Despite challenges like high interest rates and high household electricity tariffs, the Brazilian economy has been growing at the highest rates seen in decades. Another problem that, although it has not stood in the way of growth, must be overcome is the costly use of roads for transporting farm products – an issue that is being addressed by the expansion of railway networks.
Read MoreIt’s now impossible to conceal the most dangerous counter-revolutionary forces because they have the capacity to hold back the necessary changes. They are within the very own bureaucracy of the party/government. They are the forces that speak of change but don’t change anything, those who oppose the slightest basic change.
Read MoreUS citizen Diana Nyad, 62, left last night from Havana on what she hopes will be a two and a half day journey to try and reach the Florida Keys swimming without the protection of a cage to guard from sharks.
Read MoreGuevara struggled against the independence of the university in relation to society, and that’s all fine and well, but he did it by throwing the university at the feet of such a powerful and authoritarian government.
Read MoreThe TV programs Huron Azul and Clip Punto cu are part of a small number of cultural programs that are struggling to reintroduce a socio-cultural critique into discourse on Cuban television.
Read MoreIn several posts published here at Havana Times, people have commented about the increase of violence in our country. As for me, I refer particularly to gender violence in my town, Guantanamo City.
Read MoreWhy not just hold carnival even if it’s every five years, but one that’s respected and that at least resembles the true carnival of Havana that many knew and that was among the best in the Americas and the world?
Read MoreEvery week, news agencies reporting on what’s happening in Mexico tell us about dozens of deaths caused by violent confrontations between various criminal bands as well as these groups with the police and the military. They also speak of civilian victims of murder and kidnapping or those caught in the cross fires of armed crashes.
Read MoreChavez has returned to Cuba for his second session of Chemotherapy treatment after having a cancerous tumor removed on June 20th also in Havana.
Read MoreEcuador sees the loans it has agreed with China as “good news,” because they are long-term, and all that is required in return is “oil, and not the horrendous adjustments imposed by the IMF (International Monetary Fund),” leftwing Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa told analysts critical of the size and high interest rates of the loans.
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