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Different Takes on Cuban Emigration

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.

On the shelves where there should be bottles of extracts, herbal teas, or vegetable-based creams, there are only handwritten signs.

A very peculiar event was held at Grados restaurant, located on E Street between 23rd and 25th in Havana’s Vedado district. (20 photos)

Why are there intellectuals in Cuba who seem unaware of the national establishment’s responsibility for what’s happening in the country?