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Cuba

You want lower prices? Put out more cold beers.

Ernesto Perez Castillo Jul 31, 2019
The thing is that creating a law for this and one for that, and later a law for something else, is always the fastest and easiest solution.
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Cuba

Surrounded by salty sea water, and yet we import the salt

Ernesto Perez Castillo Jul 17, 2019
Cuba, surrounded by the sea, has an estimated potential of 78 million metric tons of salt per cubic kilometer of seawater on its coasts.
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Cuba

Havana’s shiny new garbage trucks and the same old sanitation workers

Ernesto Perez Castillo Jun 26, 2019
Large and gleaming orange vehicles have been seen crisscrossing Havana recently. They are the first 24 modern garbage trucks that have arrived from Japan.
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Cuba

It is a stupid bomb that punishes regular people

Ernesto Perez Castillo Jun 12, 2019
The news that not one more cruise ship loaded with American tourists would dock in any port on the Island crossed the 90-mile puddle with the speed of light.
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Cuba

When pigs fly

Ernesto Perez Castillo May 29, 2019
Cuba's pork issue -- but also that of the oil, flour and everything else -- is a crisis that did not begin the day the last chicken left the refrigerators.
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Cuba

The bogeyman returns, or the never ending Special Period

Ernesto Perez Castillo May 1, 2019
A ghost hovers over Havana haunting the entire Island: It’s the specter of returning to the Special Period. The question now become where do we find the cause of this crisis?
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Cuba

Cuba’s constitutional reform: Yes, but plenty of nos

Ernesto Perez Castillo Feb 27, 2019
Everything ran smoothly on Sunday in spite of the fact that more than one million Cuban voters went to the polls to express themselves, and not in the way they were told to do so.
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Cuba

When self-employment is a sin

Ernesto Perez Castillo Dec 19, 2018
Cuba's biggest problem for the foreseeable future is the many self-employed workers without social security and no retirement to count on.
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Cuba

Havana’s unanswered transportation problems

Ernesto Perez Castillo Nov 21, 2018
Far from solving problems, the new law is doing just the opposite: creating more disorder, more corruption, and more discomfort.
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Cuba

Cuba deserves ‘a better opposition’

Ernesto Perez Castillo Oct 17, 2018
Allow me the luxury of dreaming of a news cooperative, says the author, a newspaper that is not a spokesperson for any official institution, but of the people who walk the everyday…
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