#cubans — Public Fediverse posts
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#Cuba - #Solarpowered #tricycles help #Cubans navigate #FuelShortages and blockades
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
Updated 4:38 PM UTC, July 10, 2026HAVANA (AP) — "Cuba’s iconic vintage cars have all but disappeared and in their place, small electric tricycles — most of them made in China — have become the primary means of transportation for hundreds of thousands of Cubans grappling with a prolonged fuel crisis.
These are no ordinary electric tricycles — many Cubans have outfitted them with #SolarPanels, allowing the vehicles to recharge without relying on the island nation’s strained power grid."The three-wheelers are a far cry from the old-timers that only a year ago cruised the streets spewing clouds of black smoke.
" 'This is how people get around now,' said 40-year-old Liecer de la Cruz, who owns one of these vehicles.
"The tricycles, with a cost between $2,000 and $4,000, are used to transport goods and serve fixed routes once covered by buses.
"While their price is out of reach for most Cubans, many have sold their older gasoline-powered cars to buy the tricycles. Others got them from relatives abroad, where they are generally cheaper, and some small-business owners even used their profits to invest in them, expecting to recoup the cost."
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-fuel-crisis-electric-tricycles-fa75dc2aca5b78dac90b1e86c7c762b1Archived version:
https://archive.ph/arhCA#SolarPunkSunday #PostOil #SolarBikes #SolarTrikes #BikeTooter #USPol #WorldPol #USBlockade
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Video - What Cubans Think About Trump
https://peertube.world/w/9XqpcAqegt7tdfgHUW228G
Duration - 1:45[a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
When Donald #Trump says that Cuban people love him, he’s talking about Cubans in #Miami. On the island, it’s a different story.
We asked #Cubans in Cuba about what they think about Trump.
#NoWarOnCuba
#OilForCuba!
#CubaIsNotAlone
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol #US #USA -
#Video - Interview with Gloria Youtube
https://peertube.world/w/ooHzNDmVLmeMtyHVL1inXU
Duration - 19:29
[from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]Dr. Gloria Caballero Roque grew up in a single room in Old Havana with four siblings, no running water, and a mother who sold things on the street to feed them. Free education, universal #healthcare and also a strong mother..., she says, are the reasons she made it to university. She went on to earn two PhDs, teach for 35 years and run for political office in the #US.
In this interview she speaks about her childhood, her transition to life in the US and US–Cuba relations.
Discussing what's happening inside #Cuba without discussing the #blockade, she says, is treating the symptom while ignoring the disease. "Close the door of this house for 60 years and let's see how you survive."
She says sanctions hit #Black #Cubans hardest, a legacy of colonialism. The blockade reinforces a structure that was already there.
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#AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from -
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https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-continents.html#Europe//newsskycom/story/politics-latest-tories-criticise-delay-in-publishing-defence-funding-plan-12593360?postid=11777167#liveblog-body'>AI -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#45#US intentionally pushing #Cubans into hunger -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#TallinnView all news from States in the US news https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-united-states.html
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Ada Ferrer on America’s Imperial Adventures in Cuba
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#MiddleEast war will test M'sia's capability to maintain
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#KualaLumpur#Cubans are begging for the #US to finish the job
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#14Ministry of #Environment captures escaped crocodile
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#SantoDomingoQantas’ direct flight between #Perth and #London now
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Singapore#Vancouver #Art Gallery Announces Major Gift of Stephen
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/media.html#3#Block #CEO backs #AI, lets go 40% of staff
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"To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers
Cubans had long benefited from legal privileges unavailable to immigrants from other countries. President Trump has changed that.
Heidy Sánchez took her 17-month-old daughter to a routine check-in last April with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Tampa, Fla. During the appointment, federal authorities told her that she was being detained and that her husband should pick up their daughter, who was still breastfeeding.
Two days later, Ms. Sánchez, 44, who worked as a home health aide, was deported.
Ms. Sánchez’s story quickly spread across social media, in part because she is Cuban, a group that had long been treated differently than other immigrants, even when they entered the country illegally.
That has changed under President Trump.
He has repatriated more than 1,600 Cubans in 2025, according to the Cuban government. That is about double the number of Cubans who were repatriated in 2024. And in the years that Mr. Trump has been president, he has sent more Cubans back than his three predecessors.
Those numbers are greater for Cubans who were deported by land into Mexico. Some of them had been in the United States for decades and built families and businesses, but were removed because of an old criminal conviction — say, from Miami’s infamous cocaine cowboys days in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Nowhere has the shock of treating Cubans like other migrants been felt more than in Florida, which was shaped in modern times by exiles of the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Families, businesses and communities that once felt removed from or immune to immigration enforcement now must face it head-on. Some Floridians worry that these deportations could stain the state’s proud Cuban identity, turning older immigrants against newer ones.
Under Mr. Trump, many other countries saw similar increases in repatriation. The difference is that Cubans had not previously been targeted as aggressively for removal. Regular deportation flights to Cuba began in January 2017, under President Barack Obama, paused during the coronavirus pandemic and restarted in 2023.Many Cubans have also been detained for weeks or months in a facility in the Florida Everglades known as 'Alligator Alcatraz.' At another nearby detention facility, Cuban detainees protested last June by writing 'SOS Cuba' on their shirts and spelling out 'SOS' with their bodies in the recreation yard."
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
16 fuel tanks damaged; Russian oil terminal in occupied Crimea still burning -- 18 year-old Russian singer detained by St. Petersburg police for performing anti-Putin song -- Germany pledges over $2.3 billion in new military aid for Ukraine, including Patriot and IRIS-T air defense systems -- [VLOG] Putin understands one language ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/thursday-october-16-2025/
