AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoCuba’s Power Crisis: Nationwide blackouts hit again, with Havana residents staging pot-banging protests over water and electricity as the grid strains under fuel shortages. Pensions Under Pressure: The Central Bank says local businesses will help pay pensions, a tacit admission the state can’t keep up—while retirees still face brutal cash access. Digital Payments Shift: Cuba relaxes the 5,000-peso cash limit for transactions between economic actors, pushing transfer payments with new bank-by-bank flexibility. Human Rights & Repression: Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s U.S. parole is approved after days of missing whereabouts; meanwhile, Justicia 11J reports the arbitrary detention of social media critic Lumey Guzmán. Arts & Culture: A new book on filmmaker Humberto Solás debuts at the Gibara Poor Film Festival, and Cuban singer Jenny Sotolongo revisits her childhood photo with Fidel Castro, insisting it wasn’t a political choice. Music Legacy: Norteño pioneer Ramiro Cavazos is remembered as a “last link” in the early genre chain.
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