hundreds of artists came together outside the Ministry of Culture in Havana on 27N.

There is a moment in a political struggle where nothing happens by chance. Totalitarian states build reality, manufacture lives, also deaths.

Today’s featured band is “Yawanawa” from Brazil with the song “Ramino”. Remember you can also share your favorite songs with our readers.

Really stressed… that’s how we’ll start January waiting for our electrical bill in early February. Let’s hope there’s no other surprises.