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An aging population clouds Cuba’s future
HAVANA TIMES—Cuba's demographic profiles reveal an aging country, with fewer births than deaths, an enormous emigration of young people of working age, and an environment of shortages…
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Sugar industry collapse in Cuba
Cuba's sugar industry, a symbol of its economy and culture for over a century, is experiencing a historic collapse. For the first time since the 19th century, annual raw sugar…
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Is there racism in Cuba? History and contemporary times
All countries have unique racial contexts and face their own problems based on their circumstances. In Cuba, because of the ethnic diversity of our population, many are quick to assert…
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José ‘Pepe’ Mujica: The revolutionary who never surrendered his ideals
In his condolence message on the occasion of the notable Uruguayan leader, José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, the Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel, emphasised: ‘His extraordinary life recalls the…
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The Pope, the one-drop rule, and the ghosts of New Orleans
The white smoke had barely cleared from the Vatican chimney when a genealogical tremor made its way across the Atlantic. Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, formerly a…
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The 18th Brumaire of Javier Milei
‘History repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce”
–Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
From Tragedy to Farce, from Farce to Grotesque
If Marx had lived to…
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Cuba’s ‘slaves’: Doctors around the world
Isn't it strange that the United States government is concerned about fair pay for workers from another country when it doesn't pay its workers fairly?
This oddity is evident in U.S.…
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Hitler’s first 100 days — and Trump’s
The fascism unleashed upon Germany beginning in January 1933 with the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor, the youngest ever, and that which unfolded within America with the second…
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Billboard critical of Cuban American pols goes up in Miami
A recently formed dark-money group, Keep Them Honest, is launching an ad campaign in Miami aimed at pressuring Republican politicians, specifically Secretary of State Marco Rubio and…
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Hardly anyone dries rice on the road anymore
On the sunniest and best-preserved stretches of the Camagüey highway, once fought over by rice farmers, you can barely see a few drying crews today. The rice left to dry on the roads…
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