America Cuba The second anniversary of the widespread protests of 11 July 2021 has been followed by police manoeuvres, increasingly visible in Cuba, with surveillance carried out by uniformed policemen and trucks carrying oldiers
America Cuba Garbage on the streets of several cities has become part of the urban landscape as the sanitation services are unable to regularly collect due to a lack of machinery, inputs, fuel, human resources; only 10% of collected garbage is recycled
America Cuba As Cuban Telecommunications Company announced a rise in rates, plans and mobile packages to prices unaffordable for most Cubans, the pro-government University Student Federation openly rejected the new rates, stating they limit the right to education
America Cuba Along Havana’s central highway, 114th Street market offers a imported groceries: Washington apples and grapes, garlic from California, Turkish produce; shoppers; almost nobody living off a local salary can afford them, but nobody grows them either
America Cuba Santa Clara, a 17th-century convent in the heart of Old Havana home to the first cloistered nuns in Cuba, has been restored and opened as a hub for preserving the city’s soul, training young craftsmen and artisans in heritage conservation techniques