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Cuba’s Elderly Pose a Challenge

October 15, 2018 Circles Robinson 0 Comments Pilar Montes

“The Cuban population is falling in absolute terms and this intensifies its aging process,” demographer Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, explained. Emigration, especially of young adults, is the main reason for this population decline, which accentuates the low number of child-bearing age inhabitants.

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“Racism and Violence, a Perverse Relationship”

September 4, 2018 Circles Robinson 0 Comments Pilar Montes

A song by Cuban pop duo Buena Fe goes: “And that woman with bruises will say she slipped in the wind, I fell in the sea, goes back to the kitchen to hide tears behind onions.” There are updated stats in Cuba about physical and psychological violence not only against women and girls, but also against boys and men, although to a lesser degree.

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Opinion 

Cuba’s Performance at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games

August 7, 2018 Circles Robinson 5 Comments Pilar Montes

Cuba’s results at the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, 2018, should make the Cuban people swell with pride because seeing their athletes’ win is one of their greatest sources of joy. However, comments in our media mentioned a “bitter pill to swallow”…

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Cuba Faces Lingering Medicine Shortages

July 1, 2018 Circles Robinson 16 Comments Pilar Montes

In June 2018, the list of available essential medicines in Cuba was short by 45 drugs, according to Public Health authorities. However official sources say that shortages today aren’t as serious as they were last year,

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Cuba’s Leaky Public Coffers Need to be Urgently Closed

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Circles Robinson 4 Comments Pilar Montes

The main stones along the island’s rocky path towards sustainable development are chaos and corruption, evils which brought about more than $8 billion USD in losses to the national economy last year.

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In Cuba People are Worried over the Two-Currency System

March 21, 2018 Circles Robinson 0 Comments Pilar Montes

Experts in these money issues have argued that our future prosperity will only come about when there is a single currency. However accomplishing this has proven a long drawn out process, thus far without an ending.

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Cuba 2018: Change is Pressing

January 5, 2018 Circles Robinson 1 Comment Pilar Montes

Nearly 60 years after the Cuban Revolution, this higher educated and more healthy people are asking that the principle of “change whatever needs to be changed” be applied in this life and not in the life that believers hope will come after death.

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Opinion 

The Antidote for an Uncertain Future

June 27, 2017June 30, 2017 Circles Robinson 0 Comments Pilar Montes

Mafalda, this precocious and intelligent girl who appears in cartoons, already said it: “the future today isn’t what it used to be.” The future is something that worries everyone: young people and the elderly, rich and poor people.

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Features 

Depression, the “Silent Epidemic” Also Attacks in Cuba

April 3, 2017April 6, 2017 Circles Robinson 0 Comments Pilar Montes

A recent medical event in Havana and particular indicators I picked up on in TV programs and social projects, stirred my curiosity about the impact of depression in Cuba. In Latin America, Brazil is the country with the highest level of depression, followed by Cuba, Paraguay, Chile and Uruguay.

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Business & Economy Features 

Cuba: Small Slithers of Change Towards Progress

March 13, 2017March 18, 2017 Circles Robinson 4 Comments Pilar Montes

Within the internal and external setbacks which the Cuban people have experienced in the last 60 years, physical and mental changes are being seen in language and daily tasks which make the most optimistic of us see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

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