CUBA Has Collapsed

Millions of Cubans in the dark as plant failure triggers nationwide blackout

People wait for transportation at a bus station in Matanzas, Cuba, on October 18, 2024, during a nationwide blackout

Cuba was racing Friday to restore electricity after the failure of the island's biggest power plant caused a nationwide blackout, coming on the heels of weeks of extended outages across the cash-strapped country.....MORE

Ybor City artists welcome delegation from Cuba

The Hidden Faces of Havana Cuba You Never See

“Sanctions Produce Heartbreak”

You don’t need me to tell you things are bad all over – inflation, war, sedition, scarcity, an intractable climate catastrophe, plus powerful cadres who want to keep us misinformed, consuming and fearful, less we wake up to stand up. But the global malaise is one thing. The longest, strongest US sanctions are something altogether. The two together? Cuba, Summer, 2023.....MORE

WATCH THIS Before You Travel to Cuba in 2023

Internet Cuts and Riot Troops Repress Protesters in Cuba

A group of protesters reached the PCC municipal headquarters in Caimanera, Guantanamo, and chanted: “Down with the communist system!”

Hundreds of Cubans took to the streets to protest asking for “freedom” in the municipality of Caimanera, Guantanamo, on Saturday afternoon. Several videos circulating on networks, as well as live broadcasts through Facebook, recorded the demonstration, where women and young people predominated.

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Amigo Skate Cuba

Havana to Regla Ferry

Moving people for over 70 years!

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Bob Buckhorn still mulling over Tampa’s support for CrossBay Ferry. here

Florida Progressives Cuba Needs Help Too!

The US is sending aid to the islands but not Cuba. They don't want US help. being very jealous of its sovereignty and of their independence

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The Category 5 hurricane, the worst to hit the communist island since 1932, spent 24 hours grinding away over northern parts of the island, damaging more than 4,000 homes, inundating downtown Havana with knee-high floods and destroying thousands of acres of cane sugar.
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Cuban Freedom Fighter: Rosa Maria Paya

Human Rights Foundation submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions requesting that he call on the Cuban government to provide an official and comprehensive explanation regarding the state’s treatment of Rosa María Payá. The daughter of late Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá, Rosa María has suffered death threats and acts of intimidation at the hands of state security forces while campaigning on the island. here

Through peaceful initiatives like Cuba Decide — a campaign that seeks a referendum which would allow Cubans to vote to change the constitution to allow for free and fair elections — Rosa María is continuing the brave work begun by her father almost 20 years ago,” here

Pat Kemp In Cuba

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Ybor City May Lose Cuban Consulate To St. Pete

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn's lack of vision and ties to Frado of the MCM may have cost Ybor City their Cuban Consulate office.  According to St. Pete  City Council Chairman Charlie Gerdes "A couple of other Florida cities have been outright rejected." Alluding to Tampa and Miami.

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Gerdes didn't elaborate on his remarks, saying he didn't want to betray the confidence of the Cuban foreign ministry official who told him which Florida cities were out of the running. here

A Cuban Oil Disaster And The Florida Keys

The scenario is fiction, but the high-level attention it is drawing to a looming Florida threat is real. “The Florida keys awash in Cuban crude. here