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Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  9 posts 0 comments

Cuba

Hanging by the thread of dependence abroad

Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  Aug 8, 2017
"I think we have to look for a formula for the State not to pay for imported food what it can buy from its own farmers," says Eduardo Martínez, a peasant in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. "How…
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Cuba

‘The honey contained no drugs when it left Cuba’

Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  Apr 21, 2016
With more than 45 years experience in foreign trade, Cubaexport has earned prestige among the companies in Japan, Canada, Europe and the Americas that specialize in honey, coffee, cocoa…
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‘You don’t build a cultural industry by centralizing ideas’

Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  Feb 29, 2016
Osvaldo Pestana Montpeller (Montos), Cuba's “stellar” comic book artist, went from an irreverent boy who scribbled on any blank page that fell into his hands -- the classical doodler --…
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Cuba

Love those cigars!

Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  Oct 30, 2015
Cigar production is the fourth economic sector that contributes to Cuba's gross domestic product. The tobacco tradition goes back several centuries, when successive waves of immigrants…
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Cuba

The wood of the future?

Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  Aug 22, 2015
For the partners in La Esperanza, Cuba's only urban cooperative producing plastic elements, the idea of creating a material that looks like wood, a material seemingly out of a Jules…
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Cuba

Urban cooperatives in Cuba: Yes — but no

Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  Jun 12, 2015
“It’s like stepping simultaneously on the accelerator and the brakes,” a workman at one of the almost 500 cooperatives legally operating in Cuba describes the situation. Another one…
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Cuba

Wi-Fi zones in Cuba: Internet is in the air

Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  May 28, 2015
With the antennas in Trinidad working full blast for nearly a month, and the town of Yayabo about to climb on the wagon of wireless Wi-Fi, the province of Sancti Spiritus places two of…
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Cuba

A safari to the era of sugar

Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  May 15, 2015
Five of the 13 surviving "haciendas" that still survive in the Valley of the Mills in south-central Cuba, will open their doors to a form of hospitality that, while betting on…
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Bee honey ‘made in Cuba’

Gisselle Morales Rodríguez  May 5, 2015
People in the Old Continent pay as much as 3,000 euros for a single ton of ecological honey, free from chemical residues, processed and sold at a plant in the city of Sancti Spiritus in…
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