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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”

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”

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”

The Communist Regime Does Not Know What to Do Against the Demographic Winter

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 15 February 2023 — For some time, Cuban communists have been facing a serious problem that, due to its permanence and worsening, they don’t know how to address. We are referring to the rapid demographic aging that has made Cuba, with more than 20% of the population over 65 years … Continue reading “The Communist Regime Does Not Know What to Do Against the Demographic Winter”

‘The Russians Have Already Arrived’ to Take Possession of One of the Largest Sugar Mills in Cuba

14ymedio, Mercedes García, Sancti Spíritus, 15 February 2023 — Jatibonico’s colossus no longer roars as it used to. Instead of the rattling of its machinery, the Uruguay sugar mill is silent and prepares for the arrival of its new managers, a Russian company that will try to revitalize what in its day was one of … Continue reading “‘The Russians Have Already Arrived’ to Take Possession of One of the Largest Sugar Mills in Cuba”

A Man ‘Under the Concrete Slabs’ of Santiago de Cuba High School is Still Trapped

14ymedio, Havana, 25 August 2022 — One person was injured during the collapse that occurred this Wednesday in the old building of the Antonio Maceo Grajales Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE), in Santiago de Cuba The rescue team also tried to locate another individual, allegedly trapped between several cement slabs after the collapse … Continue reading “A Man ‘Under the Concrete Slabs’ of Santiago de Cuba High School is Still Trapped”

High School Vandalized to Extract Materials Collapses in Santiago de Cuba

14ymedio, Havana, 7 July 2022 — A man was rescued from the rubble of what was the Antonio Maceo Grajales Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE), in Santiago de Cuba, this Wednesday night, after the collapse of a disused and ruined structure, which had been vandalized for years to extract construction materials. The news … Continue reading “High School Vandalized to Extract Materials Collapses in Santiago de Cuba”