Swapping Makes a Comeback to Mitigate Shortages in Cuba
From the ’90s, the question remains as to makes the value of ??a chicken the equivalent to a pair of shoes or two long-sleeved shirts for twelve eggs?
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Aurelio Pedroso
Cuba’s Piglets with Wings
In all his magical realism perhaps even Gabriel Garcia Marquez could never have imagined pigs with wings.
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When Can Cuba Safely Reopen to Tourism?
There is a great need for tourism, although it will not escape the global depression ahead. It will be an option for those who want and can ($) come.
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The Reopening of Cuba’s Tourist Industry, When and How?
The resumption of tourism to Cuba will be a decision where the public health authorities, regardless of urgent economic interests, will decisively intervene.
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Cuba in a Virtual State of Emergency
It cannot be interpreted any other way. President Miguel Diaz Canel said, “the coronavirus is coming at us.” We must halt the extension of the virus.
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The Latest Notorious Case of Censorship in the Cuban Media
I never imagined that things would go this far. If it’s a matter of imagination, I would like to know one day who made such a ridiculous decision.
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CUC, Favorite Son to Unwanted Child
We have started the year with a former ally who has now become our enemy on the street and at home: the so-called “Convertible Cuban Peso”.
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Spanish King and Queen will Play Hide and Seek in Cuba
Their Majesties will be coming to Cuba in light of the 500th anniversary of the city of Havana, but won’t take part in the official celebrations.
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Attention, Plumbers, the Blockage is in Cuba’s Provinces
This seemingly indestructible bureaucracy, which is the bane of Cuban society, is becoming stronger in the provinces where a government official, sitting at a desk in a second-class office, is called to dampen the existence of Cuban people’s papers or procedures in their hands.
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Cuba’s Hoarders, On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
“This problem is related to food, which is considered a national strategy, and doesn’t seem to ever bear its calming fruits for one reason or another, which is economic, the crisis, the lack of resources to ensure a steady supply of what we need to send food down the esophagus into the stomach and not via TV announcements.”
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