All political systems, even the most authoritarian, coexist with a certain degree of critical discord. All of them, even the most democratic, also attempt to trivialize those disagreements and reduce them to the symbolic/token plane.
Read MoreThis Saturday, the first rays of light announced that it would be an ideal day for just about any family plan. If it wasn’t for the fact that I was flat broke, it looked like it would be a perfect day.
Read MoreSoon to mark the 500th year since its establishment, the entire city of Baracoa is absorbed in an intense program of restoration activities involving both its public works as well as the natural environment surrounding the area. (13 photos)
Read MoreA self-employed friend of mine is visited daily by a tax collector who demands a small amount of money from him for the space he uses to set up his table.
Read MoreThe son of a top dog in Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa drug cartel filed pleadings in a Chicago federal court accusing the U.S. government and its agencies of giving the cartel “carte blanche to continue to smuggle tons of illicit drugs into Chicago and the rest of the United States”.
Read MoreA new large-scale corruption scandal involving yet another Cuban government ministry, Informatics and Telecommunictions, is unfolding today in Havana.
Read MoreDiana Nyad gave up her attempt to swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida early Tuesday after 29 hours and reaching about half the 103-mile (166 km) crossing.
Read MoreAlthough today one can see a few Chinese Yutong buses running up and down its main streets, the fact is that mass public transportation in Caibarien has virtually disappeared.
Read MoreNow I live in the far-eastern suburb of Alamar. And, as if I were destined to never to forget to compare, they’ve sent me to complete my social service obligation in the far western suburb of Miramar.
Read MoreMoscow is paying homage to Alicia Alonso — the “Diva of Dance” — to mark her ninetieth birthday. An intimate room in the Bolshoi Theater was the setting where Russians honored the most eminent figure of Cuban ballet.
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