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Cuban tourism downturn: New hotels being built despite visitor numbers

Tourism has long been one of the drivers of Cuba's economy.But the fallout from a steep drop in visitor numbers is forcing a growing number of people to leav...#Cubantourismdownturn #Cubasbatteredeconomy #Economy #Havana #NewhotelsbeingbuiltinCubadespitevisitornumbers #Tourism #aljazeera #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeera #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeranews #aljazeeracom
Cuban tourism downturn: New hotels being built despite visitor numbers

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Old Havana near Capitolio

"Sunday Morning"...

And a cosmic i-Ching selection, inspired by a wonderful book I just finished, "Dreaming in Cuban".

CONTEXT: This novel is the story of a Cuban family, pre-and post the 1959 Revolution. Some family escape to Miami and Brooklyn, most remain in and around Havana. Some get drawn into the nationalism/politics, some to Santeria (religion).

In the book, Pilar (named after Hemingway's boat!) finds her tormented soul can be soothed by an upright bass guitar, which a boyfriend encouraged her to get and learn, which she does, by chance.

Thin-sliced: Pilar is in mental anguish and now finding a bass, goes running out to the record bins to buy (for 50 cents) a scratchy copy of her guiding light: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground with Nico. This.

Suitable for a Sunday morning. And bass aficionados, & Lou Reed fans.

Photo is mine, from the heart of Havana, where I think it was one of these buildings near el Capitolio which exploded yesterday.

#music #myphoto #fenfotos #musica #musique #Cuba #Havana #LouReed #VelvetUnderground #Nico

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olladij_tudajev@joindiaspora.com
Olladij

We have heard a wide range of explanations for last week’s protests in #Cuba. #Rightwing proponents of capitalism blame the Cuban #government, charging that the #protests stem from the failures of one-party #socialism. Self-proclaimed anti-imperialists blame the United States government, alleging that these protests indicate covert #US intervention. Others blame US #sanctions on Cuba, suggesting that these are chiefly to blame for creating the economic conditions that sparked the protests. Each of these narratives contains a grain of #truth, but all fall short of grasping the whole.
How do people in Cuba see the protests? If we do not wish to simply project our own assumptions onto the events, the first thing we should do is to ask Cubans how they understand what is happening. Of course, there are bound to be countless different perspectives among the participants in a popular protest movement—but we can begin by consulting those whose politics are similar to our own.
One of the more visible Cuban anarchist groups is the Alfredo López Libertarian Workshop (Taller Libertario Alfredo López), an anarchist, anti-authoritarian, and anti-capitalist initiative that emerged in 2012. They are part of the Anarchist Federation of the Caribbean and Central America and one of the participants in the ABRA Social Center and Libertarian Library.

https://de.crimethinc.com/2021/07/22/cuban-anarchists-on-the-protests-of-july-11
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Cuban Anarchists on the Protests of July 11

Exploring the causes and implications of the July 11 protests, we present two interviews with anarchists and a statement from an anarchist initiative.