Young Cubans have a strange habit of flicking through those tempting “How to be a millionaire” books when they are about to emigrate or have just set up a business. Having lived all of their lives in Socialism’s low social class, their life ambitions quickly dwindle and they give up their reading.
Read More“A few days ago, I went to a tire repair shop in Kendal, where quite a few Cubans work, to change the tires on my car,” Harold tells me, a great friend of mine who is living in the United States and is back in Cuba on holiday.
Read MoreOn the afternoon of December 21st, the Meteorological Institute had forecast a low pressure extratropical storm with heavy rains and sea swells along the coast, including Havana’s Malecon. This would be accompanied by winds between 30-45 km/hour.
Read MoreA few months ago, there was an uproar in the media about Cuba’s new draft Constitution. Many of its points touched on aspects relating to Cuban society, and a special emphasis was placed on Art, Private property and LGBT people’s rights.
Read MoreEvery year, we celebrate Teachers’ Day in Cuba on December 22nd. This date was chosen because it was the day that Cuba declared itself a nation free of illiteracy, after carrying out a literacy campaign organized by Fidel Castro in 1961. It deserves to be a day of celebration, but it should also be a day for us to reflect upon the importance of teachers within society.
Read MoreWe are less than two weeks away from the first day of 2019, which will mark 60 years of involution, I mean revolution, in Cuba. Sixty years of state capitalism, Russian-Caribbean socialism or, simply, of a Castro monarchy.
Read MoreAs a democratic socialist, I want a democratic, fair and prosperous Homeland. I know that the country needs to change, but years have been passing us by and we still haven’t caught a glimpse of any path, a “road map” as people say nowadays.
Read MoreThis might not be the most pleasant read for those who were born and have grown up with the comforts of a capitalist society. I am going to talk about the movie “Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things.” Before watching this documentary, I had absolutely no idea that this movement existed…
Read MoreA response I gave in an interview has inspired me to write this late reflection, which I couldn’t include at the time. At one point, I said that independent artists protesting against Decree 349 have been repressed and treated like political dissidents. I would have liked to have added that no peaceful political dissident deserves to be treated in the same way a criminal is…
Read MoreOn the government’s nightly TV show Mesa Redonda, (The Round Table) several officials have been “following” the national transport issue. Sitting comfortably in their seats and confident that they speak nothing but the truth, they explain how the new measures that regulate the “experiment” to “structure” private taxi drivers’ work will be implemented.
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