Pedro Espinosa reports in 14yMedio from Havana via Translating Cuba: The ‘Swimming Pool’ Pothole in Havana Where Children Bathe Has Been Open for Several Years Open and full of puddles, the hole has been there for “a thousand years.” In reality, the neighbors say, it’s been about five, but it gives the impression of having
After 64 years of the socialist revolution, the communist Castro dictatorship is not only unable to provide food and medicine, its "revolution" can't even provide water. On Saturday, a group of women in Havana fed up with being deprived of the most basic necessities for human survival took to the streets in protest. While it
Lynn Cruz writes from Havana via Diario de Cuba: 25 years Without Water: Calle Melilla in the Havana District of El Rincón 'When we complain, what they send us are inspectors. We call them muzzles, because all they want is for us to keep quiet,' complains a resident. El Rincón is a picturesque neighborhood located