HAVANA TIMES – Cuba has a long history of blackouts. Dating from the 1960s right up until our present day. When I was a little girl, blackouts were so common that nobody used […]
Cuba: Shameful Blackouts in Cuba
US Makes it Harder for Cubans to Send Money Home
HAVANA TIMES – The Trump administration ordered Monday a new broadside against Cuban families, further hindering remittances from the US. The candidate for reelection makes no waves about hurting ordinary Cubans when tightening […]
Cuba: Apartheid in Cuba Induced by Dollarization
HAVANA TIMES – The government’s strategy to dollarize part of Cuba’s retail market is another clear sign of its dependence on emigration. It calls many of these same emigrants “worms” and “counter-revolutionaries.” […]
Cuba Discovers a New Source of Revenue
HAVANA TIMES – Tourism, family remittances and retail sales are down, all negatively affecting government coffers in Cuba. However, the Communist Party leadership has found a new source of funds to help […]
Where Will We End Up in Cuba?
The current situation is worrying again, especially in Havana, where new positive cases of COVID-19 are appearing every day. We have gone back to phase 0 of the recovery process, all thanks […]
Self-Responsibility Is Key to Face Cuba’s New Outbreak
There has been a new outbreak of COVID-19 in Cuba. It wasn’t expected for another few months, but it came before and has once again put plans and economic life processes, etc. […]
Cuba: Biden Presidency Won’t Return to Obama Era Cuba Relations
With the deterioration of U.S.-Cuba relations during the Trump administration, much of the agricultural initiatives developed during Obama’s Cuban Thaw were reversed, new restrictions were introduced, and the economic embargo was strengthened. […]
Is the Pandemic Over in Cuba?
As long as the opposite is not proven, the daily figures that Cuba reports officially on the Covid-19 are real. Based on this premise, the work carried out since the appearance of […]
Cuba’s Currencies: CUP and CUC vs. USD
If there was something people couldn’t talk about when I was a little girl, it was the dollar. Only foreigners could buy things in this currency. If anyone was caught with green […]
Cuba: There Was Food But Not for Us
When the sun rose this Monday, about 250 people were already waiting outside the Boyeros y Camagüey store in Havana to buy food and toiletries with foreign currency. Since last week, when the […]
