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In Cuba, jineterismo is a category of illegal or semi-legal economic activities related to tourism in Cuba. It covers a broad range of activities including prostitution and pimping, as well as other forms of hustling, such as selling black-market and counterfeit goods, providing private taxi services and serving as informal tourist guides.
WHO health statistics for Cuba Source: WHO country page on Cuba; Life expectancy at birth m/f: 77/81 (years, 2016) Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f: 67.1/69.5 (years) Child mortality m/f: 5 (per 1000 live births, 2018) Adult mortality m/f: 116/68 (per 1000 population, 2016) Total health expenditure per capita: 2475 (Intl $, 2014)
Cuba’s boasting of its free healthcare system is comical. Back in the 1990s, it enjoyed generous subsidies from the Soviet Union, and the island’s healthcare services became the banner to ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Cuba, however it is seldom resorted to. The last executions were carried out in 2003. The last executions were carried out in 2003. National legislation provides for the death penalty for murder , threatening to commit murder, aggravated rape , terrorism , hijacking, piracy, drug trafficking and ...
The July 11 protests in Cuba were unprecedented. AP Photo/Ramon EspinosaThousands of Cubans took to the streets across the island around mid-July 2021 in a rare mass expression of dissent in a ...
The historic protests in Cuba stem from frustration over acute shortages and the communist governemnt's failure to improve the economy amid the pandemic.
Concerns have been expressed about the operation of due process.According to Human Rights Watch, even though Cuba, officially atheist until 1992, now "permits greater opportunities for religious expression than it did in past years, and has allowed several religious-run humanitarian groups to operate, the government still maintains tight control on religious institutions, affiliated groups ...
Advocates for returning to the Obama Cuba policy would have the United States join in the complicity of the European Union and Canada in subsidizing with tax dollars a 65-year-old dictatorship