Garlic: Peeled, packaged and ready
CUBAN CHRONICLES Garlic: Peeled, packaged and ready by Walter Lippmann You don’t like the time trouble and smell of peeling the garlic? No problem. Here they are in small wrapped packages. No need to ask the price this plastic-wrapped 10 peso note tells you. Also good for keeping the vampires away. Originally posted to facebook […]
Lighter Refill
CUBAN CHRONICLES by Walter Lippmann February 12, 2019 Though you can buy cigarette lighters nearly everywhere, it is cheaper to refill the old ones rather than buy new ones all the time. This is one of the scores of jobs which are specifically licensed, here in Cuba, as part of the growing world of self-employment. […]
Book-Buying at Fayad Jamis
CUBAN CHRONICLES by Walter Lippmann February 12, 2019 In these last days of my current 2-month visit, I engage in a mad dash of running around to stores to buy books and gifts for friends and family. Yesterday I went to one of the very best Cuban bookstore is in which everything is new and […]
Best Copyshop in Havana
CUBAN CHRONICLES Best Copyshop in Havana by Walter Lippmann February 12, 2019 This is a workstation at what is probably the best copyshop I have ever found in Cuba, it is called InkPression and it is located on Jay Street between 25 and 27 and if you look right below the flat panel screen, you […]
ETECSA at 17th and A, in Vedado
CUBAN CHRONICLES by Walter Lippmann February 12, 2019 This is the ETECSA office at 17th and S streets in Vedado. This is the main place where I do the great bulk of my written online activity. There are 20 computers in this office of which 17 or so are usually in working, functional condition. Going […]
Small Private Stand
CUBAN CHRONICLES by Walter Lippmann February 12, 2019 Small private stand outside of a big hotel at a very busy intersection, 17th Street and A in the Vedado area. She is selling various kinds of crackers, bars of guava paste, turron de mani, a deadly sweet confection made of ground peanuts and sugar. and other […]
Last Dash
CUBAN CHRONICLES by Walter Lippmann February 12, 2029 Yours truly, just coming back from one of my last dash. As you know, I like bright colored garments. Lili, my landlady, took this photograph. I really do not like having my picture taken and you can tell that by the fact that my smile here is […]
Havana Book Fair
CUBAN CHRONICLES by Walter Lippmann February 10, 2019 These are some pictures I took yesterday at the Havana book fair. There are captions along with each of these images giving some context. Originally published on facebook February 10 at 3:55 AM Feb 10, 2019Walter Lippmann
Cuban doctors left in Brazil without a job
Cuban doctors who decided to remain in Brazil after Cuba decided they should return to the island have found they can't get work as doctors, despite being told they would be grated work permits.
WAR AGAINST THE CHINESE ECONOMIC MODEL
WAR AGAINST THE CHINESE ECONOMIC MODEL By Manuel E. Yepe http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/ Exclusive for the daily POR ESTO! of Merida, Mexico. Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann. The growing hostility of Western governments towards China has more to do with the interests of Western investors than with legitimate security fears, according to Stephen Gowans, a Canadian […]
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