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Life in Cuba Today - From the Heart of a Cuban

August 20, 2021 Marlena Maduro Baraf
Photo by Simon Mumenthaler via Unsplash

Photo by Simon Mumenthaler via Unsplash

I was in Cuba earlier this year, and I don’t see how people can live. They don’t have water, they don’t have funds. There may be some chicken in a store that sells in dollars… el matazón de las colas, those endless lines… I felt that I was living in the Stone Age. Imagine… the chicken was frozen, and the sellers in order to sell the chicken would smash it against the sidewalks, as if they were animals. They broke the archway of a friend’s house built in 1930 with the frozen chicken. No one is thinking. It makes me crazy.

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In Diversity, Soy/Somos Tags Cuba Today, Cuba protests, Cuban repatriation, vaccinations in Cuba, San Isidro Movement, Patria y Vida, Cubanos
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