English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
As the results of their proposals have been the same, perhaps it makes no sense to discuss how they carried them out. 14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, Havana, 26 April 2024 — Any attempt to theorize about methodological issues in the way of governing is usually dismissed when the results are the same. That is one of … Continue reading “Cuba: Gradual Process Versus Voluntarism, a Matter of Methodology”
The coverage of teaching positions was at 84.4% in 2024, which represents approximately 26,871 vacant positions throughout the country. 14ymedio, Havana, 2 April 2025 — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel wants Cuban teachers to return to school, to be better trained, to learn languages, and to teach “quality” classes. The problem, the same reason teachers fail … Continue reading “For a Monthly Salary Equivalent to $15, Díaz-Canel Demands ‘Quality’ From Cuban Teachers”
An article in ‘Granma’ describes the bleak outlook for the sugar harvest in Guantánamo province. 14ymedio, Havana, 18 March 2025 — The International Agroindustrial Food Fair of Cuba began this Monday in Havana, at a time when national agriculture is experiencing a deep crisis and desperately needs foreign investors to revive production. Proof of this … Continue reading “At the Agroindustrial Fair, Cuba Seeks Foreign Investors for Its Ruined Agriculture”
14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation Y, Havana, 23 January 2025 — Cuba had been removed from the United States’ list of countries sponsoring terrorism for just six days. This Monday, after Donald Trump took office, the island’s regime was once again on a list that carries serious diplomatic and financial restrictions. Havana has barely had time … Continue reading “The Havana Regime Swallows Hard Before the New Winds Blowing in Washington”
“The optimists, the group in which we revolutionaries belong, believe that the important thing is to have conquered the test,” said the president, without specifying what that supposed victory is. 14ymedio, Havana, 14 December 2024 — In response to Cuba being kept on the US list of countries sponsoring terrorism for another year, President Miguel … Continue reading “President Díaz-Canel Calls on Cubans To Join a ‘March of the Fighting People’ Against the US”
Police found 168 boxes of Occidental Rum, from a state-owned company, diverted to the black market 14ymedio, Havana, 6 December 2024 — Private businesses are the main target of the persecution by inspectors in the “national exercise against crime and illegalities,” but they also do not escape cases of corruption in state entities, such as … Continue reading “Cuba’s Pre-University Students Are Mobilized To Detect ‘Illegalities in the Self-Employed Sector’”
Two people from San Antonio del Sur are still missing: Kaliannis Hernández Urgelléz, 35, and Orlenis Gamboa Pérez, 42 14ymedio, Havana, 31 October 2024 — The United Nations System in Cuba will dedicate 33,235,167 dollars to assist the half million victims of Hurricane Oscar in Guantánamo. The emergency recovery plan, for which six million dollars … Continue reading “The UN Will Dedicate 33 Million Dollars to Repairing the Damage of Hurricane Oscar in Cuba”
Unicef donates 1.5 tons of medicines to Cuba for those affected by Hurricane Oscar 14ymedio, Havana, October 26, 2024 — A first donation of 1.5 tons of “medicines and consumable material” from Unicef arrived this Saturday in Havana to be delivered to the victims of Hurricane Oscar, which left seven dead in the eastern province … Continue reading “Cuba: The Methodist Church of Guantánamo Welcomes Dozens of People Evacuated After the Floods”
UNE announced the “total disconnection” of the Electrical System The Antonio Guiteras power plant had scheduled maintenance, but it did not last until the scheduled date With the country in darkness and the economy paralyzed, Marrero says that Cuba “is not yet in a bottomless abyss” 14ymedio, Havana, 18 October 2024 — The Cuban Ministry … Continue reading “Cuba Will Remain Without Electricity at Least Until Saturday”
The ’politics of the cadres’ is ’the Achilles heel’ of the Party, and food production is ’the stone in our shoe’ 14ymedio, Madrid, 6 October 2024 — On Wednesday he was in Las Tunas, on Thursday in the Havana municipality of Diez de Octubre, on Friday in Santa Clara, and on Saturday back in Havana … Continue reading “Cuban President Díaz-Canel Admits That the US ‘Blockade’ Is Not Responsible for All the Problems”
Each municipality will be sponsored by a ministry so that garbage collection is carried out regularly 14ymedio, Havana, 4 October 2024 — That Cuban PresidentMiguel Díaz-Canel walks through the neighborhoods of Havana to admire the titanic garbage dumps populating the city seems more like a rumor than a reality. This Friday, the official press reports … Continue reading “Cuban President Díaz-Canel Analyzes the ‘Contingency’ of Garbage in the Cleanest Neighborhoods of Havana”
The official press woke up this Friday with alerts about the problem in almost all the provincial newspapers 14ymedio, Havana, 4 October 2024 — Along with blackouts and shortages, the lack of water has completed the triad of the crisis in Cuba during the last year. The official press woke up on Friday with alerts … Continue reading “With Considerable Damage to the Hydraulic Network, the Water Supply in Cuba Remains in Crisis”
Some residents are forced to pay 3,000 to 5,000 pesos to receive water from tanker trucks, according to the official press 14ymedio, Madrid, July 15, 2024 — The reservoirs of Pinar del Río have abundant water, with 68% of capacity, according to Rolando González García, general director of the Hydraulic Use Company, just a month … Continue reading “Thousands of Cubans in Pinar Del Río Are Still Without Water Despite the Millions Invested by the Cuban Government”
With the economy on the rocks and the usual voluntarism, nothing will stop the province from celebrating July 26 in style. 14ymedio, Havana, June 20, 2024 — A delegation of ministers and senior officials arrived in Sancti Spíritus this Wednesday to carry out a government visit that soon turned into a hunt for “illegal MSMEs” … Continue reading “Cuba’s Deputy Prime Minister Ramiro Valdés Visits Sancti Spíritus to ‘Put His Foot Down’ Against Illegalities”
The deplorable condition of the nursing home of the municipality of Primero de Enero was what most horrified the prime minister 14ymedio, Havana, April 20, 2024 — With an entourage of eleven ministers, three deputy prime ministers and twenty senior officials, Manuel Marrero left Ciego de Ávila this Friday dissatisfied with the results of the … Continue reading “‘We Have To Get Our Act Together’, Says Cuban Prime Minister Marrero in a Visit to Ciego Avila”
