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When I think about BANDEC (Cuba’s Credit and Commerce Bank), the first adjective that comes to mind is “hurdles”.

When the shortages got worse last year, and rice started to go missing I realized that I had to expand my root vegetable and banana crops

If there is one thing that we Cubans can all agree on, it’s the need for change. Differences begin when specifying what kind of change.

Cuban agriculture has been in crisis for decades now, but it’s a lot more visible today because of more drastic consequences.

It’s as if there were two Cubas: the one on the street and the Cuba presented in official discourse, the one contemplated at the Congress.

Three days before the 8th Communist Party began on April 16, over 60 measures were announced, seeking to boost agriculture in the country.

Cubans go wild with happiness when news comes that a police officer has been dismissed or taken to trial for a crime.

The Government’s excessive confidence in its “exceptional” protocols led it to declare the “new normal” phase with haste in several provinces

The song “Patria y Vida” (Homeland and Life) has become an anthem of hope, peace & freedom for Cubans living both on the island and abroad.

With markets empty people’s hopes of getting food lie in our fields. However in Mayarí, neither Nature nor bureaucrats are on our side.