Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Cuba Campaign against Homophobia

The Week against Homophobia should extend the whole year, only in this way will homophobics get used to the idea of coexisting with diverse sexual orientations. And gradually true acceptance will come.

More Religious Faiths in Cuba

Interest in religion is on the upsurge in Cuba, indicated by the growth and variety of the faiths being practiced as well as by the ease with which people participate in more than one spiritual community at a time.

Struggle Against Homophobia Takes to the Streets

“Governments cannot wait for a social consensus in order to guarantee respect for people’s rights,” Mariela Castro, head of Cuba’s National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX), told IPS on the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia in Cuba Monday.

Cuba’s Produce Market Maze (II)

Fifty one years after the Cuban Revolution the challenge of providing a sufficient amount of quality farm products for the island’s population has yet to be met. In this part two, and in a previous article, Cuba’s Produce Market Maze (1), a Havana Times contributor speaks with farmers and vendors to take a look at the current issues.

Gov. opens public trans to private initiative

The Cuban government handed over small public transportation buses in the capital to be managed by the persons who drive them, in another gesture of opening to the private sector in services, until now under State control, reported the accredited press in the island. The measure follows that of the creation of cooperatives in barbershops and beauty parlors, and taxi rental.

Cuba says Spain is “valid interlocutor”

Spain is a “valid interlocutor” in Cuba’s dialogue with the European Union, affirmed the island’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, in statements to the press in Madrid. Rodríguez also affirmed that his government “does not recognize the European Union any moral authority to deal with questions of human rights” in the Caribbean country.

Is there a US org. with a license to travel to Cuba for the Havana marathon?

One organization that might be able to help you is Global Exchange, an education and action resource centre based in San Francisco. Its mission is to promote human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice around the world.

How do you take salsa classes in Havana?

It is really an individual preference whether one wants to learn salsa in organized classes or make one’s own arrangements, upon arrival, with a private teacher. It is our policy to recommend official Cuban structures and sources of information for arranging one’s visit inside the country. For information on organized salsa classes in Cuba, following are some Cuban organizations and websites that you might want to check out.

Cuba’s Elections & Participatory Democracy

The deep socio-economic changes that are needed by Cuban society to advance toward true socialism do not seem possible if the controls that limit the direct and decisive participation of people in the current political system are not also modified.

Cuba’s Produce Market Maze

In practice, however, the movement of produce between the field and the dinner table has become slow and complicated, engendering considerable losses due to waste, theft and misappropriations at several points along the chain, productive imbalances and irregularities in the use of transportation, including the misuse of fuel.