English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
14ymedio, Havana, 25 May 2022 — The price of hard currency in Cuba is plummeting on the informal market. Not only has the freely convertible currency (MLC) fallen, but also the dollar and even the euro. “Last week the MLC rate was 125 pesos, but I could only sell at 10 to 110 pesos to … Continue reading “The Price of Hard Currency Drops on the Black Market in Cuba”
14ymedio, Havana, 27 April 2022 — The state press agency of Ukraine, Ukrinform, is blocked in Cuba according to the report of the Cuban political scientist, Alexei Padilla, on Facebook, and published in Diario de Cuba. The site isn’t accessible from the Island without VPN (a Virtual Private Network)*, although the Cuban Government has not made any … Continue reading “Ukraine’s State News Agency is Blocked in Cuba”
14ymedio, Madrid, 7 April 2022 — The Cuba-US Agricultural Conference closed this Thursday with the request of US producers to expand trade “without the policies that hinder it,” according to one of them, Douglas Keesling, an agricultural businessman and representative of the Kansas State Farm Coalition. Among the 25 members of the US group are … Continue reading “In Addition to Chicken, US Farmers Want to Sell Wheat, Corn, Beans, Milk and Beer to Cuba”
14ymedio, José Conrado Rodríguez Alegre, Trinidad, Cuba, 2 April 2022 — The person who is writing to you is a Cuban Catholic priest, pastor of the parish of Paula, in the city of Trinidad. Since February 24 I have been waiting for the news that arrives from Ukraine and I do not stop praying for that … Continue reading “Open Letter From a Cuban Priest to Vladimir Putin”
14ymedio, Madrid, 28 March 2022 — The Cuba-Petroleum Union (Cupet) justified this Saturday the shortage of gasoline and diesel by the 20% increase in consumption in March compared to January and February. The statement from the state monopoly adds that the demand grew up to 65% last week, which led the authorities to ration fuel … Continue reading “Cuba’s State Fuel Company Attributes the Shortage to a 65 Percent Increase in Demand”
14ymedio, Madrid, 28 February 2022 — The closure of European airspace to Russian planes is one of the first collateral consequences for Cuba of the invasion of Ukraine. The Island remains, for now, without Russian tourists, its only rising market in recent years. The Association of Tour Operators of Russia (Ator) has reported this Monday … Continue reading “With the European Sky Closed to Russian Planes, Cuba Loses its Last Tourists”
14ymedio, Havana, 27 February 2022 — Juan González, the assistant to US President Joe Biden for the Western Hemisphere, predicted an impact for Cuba, after the economic sanctions are applied to Russia after the invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Last Friday, the 27 countries of the European Union, the United States and Canada announced … Continue reading “Economic Sanctions Against Russia Will Have an Impact on Cuba”
14ymedio/EFE, Havana/Moscow, 13 January 2022 — Russia has upped the stakes in its standoff with the West and warned that it is not ruling out a military deployment in Cuba and Venezuela if the United States ramps up pressure on the Ukraine issue. It occurred on Thursday when Sergei Ryabkov, deputy foreign minister and representative … Continue reading “Moscow Does Not Rule Out Military Deployment in Cuba and Venezuela if US ‘Provokes Russia’”
14ymedio, Havana, 11 August 2021 — Reserve Colonel Santiago Lorenzo Hernández Cáceres died this Wednesday in Havana at the age of 82. His death marks the seventh high-ranking military official that dies in Cuba in less than a month. The cause of death has not been released in in any of the cases. According to … Continue reading “Santiago Lorenzo Hernandez Caceres, Another High Ranking Military, Dies in Cuba”
14ymedio, Yaiza Santos, Madrid, July 31, 2021 — The singer, composer and music producer Pavel Urkiza was born in Kiev (Ukraine), but right away, when he was three months old, he was taken to Havana where he grew up. His parents, both engineers, were part of the first Cuban student brigade in the Soviet Union. … Continue reading “The Change in Cuba Has No Turning Back”
14ymedio, Havana, 12 July 12, 2021 — Injuries, threats and arbitrary arrests were the culmination of massive and unprecedented protests that took place across Cuba on Sunday, a story that made the front pages of the world’s newspapers today. Among those arrested or attacked was Associated Press photographer Ramon Espinosa, an action that was condemned … Continue reading “The Eyes of the World Are on Cuba”
14ymedio, José Azel, Miami, March 9, 2021 — Reflexive control is a disinformation strategy developed in Russia, in which “specifically prepared information is transmitted to opponents to encourage them to voluntarily make a decision desired by the initiator of the action.” All of the available original literature on reflexive control is written in Russian, a … Continue reading “Russia’s Reflexive Control in Cuba and Venezuela”
14ymedio, Havana, 21 January 2021 — The Cuban government hopes that the new US president, Joe Biden, will “quickly” reverse the hard line towards the island of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and resume the thaw initiated by Barack Obama in 2014. This was stated to Reuters by Carlos Fernández de Cossío, the top Cuban Foreign … Continue reading “Havana Hopes Biden Will Reverse US Policy Toward Cuba ‘Rapidly’”
14ymedio, Havana, 18 December 2020 — The increase in the electricity rates, which starts with the monetary unification on January 1, has reminded Cubans recently that a good alternative could be the installation of solar panels, which were promoted so much a few years ago by the Government. The reality is, however, that individuals cannot … Continue reading “Solar Energy is Cheaper but There Are No Panels for Individuals in Cuba”
14ymedio, Havana, 5 December 2019 — A campaign in favor of temporarily suspending the sending of remittances, packages, telephone recharges and trips to the Island is giving Cuban exiles a lot to talk about. The proposal has generated an intense controversy where each party expresses their opinions with passion. Those who promote the initiative argue … Continue reading “The Debate on the Temporary Cutting Off of Remittances to Cuba is Heated in Miami”
