The city and its grilles
In a famous essay, Alejo Carpentier defined Havana as “the city of columns.” Indeed, walking through places like the Calzada ...
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ETECSA lowers internet price in Wi-Fi areas in Cuba
The Cuban Telecommunications Enterprise S.A. (ETECSA) lowered the price of internet surfing in the island’s Wi-Fi areas and navigation rooms ...
Cuba in 2019: Carta Magna, tornado, king, temporary situations…
2019 has not been an easy year for Cuba. It began right at the beginning with a devastating tornado in ...
Authorities to ask Cubans to have more sex to increase birth rates
The Cuban authorities will launch a campaign in 2020 in which they will ask Cubans to have more sexual intercourse ...
More than 40 stores selling in dollars will operate in Cuba by the end of the year
Cuba will close 2019 with more than 40 stores selling in dollars in operation throughout the island, out of the ...
Central Bank of Cuba: cash can be drawn from accounts in dollars…when dollars are available
The Central Bank of Cuba notified that cash can be drawn from international currency accounts linked to debit cards that ...
Cuba to decide in 2021 if it approves same-sex marriage
Cuba will decide on the legalization of same-sex marriage during the updating of the new Family Code, whose text will ...
Díaz-Canel in National Assembly: “what’s most pressing is the monetary organization”
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel this Saturday assured the National Assembly that, although there is much to be resolved on the ...
ETECSA announces discounts on surfing through Nauta permanent accounts until January 3
The Cuban Telecommunications Enterprise, ETECSA, announced a promotion from December 23, 2019 to January 3, 2020 to surf the web ...
Cuba to study withdrawing subsidized food to residents abroad
The Cuban government will study the possibility of withdrawing the right to receive the monthly quota of subsidized food of ...
Giant African snail already affecting 56 Cuban municipalities
The giant African snail, a plague that has spread rapidly in Cuba, is already present in 56 of the island’s ...
Cuba overfulfills housing plan in 2019, but there is still a deficit
In 2019, 43,700 houses were completed in Cuba, as part of a program that plans to resolve the housing problem ...
Cuba readies a demanded draft law for animal protection
Cuba is preparing a draft law for animal protection that proposes the criminalization of mistreatment, establishing a control and identification ...
The economy and hope
They had spent several months working hard on their project. They had been discussing the idea since before graduating from ...
Cuba committed to computerization of its educational system
Although a large percentage of Cuban teachers belong to the analogical generation, the Ministry of Education (MINED) is openly committed ...
Theoretical-practical course for taxpayers begins in Havana
Organized by the National Tax Administration Office (ONAT), the Ministry of Education (MINED) and the National Association of Economists and ...
Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence: what is gained and what is lost
In Cuba, that which will be the last state regulation regarding sexist violence is being discussed. So far, it is ...
Sale of national beers prohibited in Cuban town’s private businesses
The authorities of the Cuban municipality of Cabaiguán prohibited the sale of the Cacique and Mayabe national beers as part ...
Quo Vadis? The currency collection stores in Cuba and the patching up of the economy
We already saw how the need arose to implement a partial dollarization of the economy. First, to have the necessary ...
Cuban-style Uber: young entrepreneurs determined to break the blockade
Mobile Internet got to Cuba a year ago and, just as it happened a decade ago in the rest of ...
Citizen and government awakening on Twitter: a year of mobile internet in Cuba
Answering WhatsApp messages from bed and posting photos on a bus was something unthinkable for Cubans until a year ago, ...
Two stores selling in CUC in Havana are already giving change in Cuban pesos
As of this Wednesday, two Havana stores belonging to the retail commercial network in convertible pesos (CUC) are already giving ...
ETECSA launches new mobile internet offer in Cuba
The Cuban Telecommunications Enterprise S.A. (ETECSA) will market, as of this Wednesday, a new internet package of 400 MB worth ...
New experiment in Cuban stores: is the CUC disappearing?
The Cuban government announced this Monday the implementation of an experiment in its retail commercial network in convertible pesos (CUC), ...
Problems continue with coffee supply in Cuba
The delays in the distribution of coffee in Cuba will continue during the month of December due to this industry’s ...
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