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  • 2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ruaridh Nicoll

    Having endured electricity blackouts, water shortages, transport failures and the spiralling cost of food, Cuba’s students appear to have finally lost patience with their government over a ferocious price hike for the country’s faltering internet. Local chapters of Cuba’s Federation of University Students (FEU) have been calling for a slew of measures, including attendance strikes, explanations from ministers and even the resignation of their own organisation’s president.

  • 4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ruaridh Nicoll

    It’s a crisis that would have sent a shiver down Ernest Hemingway’s drinking arm. Cuba’s communist government is struggling to process enough sugar to make the rum for his beloved mojitos and daiquiris. As summer rains bring the Caribbean island’s 2025 harvest to an end, a recent analysis by Reuters suggests that Cuba’s state-run monopoly, Azcuba, is likely to produce just 165,000 metric tonnes of sugar this year. That compares with harvests of 8m in the late 1980s.

  • 1 month ago | ft.com | Ruaridh Nicoll

    Our small plane banks and I look down at an island like a fish hook rusting in a perfect sea.

  • 2 months ago | internazionale.it | Ruaridh Nicoll

    L’antico albergo ferroviario di Toronto, il Fairmont Royal York, è a pochi passi dalla Union station, ma a gennaio questa distanza può rivelarsi insidiosa: il vento è gelido e attacca come un orso polare arrabbiato. A testa bassa io e mia moglie Camila camminiamo velocemente tra i due edifici di fine ottocento che si trovano nel distretto finanziario, fatto di grattacieli in vetro e acciaio.

  • Mar 15, 2025 | ft.com | Ruaridh Nicoll

    Toronto’s grand old station hotel, the Fairmont Royal York, is only a few steps from Union Station, but in January you enter the gap at...

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