Sending Money to Cuba via the Internet Isn’t Easy
“What an odyssey to send money to people in Cuba. And the companies don’t even say anything.” This is how someone who regularly sends remittances to Cuba summarizes the situation.
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Vicente Morin Aguado
Cuba’s Example has Infected the Rest of the Latin American Left
After fighting a successful offensive to power, Latin America’s Left is now retreating. Cuba was always the leader of this movement and the region recognized it as its guiding beacon, but now it is languishing. Recent events unfolding (Nicaragua) point to a pathological infection which has spread from the Caribbean’s largest island.
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Monotony of May 1st in Havana Broken by Grafitti
Long live the Dictatorship!, somebody dared to write hundreds of meters away from Revolution Square, on the wall of a building which belongs to Havana University, near the Calixto Garcia Hospital, on the night before the annual May Day parade.
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Is Miguel Diaz-Canel Cuba’s Commander in Chief?
Mistakes in international press are common when it comes to talking about Cuba’s Head of State’s constitutional duties, national press also make these mistakes.
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Putin Polishes the Picture of Russia We’re Getting in Cuba
The Cuban state-owned press is focusing on its shoe-shining role, to polish up an election result which bestows upon Russia’s new Tsar six more years in government to rule with an iron fist, according to his own strange way of understanding democracy.
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An Art Gallery for Absent Minds Spreads across Havana
There are hundreds of drawings, some of which are murals that are over 20 meters wide, making the most of the faded white which prevails on walls of buildings that have partially collapsed over the past few decades. (7 photos)
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Cuba’s Black Market Responds to Chronic Shortages
The black market exists everywhere, but in Cuba, an exception of a country under a so-called “socialist” authoritarian government, shortages determine the specific features of this form of trade.
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Pork Price Shoots Up in Havana
January brought prices that people in Havana had never seen before at their markets. Boneless pork (steak), which is being sold for 50 Cuban pesos, the equivalent of 2 USD a pound, particularly stands out. While the price might seem reasonable in other countries, its quite a hefty sum for the extremely low Cuban salaries barely averaging 20 USD a month.
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Cuba: The Old Clock Needs More than a Few Repairs
On January 4th, Fernando Ravsberg published an article entitled “Challenges for Cuba’s New President”. The key issue revolves around the dual currency system, linking in with the tricky answer of how to refloat Cuba’s battered economy. The issue deserves to have all of its sensitive points poked at.
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What Are Cubans Celebrating with the New Year?
As Cubans awaited the New Year, we spoke with several in Havana about their expectations. One enraged man outside the Gothic church on Reina Street said: “They (the leaders) spend all day pointing the finger at each other while we, the underdogs, go from bad to worse.
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