The bottom line is that national industry needs to be rethought according to the Cuban people’s domestic needs, enabling people to buy on credit (when they don’t have the cash they need), facilitating payments like other countries do. It would create better social balance and brighten up the lives of many Cuban families with lower incomes. (17 photos)
Read MoreAfter 150 years of struggle and great sacrifice, the Cuban Revolution has managed to make our heroes’ dreams come true as of January 1, 1959 and it continues to be present in the vast majority of Cubans’ minds because it is a people’s revolution for the people, which means we can confidently say that Cuba continues to be a country living in revolution.
Read MoreSheyla Pool’s short movie “Fragil” is competing in the Havana Film Festival short films category. Its title and lead characters would make you think that it was a story about everyday life where old age is shown in its most delicate state.
Read MoreI don’t like weddings. A pastel pink and white cake is like a bland marriage. Yesterday, I went to my friend’s son’s wedding and I realized how boring these ceremonies usually are; at least church weddings are elegant, and they have that solemn air that makes us feel the phrase “until death do us part” is real, although this sacred union is normally broken later and the couple send everything to hell.
Read MoreBorn poor… is an article I recently wrote, in which I mention some of my personal experiences in my many attempts to have a steady income coming into my home, in a Cuba where the economy continues to dwindle. One of HT’s readers left a comment which caused me pain. He literally said: “You were born to be a nail and you’ll never be a hammer.”
Read MoreThere is a popular saying that goes: good things don’t last very long in a poor person’s home. Etecsa has confirmed that this is 100% true. A few months ago, Cuba’s only telecommunications company promoted a tempting offer for its customers: “The Friend Plan”.
Read MoreA friend from Cuba wrote to me: Are things improving in Venezuela? I asked him why he was so curious all of a sudden, as I hadn’t insinuated anything in the conversation for him to think that. “It’s just that TeleSur said…” Ah, TeleSur!… What did TeleSur say?
Read MoreThis new Constitution has been designed to give an impression of “legality”, of progressiveness, and it is nothing but a more comprehensive version of the former, treating basic rights in an even more ambiguous way. It’s a way for them to legitimize the Cuban Communist Party’s absolute power in our society, which is clearly expressed in Article 5.
Read MoreThe protest announced by the “San Isidro Collective”, (along with artists Iris Ruiz, Amaury Pacheco, Yanelys Nunez, Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, Michel Matos, among the most prominent) has unleashed paranoia and excessive surveillance of the Ministry of Culture’s (Mincult) surrounding areas.
Read MoreEvery Cuban doctor on their way back from Brazil has been overcome by two extremely antagonistic emotions: joy and sadness. They had worked in the Mais Medicos program started by former president Dilma Rousseff in poor rural and urban areas of the South American country.
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