'There's no chicken in Santiago de Cuba,' complains a mother of three. 'The MSMEs were the ones that had it, despite the price cap, but they rotted, due to the blackouts'
The speed at which agricultural production is dropping is unprecedented. What are the causes of this disaster, and what could happen if it continues?
'At home we're going hungry, and I can't get food at school,' says a boy who sells bread in Havana.
Analysts Emilio Morales, Juan Antonio Blanco, Roberto Veiga and Omar López Montenegro assess, in DIARIO DE CUBA, what the American tycoon's return to the White House may mean for the island.
No one should be deceived into believing that the current state of national decomposition is just a by-product, something that 'happened' when, attempting to implement socialism, Castroism ended up creating this hell.
While Chinese trade with Latin America has been constantly on the rise, with the island it has been a resounding failure.
Cubans who have received help from the project, headed up in Madrid by Father Bladimir Navarro, spoke to DIARIO DE CUBA.
Marrero tries to put band-aids on a wound that will not close, repeats already familiar information, and announces a technical maintenance halt at two large thermoelectric plants.
'In this trial, all the parties, including the defense counsel of the six parties tried and convicted in Cuba, favored the impunity of Fidel Castro's son and MININT officials,' says a DIARIO DE CUBA lawyer.
In an exclusive, DIARIO DE CUBA reveals images of a trial in which Alejandro Castro Soto del Valle's name came up on several occasions.
DIARIO DE CUBA offers a list of ten athletes who, after burnishing their country's name at international events, have been snubbed by the government.
Independent civil society is rebutting the official narrative on the situation of women, the manipulation of information, and the opacity of statistics, and condemning the political persecution suffered by activists.
No one can rule out that the Cuban regime’s crusade against private property will rage on, even though it would bankrupt thousands of MSMEs, leading to famine and a humanitarian crisis.
'There is no doubt that in Cuba the process is underway, people are moving from passive obedience to active protest'.
It is not only teenage pregnancy: 'the revolutionary work in education has done anthropological damage that it will be very difficult to reverse without the recovery of citizens' freedoms'.
'I'm interested in recovering a term that has spread, and that is migratory mourning.' A psychologist, a sociologist and a doctor in Migration Studies talk about these issues.
Professionals who have resumed their careers in other countries share their experiences and compare the conditions under which they now work with those they left on the island.
'The times when the ration book included dozens of products are not coming back,' says a retiree. 'I think that if the government hasn't cancelled it all at once because it fears a popular uprising'.
For a transition, the importance of those holding positions at different levels of the government, silent out of fear but yearning for change, must not be disregarded.
The devastating new measures taken against Cuba's private sector are a repetition of mistakes made previously, and the regime knows it. Why, then, are they applying them?
