Dollar back in Cuba as pandemic and US sanctions hammer economy

The communist government has been forced to allow citizens to spend US currency at special shops, formalising a split between haves and have-nots On Paseo del Prado, a boulevard in Havana’s colonial district, dozens of people waited expectantly as the staff raised the shutters to open a tatty but revamped shop. Soon after, Alejandro Domínguez, …

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Coronavirus in Cuba: 72 patients were discharged on a day with 48 new infections

Help us keep OnCuba alive On the thirteenth day without deaths, 48 people were diagnosed yesterday with the Sars-CoV-2 virus in Cuba, according to the information offered by the health authorities, which highlights the number of discharges: 72. The new positive cases are Cubans. 39 of them, were related to confirmed cases, and in nine …

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Cuba restarts school year on September 1st, except for Havana

The Minister of Education, Ena Elsa Velázquez, said this Friday on the Mesa Redonda television program that the school year will resume in all the country’s provinces on September 1st, with the exception of Havana, given its current epidemiological situation. She reported that managers and workers are returning to educational institutions in a first phase …

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