Dmitri Prieto’s Diary

It made me ask myself how is it that in one case we have a genuine movement towards the elimination of the massive use of plastic bags while in the other case the environmental issue only comes up as a comedic device.

Celia said she was a “Trotskera,” coming from “rockera“, meaning a female who is a rock-music fan, not a Trotskyist. In fact, I met her at the Havana Book Fair in one of those stalls of Trotskyist publishers that I wrote about in a previous Havana Times article.

Miramar represents the last stop in the chain of westward movements by the bourgeoisie of Havana in the 19th and 20th century that began from Centro Habana to Cerro, Cerro to Vedado, and Vedado to Miramar. It is also home to a large portion of Cuban government officials and managers of the post-revolutionary period.

Many authors continue to maintain that the constitution currently in force (that of 1976, modified in 1992 and 2002) retains a content marked by provisionality. If we compare it to the recently approved charters in Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, we can see that Cuba’s is a constitution that is closer to those of the former European socialist camp.

Recently, a bit of a controversy was initiated in Havana Times concerning an article titled “Respect for Constitutional Order” by our friend Erasmo Calzadilla. Here I only wish to clarify a few points.

Commercial legislation in Cuba has established tremendous restrictions on private sales. These constraints practically exclude local suppliers (fishermen) from the marketplace, since they are prevented from setting up a genuine fish market, something basic in a historic fishing town such as Santa Cruz.

They were Cuban musicians who traveled to Spain in the 1990s. The ’90s for Cuba is not a chronological category, but an ontological one. This period has to do with the very being of the nation. With our existence, contorted, sharply painful, whose pressure ends up being felt close the heart – like a bullet.

There were already some Santa Cruz residents gathered at the (ex) bus stop of the (ex) 669, when suddenly a vintage 1956 Chevrolet passed by and stopped. Several went running toward it in hopes of using a private-sector mode of transportation to reach their homes.

As a teacher at a Municipal University, I am perfectly familiar with the problems the officials were referring to. Although these facilities offer the same diplomas as the daytime programs, it has been obvious that the real level of instruction is below that of “conventional” universities.

This summer, two anniversaries were commemorated: one was the first landing on the Moon by a human (astronaut Neil Armstrong), and the other was the momentous Woodstock rock festival. Both events well recalled on specially-dedicated Cuban television programs.