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Over recent weeks, Cuban TV news shows have featured the unusual coverage of corruption cases linked to the private sector on the whole.

“If the cooperative can’t meet production targets when there were some supplies, what can we say will happen now when we don’t have anything?”

It’s a good and bad thing, at the same time. It helps because the few people who should have been wearing a mask and didn’t, are now being forced to…

In the early days of April, COVID-19’s appearance in Mayari was close at hand; and the first positive case would be identified at any moment.

Some people note that the risk of infection is just a “maybe”, but the need to eat and wash oneself is a “definite and immediate” need.

Word quickly got around Mayari and the population’s concerns and stress, relating to the real fear of becoming victims of this pandemic, began.

This season, nature has been kind to tobacco crops in Mayari, Holguin. And my drying process is going well thus far.

The “temporary” crisis in Cuba isn’t living up to its name and is stretching out like the structural evil it truly is.

Horse-drawn wagons and bicitaxis are the main means of transport in Mayari, Holguin, a municipality of 105,000 inhabitants…

I was already a man, although still quite young, when I discovered Jose Marti. The real Marti that is, in his own words…