Since his great-grandfather began to cultivate tobacco leaves in the fields of Viñales, Yurisniel Cabrera, his father and grandfather have followed this tradition so that Cuba can produce its emblematic cigarsbut this year the harvest will decrease due to lack of fertilizers. Next to his father and uncle, this 35-year-old peasant cuts the tobacco leaf […]
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Cuba, Iran, Maduro, Trump… personalities or governments that support Putin
[Nota de la redacción: Este artículo fue elaborado antes del inicio de la invasión de Rusia a Ucrania, pero dado su interés periodístico en este contexto lo compartimos con nuestros lectores.] The decision of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to recognize the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk has provoked the general rejection of the […]
Inflation and dollarization hit the already destroyed Cuban economy
After postponing it for at least a decade, at the beginning of last year Cuba applied a plan to reorganize its finances in the midst of a harsh economic crisis: it unified the exchange rate and its hitherto dual-currency system, increased wages, made access more flexible to profits for workers and adjusted prices. Now the […]
The US criticizes Cuba for fabricating the charges of the first convicted of July 11 protests
Updated on 02/18/2022 04:36 pm United States criticized the fabricated charges attributed to the first sentences of up to 20 years in prison for some twenty demonstrators who participated in the anti-government protests of last July 11, who seek to intimidate and suffocate future protests in the Island. This was stated by an official from […]
Human rights situation in Cuba is dramatic, says IACHR commissioner
Criminalization of peaceful protest, arbitrary arrests, summary trials, sentences of up to 30 years in prison, imprisoned opponents with deteriorating health: the human rights situation in Cuba is “dramatic”, affirmed the rapporteur of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for the island. The jurist Stuardo Ralón, one of the seven members of the IACHR, […]
Ladies in White are detained for the third consecutive Sunday in Cuba
Updated on 02/07/2022 02:45 pm Several people from the Cuban dissident collective Ladies in White They were arrested this Sunday, the third in a row by the communist regime’s police, when they went out to protest demanding the release of the prisoners for the anti-government marches of July 11, 2021, dissidents reported on social networks. […]
International travelers to Cuba fell 60% in 2021
Updated on 02/06/2022 11:45 am A total of 573,944 Travellers international visited Cuba in 2021, 60% less than the previous year, the official press reported this Sunday based on data from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI). The country, which opened its borders in mid-November after the closure forced by the pandemic, has […]
Miami Cubans play with the limits of the US embargo to send goods to the island
María is Cuban and has been in Miami, Florida for four years. To send clothes and medicines to relatives in his native country, he goes to a parcel agency, a kind of omnipresent business in the city that knows how to play with the limits of the US embargo on Cuba. The agencies have adapted […]
Biden Government Evaluates Digital Payments to Send Remittances to Cuba
The Democrat Government Joe Biden evaluates digital payments “as part of the innovative solutions” that it studies to facilitate the transfer of money from United Statessa CubaState Department deputy spokeswoman Jalina Porter said. Remittances, a breadwinner for many families and key to the Cuban economy, were restricted during the government of Republican Donald Trump (2017-2021) […]
Tears and tension for trial of 33 protesters of July 11 in Cuba tried for “sedition”
The tension was palpable before the court of Havana, where 33 July 11 protesters were tried this week for the crime of sedition. Terrified relatives awaited news in a nearby park despite the fact that several were arrested on Monday for shouting slogans such as “Justice” and “Freedom”. “On Monday I had a problem here, […]