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Reinventing Everyday Life in Cuba
The global COVID-19 outbreak has given rise to many testimonies. Some people have experienced one of the toughest moments in their lives, others have faced this time with more optimism and have found creative ways to live and find a solution to the crisis.
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Cuba: From Politics to COVID-19 and Vice-Versa
COVID-19 came and imposed itself on the reality that preceded it, and it will leave us a reality that it isn’t really at fault for. Human behavior, collective consciousness, common sense, political decisions and their benefactors, continue to be what has the last word at the end of the day.
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Life Alone from My Window in Santa Clara, Cuba
Sitting out on my balcony became a routine and a privilege. I started taking photos outside of my four walls, of the things I saw and heard from my window.
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Cuban Government Legally Recognizes that Paulo has Two Mothers
Almost a year after beginning the process in the US for registering their son as a Cuban citizen, Dachelys Valdes Moreno and Hope Bastian finally received his birth certificate on June 18th, which features both of them as his mothers.
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Details on Reopening Cuba Tourism post-Covid-19
Cuba has announced that it will begin lifting restrictions post-Covid-19, in three staggered phases. Tourism, the country’s main economic activity, has been significantly affected by the pandemic and the Cuban people’s main concern is that new cases will be imported, once it reopens.
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On an Island of Lines, Lobster Is Only a Tale
Not even lobster boat owners and their crews can eat lobster out on the high sea, the interviewee replies. He follows this up and tells me that everything that is caught needs to be handed over to ACOPIO (Cuba’s State purchasing entity) centers in offshore waters, near the cays.
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A Cuban Going Round and Round!
A line in Cuba isn’t the same as a line anywhere else in the world. Lines in Cuba are commotions of desperate people with bloodshot and worried eyes, on the edge of their nerve to see if they will make it to the counter before everything runs out, or everything does run out and nothing is left.
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The Cuban Vote in 2020: Rejection of Trumpism or “Somos Continuidad”?
Contrary to what some Cuban officials have suggested, there are few signs that opposition to the Trump administration’s Cuba policy will drive strong anti-Trump Cuban-American turnout at the polls. Why? And what could make that attitude change?
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In Cuba, Chicken Doesn’t Believe in Applause
Ever since the COVID-19 lockdown officially started in Cuba, a lot has been discussed about help, and the lack of it, for the people who are fighting the virus in health institutions on a daily basis.
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A Cuban Doctor on New York’s Frontline
Gabriela Sanchez-Bravo left Cuba with her family in 2005. She has now received a degree from the Upstate Medical University and is studying the 1st year of her Family Medicine residency at the Institute for Family Health in New York.
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A Cuban Woman Describes How She Got Stranded in Guyana
Yiset Lorenzo left Havana and headed to Georgetown on Tuesday March 10th. It was the first time that she had flown abroad. On that day, Cuba still hadn’t confirmed any positive cases of COVID-19, Guyana hadn’t either.
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Urgent Recommendations to Support Cuba’s Private Sector
The pandemic’s aftershocks have hurt over 26,000 renters, over 500 Airbnb experience hosts and over 52,000 drivers in Cuba.
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“Stay at Home” and an Unfamiliar Havana
“Stay at home and protect yourself”, protect us all from the terrible disease that has been roaming Havana and Cuba’s streets, ever since March 11th.
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Cuba’s “Temporary” Crisis and Coronavirus: Don’t Think About the Future
The fact that reality here in Cuba exceeds fiction is already too familiar. This time, it looks to me like reality has gone a little too far. If it was a matter of just overcoming reality, we wouldn’t have to be in such a tight fix.
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Seamstresses after the Virus Hit Cuba: from Dresses to Masks
Up until recently, the Procle workshop was filled with the sound of sewing machines, as well as Caridad and Zademys’ chattering and laughter. However, customer service has been put on the backburner with the new situation created by Coronavirus.
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A Propensity to Hug and Coronavirus
There is a skill in his heart that nobody had to teach him as soon as he started walking: the language of hugging.
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Succumbing to COVID-19 or Anxiety
The day Zammys Jimenez left Atlanta, only 7 had tested positive for COVID-19 at Fulton county, and there were 121 confirmed cases across the state of Georgia.
