Cuba News Roundup: October 1st, 2021 – Startup Cuba TV

And, Car and Driver magazine threw shade on the New York Times calling their recent Cuba car column a, “profoundly idiotic premise.”

For those of you keeping track, it was just 2019 yesterday. If you’re trying to deal with 2022 being only 90 days away, close your eyes and give a listen to our new fall playlist. It’ll slow things down for you. If you don’t want to slow down, here are a few headlines for you to catch up on; Andrea Mitchell sat down with Cuba’s foreign minister (who incidentally looks much better on camera than he does in the photo below) to talk about sanctions, protests and Cuba’s overall economic ask. Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida – in prison since June – has been released. The Cuban economy is starting to open. And, in case you missed it, Miami’s police chief invokes Cuba in his statement.

Oh, and Car and Driver magazine smacked down and threw some serious shade at the New York Times for their article claiming that electric vehicles will make the US look like Cuba in twenty years. In fact, the exact language used in the response was, “we eviscerate this profoundly idiotic premise.” Grab an extra cafecito for this one; it’s below for your enjoyment added anxiety.

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Economic conditions for Cubans are “very difficult,” Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said, blaming Covid-19 and the U.S. economic embargo. Read more at nbcnews.com

Photo: Getty Images

The New York Times thinks EVs will cause gasoline-powered cars to become carefully preserved rural rarities, like 1950s American cars in Cuba. Join us as we eviscerate this profoundly idiotic premise. Read more at caranddriver.com.

November 21, 2022

Turkey with a mojo marinade and mofongo stuffing with bacon?! Just add the rice, beans and key lime pie and Chef Jami turns your holiday into a Caribbean feast.

Photo: REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

Cuba is allowing a staggered opening from Friday of restaurants, shopping centres and beaches in provinces that have lowered coronavirus cases even as it battles some of the highest nationwide rates of infection per capita worldwide. Read more at reuters.com

Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo, left, hugs a demonstrator on July 14, 2021, in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, as people rallied in support of antigovernment demonstrations in Cuba. Photo: Wilfredo Lee / AP file

A feud is brewing between the police chief and the police union as well as city commissioners whom Acevedo accuses of meddling in the department. Read more at nbcnews.com.

Photo: Hamlet Lavastida Facebook

Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida, whom Cuba’s state security held prisoner since June, was released this weekend but forced into exile with his partner, writer Katherine Bisquet, another prominent leader of the island artists’ pro-democracy movement. Read more at miamiherald.com

February 10, 2023

Samuel Riera’s Art Brut Cuba opens channels for Outsider Artists to sell their art when they otherwise couldn’t earn a living from their work.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC) has been sued in a US court for violating the Helms-Burton Act. The Act is intended to punish companies that earn money from assets that were owned by US citizens, or Cubans who became US citizens, but confiscated by Cuba in connection with the Cuban revolution. Read more at splash247.com.