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HAVANA - This time I did not miss the opportunity to meet Louis A. Pérez Jr. (New York, 1943), whose investigative work of more than 30 years has been recently released to the Cuban…
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Cuba has not escaped notorious corruption cases in the past that scandalized the country. Probably, the little that is known of those cases is as bad as knowing nothing of them. And the…
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After decades of trying to replace imports, Cuba remains highly dependent on them. Imports provide most of what Cuba needs to stay afloat. The goods brought in by ordinary citizens are…
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Public funds devote no less than $1 billion a year to the importation of food; consequently, the national production of food is a priority. It is one of the many reasons the concern…
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Home consumption of electricity continues to rise in Cuba, an unmistakable symptom of prosperity. But that dependence is putting additional pressure on the national system of…
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Producing sugar has a lot in common with executing a good double play in baseball. During the 2015-2016 sugar harvest, only two Cuban provinces, Sancti Spíritus and Ciego de Ávila,…
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The first Americans at the La Conchita farm, 10 kilometers south of Puerto Padre, will soon usher a new stage in the lives of Moisés Mora Sicilia and his family, who, for the past two…
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The conservationist drive was expressed in Cuba's public spending for the preservation of the environment, which rose from 278 million dollars to 488 million dollars in a five-year…
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