Superheroes in exchange for milk: bartering that alleviate shortages in Cuba using a cell phone

With 1,500 users on Telegram, “Dando y Dando” is one of the many collaborative groups where clothing, toys and other products are exchanged for food, toiletries and medicines that have disappeared from state stores and are very difficult to find on the black market. La entrada Superheroes in exchange for milk: bartering that alleviate shortages …

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Mike Pence in Miami: four more years to maintain sanctions on Cuba

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence asked this Thursday in Miami for another four years of Donald Trump’s government to maintain his commitment to the “freedom of the hemisphere” and sanctions against socialist governments. At a rally of some two hundred people at the Cuban Memorial in Tamiami Park, in southwest Miami-Dade County, Pence recalled Trump’s …

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Cuban president and other government members resume tours outside of Havana

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel along with other members of his government resumed government tours outside of Havana, a common practice during his term and which had stopped due to the coronavirus pandemic. The president, together with Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, and other officials, began a visit to Santiago de Cuba, …

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