English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
Travelers from Beijing are looking for destinations more associated with shopping or city tourism 14ymedio, Havana, 5 August 2024 — Cuba’s many sun and beach destinations may be a benefit for most of the tourists who come to the island, but when it comes to travelers from China, the authorities have had to come up … Continue reading “Trinidad is Cuba’s Heritage ‘Trap’ To Attract Chinese Tourists”
Two medical sources confirm to 14ymedio that they have received this instruction for their diagnoses 14ymedio, Miguel García, Holguín, 2 August 2024 — After two weeks of barely being able to get out of bed and an early morning receiving hydration serum in the Vladimir Ilich Lenin General University Hospital in Holguín, Isabel, 64, seems … Continue reading “‘Acute Fever Syndrome’ Is What Dengue Is Now Called In Cuba So As Not To Raise Alarm”
According to data from ONEI, as of December 31, 2023, 1,249,733 Cubans were outside the country 14ymedio, Madrid, July 19, 2024 — The Cuban Government acknowledged this Friday that the country has fewer than 10 million inhabitants and that the population continues to decrease. The latest data recorded by the National Bureau of Statistics and … Continue reading “The Regime Acknowledges That Cuba Has Fewer Than 10 million Inhabitants”
14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 18 July 2024 — The man is about 50 years old and carries two sacks loaded with empty soda, malt and beer cans. He heads to Lealtad Street, in Centro Habana, where the neighbors already know him, and sit on the threshold of their houses to watch his routine. The … Continue reading “Tin Can Carpets Are Back on the Streets of Havana”
14ymedio, Julio César Contreras, Cienfuegos, July 7, 2024 — Cienfuegos was never a tourist enclave of great importance like Havana or Varadero, but its architectural charm, more republican than colonial, attracted those looking for city tourism but without the bustle of the capital. In recent years, however, the number of travelers passing through the Pearl … Continue reading “The Economic Debacle of Cienfuegos, Cuba, Abandoned by International Tourism”
’Orlando’ exposes to ’Confidencial’ the spiral of corruption that involves a company registered in Miami and the Nicaraguan authorities 14ymedio, Madrid, 15 July 2024 — “This is a mafia, it’s like a Netflix or Hollywood movie.” This is how forceful a former official of the Administrative Company of International Airports of Nicaragua (EAAI) is, who, … Continue reading “A Former Nicaraguan Official Reveals How the “Mafia” of the Irregular Flights of Cubans Operates”
The maximum, with 11.3 million inhabitants, occurred in 2012, while at the end of the century there will be 5.5 million. 14ymedio, Madrid, July 15, 2024 — Cuba is one of the countries that shows the most negative population statistics in the UN demographic perspectives report. The document, prepared with a database that goes from … Continue reading “By 2100 Cuba Will Have Lost Half of Its Current Population, According to UN Forecasts”
The revolution is not in crisis. The revolution itself is a perennial crisis and a chronic illness. 14ymedio, Yunior García Aguilera, Madrid, July 2, 2024 — Fidel Castro did not want to call the great Cuban debacle of the 1990s a crisis. He preferred the euphemism “Special Period.” He used the term twenty times during … Continue reading “Never a Time of Peace for the Cuban Economy”
The Central Committee official and former diplomat in Bogotá died in a car crash 14ymedio, July 4, 2024, Madrid — Omar Rafael García Lazo, an official of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, died this Wednesday in a car crash when he was returning to Havana from a “work mission.” The announcement … Continue reading “Omar Rafael García Lazo, Cuban Repressor and ‘Persona Non Grata’ in Colombia, Dies in Car Crash”
“You have to take an aspirin when you drink Bucanero because it gives you a terrible headache.” 14ymedio, Madrid, 17 June 2024 — Cubans do not like their own country’s beer, which is both more expensive and not as good as the imported brands. This helps explain why the island is the second largest overseas … Continue reading “Better and Cheaper, Spanish Beer Beats Out Cuba’s Own Domestic Brands”
The virus is already spreading in 13 of the 15 Cuban provinces 14ymedio, Havana, 29 June 2024 — The Oropouche virus has spread throughout Cuba, fed by the poor hygiene of some neighborhoods, the accumulation of stagnant water due to the rainy season, and the constant blackouts. The authorities have accepted its presence in 13 … Continue reading “Havana Authorities Speak for the First Time About Oropouche Fever in the Capital”
The project, financed by Unicef and the Government of Extremadura, was also intended for Haiti and the Palestinian territories 14ymedio, Madrid, 19 June 2024 — Up to nine neonatal care units have been given to Cuba from a project of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Spain and the Extremadura Agency for International Cooperation … Continue reading “Cuba Receives a Donation From Spain as an Area Affected ‘By Natural Disasters and Conflicts’”
According to experts, it is a creative response to the environmental crisis IPS (via 14ymedio), Havana, 6 June 2024 — Farmer Ivonne Moreno sees permaculture, in addition to a philosophy of life, as a sustainable model to produce food, reduce the environmental footprint and project sustainable communities in urban and rural areas of Cuba. These … Continue reading “A Woman Farmer Aspires to Produce Sustainable Food in Cuba”
14ymedio/EFE, Madrid, 6 June 2024 — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has included Cuba for the first time in its report on severe child poverty. The text, published on Wednesday, indicates that 9% of the island’s child population suffers from severe poverty; that is, they have a maximum of two of the eight foods … Continue reading “Cuba Enters the UNICEF Report on Severe Child Poverty”
In December 2014, Raúl Castro and Obama surprised everyone with the news that relations between both countries would begin to normalize. 14ymedio, Yunior García Aguilera, Madrid, May 24, 2024 — The last decade in Cuba is, perhaps, the one that has seen the most changes in half a century. However, we have the feeling that … Continue reading “Cuba: Change So That Everything Remains the Same”
