24 Replies to “January 24, 2026: Reader Tips”

  1. The collapse of Castro’s Cuba is finally at hand:

    Cuba’s capital lived through a grim Thursday – literally. Diana, a second-year veterinary student in Havana, spent the entire day without eating. There is no gas left in her house, where she lives with her grandparents -both elderly -she told 14ymedio.

    “They say people banged pots. I didn’t have the strength to hear it or to bang a saucepan myself, but I certainly felt like it,” says the young woman. “On top of that, I had an exam today, hungry, because there comes a point when bread doesn’t fill you, and it’s not cheap either.” She laments: “I don’t know where this is going, but I’m tired.”

    Irma, a 40-year-old Facebook ad promoter, lists her ordeal: “The power goes out and the connection disappears. I caught a cold going out on the balcony looking for a signal and hanging clothes at night, because the laundry piles up, and when the power comes back it’s run, wash, cook rice, iron the kid’s uniform.” She says her sister, a seamstress, is tearing her hair out because she can’t get power to work. “They give her electricity for one hour the entire day -if this keeps up, she’ll have to sleep during the day and work at night. And the worst part is it seems that you-know-who doesn’t care.”

    In Holguín, local sources report gasoline at 1,200 pesos per liter and a can of kerosene for up to 15,000. In Havana, some users say they can find gasoline “on the side” for 1,000 pesos per liter, although in most places the going rate is 700 to 750. In Sancti Spíritus, the cheapest prices are found: five liters of “stove kerosene”, explains a neighbor, cost between 1,850 and 1,900 pesos – that is, between 370 and 380 pesos per liter. Most monthly pensions in Cuba are under 4,000 pesos ($8 USD) and the average salary is a little over 6,000 pesos ($12 USD).

    https://havanatimes.org/news/gasoline-reaches-750-pesos-1-50-usd-per-liter-in-havana/

    Little by little, solar panels have taken over the landscape of the small town of Vertientes in Camagüey Province. Many families do not have large systems, but only a couple of panels and a power station to keep their essential appliances running and provide some lighting.

    But even that is enough to make a difference in a municipality that, throughout 2025, received no more than four hours of electricity a day on average.

    https://havanatimes.org/features/rural-cuba-is-emptying-out/

    1. How could you starve in a tropical island where mangoes, avocados and many other fruits grow? Even in an urban environment, couldn’t you have a couple chickens and an avocado tree or two in buckets on the balcony?

      2. It’s a communist country, you aren’t allowed to have more than your neighbors.

        If you do you keep it hidden from public view. The same goes for many other shithole countries.

    2. I have a friend in Cuba right now. I spoke to her a few days ago. She says it gets a little worse each year and it was already bad. But if you have American dollars you can pretty much buy anything on the black market. Except sometimes coffee, so she brings her own because starting a day without coffee … in Cuba …

  10. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    MINNEAPOLIS RIGHT NOW IS SOAKING UP THE CRAZY FROM THE REST OF THE COUNTRY

    I heard rumors they want to do this in NYC, and be fair they have enough illegals there to pull it off, since it’s a job Americans won’t do.

    Ba-Dum-Tish…

    1. From the above video of the ICE shooting, the woman in pink has released her video of this event.

      “New video angle shows the struggle between armed suspect and Border Patrol agents who were forced to fire defensive shots
      This was captured by the woman in pink standing behind the scuffle in the original video
      Again, going at federal law enforcement with a firearm is a stupid idea.”

      https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2015133985337192841

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