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“Schools in the Countryside” Suspended Because of Dengue Fever / CID

Santa Clara, Cuba November 13, 2013. Officers of the Ministry of Education (MINED),   Central Region, at a government meeting on Monday the 11th, suspended the Schools in the Countryside program for November and December, because of the complicated epidemiological situation in the province. Guilfredo Martin Betancourt, a MINED official, said the province is experiencing … Continue reading ““Schools in the Countryside” Suspended Because of Dengue Fever / CID”

Adios to Schools in the Countryside / Yoani Sanchez

Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 24 July 2009 — The idea of combining study with work in high schools looked very good on paper. It had the air of an immortal future in the office where they turned it into a ministerial order. But reality, stubborn as always, had its own interpretation of the schools in the … Continue reading “Adios to Schools in the Countryside / Yoani Sanchez”

“The ‘Guajiro’ Who Doesn’t Have a Three-Wheeled Vehicle or a Mare Loses His Food in the Countryside”

The lack of fuel and state transportation affects passengers, students, and farmers in Guantánamo alike. 14ymedio, Dayamí Rojas, Guantánamo, September 26, 2026 – Outside the Guantánamo bus terminal, where travelers once looked for a bus route that would take them closer to their municipality, they now wait for an electric three-wheeler, a private car, a … Continue reading ““The ‘Guajiro’ Who Doesn’t Have a Three-Wheeled Vehicle or a Mare Loses His Food in the Countryside””

From Cuban Military Service to the Cuban Countryside: Granma Province Delivers Land in Usufruct to the ‘Demobilized’

The 2,269 hectares granted are for the cultivation of tobacco, coffee, cane and for livestock. 14ymedio, Havana, October 9, 2025 — The need to increase the labor force on the island, affected by mass emigration and disenchantment with State jobs, has led the government of Granma province to give land in usufruct to 300 young … Continue reading “From Cuban Military Service to the Cuban Countryside: Granma Province Delivers Land in Usufruct to the ‘Demobilized’”

Cuba, Fewer Teachers and More Indoctrination in Schools / Iván García

Iván García, Desde La Habana, 10 October 2024 — As always on the island, the official story is far removed from reality. A secondary school methodologist in a Havana municipality says that in meetings with senior officials from the Ministry of Education, political slogans predominated in an attempt to camouflage the disaster in the planning … Continue reading “Cuba, Fewer Teachers and More Indoctrination in Schools / Iván García”

Cuban Students Spent Three Weeks in a ‘School in the Countryside’ Without Leaving the City and Without Books

“They made them clean and do other jobs where they don’t have people to do them” 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 23 September 2024 — The educational authorities of Cuba had announced that the new “school in the countryside,” with which several grades began the 2024-2025 school year on September 2, would last only 15 … Continue reading “Cuban Students Spent Three Weeks in a ‘School in the Countryside’ Without Leaving the City and Without Books”

The Cuban Countryside Goes From Bad to Worse: Lack of Manpower and Low Productivity, the Communist Pairing

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 30 September 2023 — On a Cuban television program that usually deals with issues related to the economy, a surprising question was raised: Are we running out of workers in the field? Yes. You have heard correctly. Now it turns out that the Cuban countryside is having an employment problem, … Continue reading “The Cuban Countryside Goes From Bad to Worse: Lack of Manpower and Low Productivity, the Communist Pairing”

The Exodus From the Countryside to the City in Cuba Has a Face: Young Women of Reproductive Age

14ymedio, Havana, September 30, 2023 — Of the 994,000 Cubans registered as workers of the Ministry of Agriculture, only 60% are directly linked to production. That number – barely 596,400 farmers – is symptomatic: very few want to work in the island’s fields, marked by the lack of inputs, insecurity and crime. “Are we running … Continue reading “The Exodus From the Countryside to the City in Cuba Has a Face: Young Women of Reproductive Age”

Cuban Schools: Sexual Favors for Teachers in Exchange for Good Grades / Camilo Ernesto Olivera Peidro

HAVANA, Cuba , September 4, 2013, www.cubanet.org – Two police cars parked at the entrance to a high school. From one of them a man in civilian dress got out, and with long strides entered the school. Uniformed police also got out of the cars, but they remained outside the fence. The civilian went straight … Continue reading “Cuban Schools: Sexual Favors for Teachers in Exchange for Good Grades / Camilo Ernesto Olivera Peidro”

Prison Diary XLVIII. Raulist Politics: Schools Converted into Jails / Angel Santiesteban

One of the big boasts of those who took power in 1959 was to have converted military jails into schools; today, these schools are being converted into penitentiary centers. The old “schools in the countryside” were closed thanks to Raul Castro’s new politics, to save what was invested in the logistic means designated for those … Continue reading “Prison Diary XLVIII. Raulist Politics: Schools Converted into Jails / Angel Santiesteban”

Havana Chronicles: The Tulipán Market Closed: “They’ve Given the Order To Go to the March for Raúl”

I can imagine the number of onions, potatoes, mangoes, and peppers that won’t survive another day to be sold this Saturday. 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, May 23, 2026 / I need onions. I take advantage of the electricity and go down in the elevator, also carrying the garbage that has accumulated during the days of … Continue reading “Havana Chronicles: The Tulipán Market Closed: “They’ve Given the Order To Go to the March for Raúl””

Cuba: Voluntary Work, Compulsory Enthusiasm

How the ideal of the New Man turned into an empty rite that Cubans transformed with humor and resistance 14ymedio, Malaga, José A. Adrián Torres, October 25, 2025 — As a child in Spain, in the camps of the Catholic Scout Movement, I remember that there was also something called volunteer work. It was carried … Continue reading “Cuba: Voluntary Work, Compulsory Enthusiasm”

The Social Tragedy of Castroism

The failure has been so resounding that its prototypes of social miracles, Health, Education and Sport, have been removed from the shop window. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 16 February 2025 — The only achievements that will survive the dynastic totalitarianism of the Castro brothers and their putative son, current president Miguel Diaz-Canel, are propaganda and … Continue reading “The Social Tragedy of Castroism”

The National Crisis Forces Cuban Children To Work Says the Official Press

The newspaper Sierra Maestra assures that the child labor cases are the childrens’ own exceptions to “the complexity of context” 14ymedio, Havana, 19 June 2024 — One of the pillars of social welfare that for years the Cuban regime has defended as one of its greatest conquests collapsed this Monday, when the official press recognized … Continue reading “The National Crisis Forces Cuban Children To Work Says the Official Press”

Havana’s Agricultural Belt is Running Out of Food

14ymedio, Madrid, 3 November 3, 2023 — The authorities of Alquízar, in Artemisa, admitted what their inhabitants had been complaining about for months: the food sovereignty plan is a failure, and they so informed the vice president, Salvador Valdés Mesa, who attended a meeting where the production problems were enumerated. Nor could newspaper El Artemiseño … Continue reading “Havana’s Agricultural Belt is Running Out of Food”