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Coronavirus “Case #78” in Cuba Speaks Out
Ruben Dario Herrera was assigned bed 22 at the isolation center in Santa Clara. On March 27th, he officially became case #78 confirmed with COVID-19, according to the report issued by the Cuban Ministry of Health.
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Tips for Coping with Fake Coronavirus News
The serious consequences of circulating fake news ranges from defamation to even swaying public opinion or raising social concerns. Unfortunately, we aren’t aware a lot of the time of just how much we contribute to its dissemination.
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Coronavirus in Cuba, Social Symptoms
It’s Friday March 20th, 1 PM. Some twenty confirmed cases of Coronavirus have been reported. TV doesn’t talk about anything else. The city continues to be slow and vulnerable like it is every day.
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Italy in Its Darkest Hour
Italy had been one of the first countries to cancel its air operations with China, when it made any sense to still identify COVID-19 as “Chinese pneumonia” or “Wuhan fever”.
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Coronavirus and the Traumas of a Cuban Living in Cadiz, Spain
This afternoon, I was overwhelmed by sadness when I went to the supermarket. I wanted to compare it to former experiences, because every time a new emotion blossoms within me, I try and compare it to my life in Cuba. At that moment, I wondered whether it was within my right to take photos of empty display cabinets. “A trauma of the period I have always lived in,” I could say.
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Cuban Gov. Authorities Meet with Entrepreneurs and Academics in Havana
Organized by Havana University’s Business Network and the Public Administration Academy, the first “Governance, from a public-private alliance perspective in Cuba” conference took place in the capital.
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Potatoes in Cuba: Short Term Availability for Some Provinces
Potatoes are the highest priority crop grown in Cuba.
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Animal Protection in Santa Clara, Cuba: Popular Tradition Driven by a Donkey
Leydi, Javier, Lizandra and Gustavo agree on the fact that social media has been a driving force in the animal protection struggle. Not only to give visibility to what is being done in every region or to mobilize people for concrete events, but also to bring people together and to send messages to them.
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Pornography and the Internet: Its Impact on Cuban Society
In Cuba, the increase in Internet access has meant a parallel increase in the consumption of pornography. It still remains far from topping the list of countries with the highest data traffic within the statistics of the Pornhub platform.
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Suffocating… Afraid of Our Own Country
A person shouldn’t be afraid to go outside, to show themselves, to publish or comment on something. But so much suffocating is making us afraid of our own country.
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The Only Two Women to Announce Cuban Baseball Games
Everybody crowned the young 21-year-old woman as the first female commentator in the history of the National Baseball Series, maybe because it’s not at all normal to hear a woman announcing a baseball game in Cuba.
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Home Delivery Services on the Rise in Cuba
There is no data to tell us how many people are currently using food delivery services on the island, however, it is becoming more and more common, especially in Havana.
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Eco-Deco Taller: an Eco-Friendly Carpentry Service in Cuba
Shallya Sanchez is a Cuban businesswoman who rescued the carpentry tradition passed down from her grandfather and reinvented it by recycling materials.
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Our Neighbor’s Broken Plates
It’s 11 PM and the building doesn’t have any electricity. I fan my son and try to calm him down, but the shouting continues to come in through the space between the blinds and you can hear it all as if it were in the living room.
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UN Rapporteurs Request Information on Alleged Slavery of Cuban Doctors
They express their concern with the punishment of defector doctors, who are prevented from returning to the island for 8 years “and relatives who remain in Cuba are subject to being targeted and suffering repercussions from government bodies”.
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Cubans in the Snow
I think of Cuban friends who are in the snow, far from this land. Some of them may find happiness in being away, being in a different setting, a scene of foreign films.
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Cuban Television… Does It Belong to the People?
Cuban bureaucracy needs to understand that TV doesn’t belong to them, that TV belongs to the people, and that it can’t be privatized, by constitutional order, which includes the State and its bureaucrats; it can’t be seized from the people.
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Mobilization Initiatives in Cuba Driven by Access to Mobile Data
This list, which is neither exhaustive nor conclusive, includes only several of the most genuine expressions that have been produced through social networks in Cuba this year 2019, increasingly becoming a means of expression and citizen consultation.
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What Would the World Be Like if Men Had Periods?
If men had periods, at least the first day would be declared a holiday. I don’t know about other women, but I hate working the first day of my period.
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