Regarding our confiscated magazines, through Resolution No. 92-2013, the Cuban customs office declared in its fifth “whereas” that “the penalty was correctly applied by the authority in charge in that it detected literature directed against the revolutionary process in Venezuela and its leader.”
Read MoreCuba’s current president has referred more than once to the country’s interest in talks with the US government (clarifying that this must be on the basis of absolute respect for self-determination – which I agree with, by the way).
Read MoreCuba is an ideal environment for exchanges between people committed to the earth, said Madeleine Porr, the executive director of the German NGO “In Good Hands.” Her group sponsored a recent symposium in Havana titled, “Making the Future with Local Strengths,” which dealt with recycling, renewable energy and healthy food. 11 photos)
Read MoreIt’s common in Havana to hear people talking about machismo and domestic violence, but that doesn’t mean these have been eradicated. In the countryside too there exists a high percentage of tolerance towards these evils.
Read More“Socialism of the 21st Century” will be the legacy of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Cuba should continue to take cues from this new flavor of post-capitalist governance and embrace new atheistic appeals of Socialism. Here I present a few ways Cuba can get a move on re-branding its somewhat dated style.
Read MoreDuring the period of revolution, the three kings took a rather long vacation… as would other saints. In recent times there were no indications that the holiday schedule had changed, but… suddenly the Cuban custom of mixing ideas and spirituality prevailed once again.
Read MoreThe 12th edition of the World Congress on Art Deco begins today in Havana and will run through March 21. In Havana, this style’s eclectic and bygone (or nearly bygone) character is reflected in elements of neoclassical, baroque and rococo buildings. (38 photos)
Read MoreThis is another post about drugs. No, don’t raise your eyebrows or huff. I’ll be raising the issue at least until they’re legalized and decent information on them can be found in bookstores and libraries here.
Read MoreFor the entire month of March, Havana’s Rita Montaner Theatre Co. is presenting an adaptation of “Two Sides of the Coin”), “We invite you to sit down on this ‘wall on the Malecon’ — the great character on this stage production — and from it, look out at the horizon. Seeing the sun? …as well as its spots?”
Read MoreBy virtue of having gone so many centuries exploited and discriminated by the great powers, any achievement for the Latin American population is magnified from its perspective. It’s as if that we are crying out to the world: “Look at us, we exist!”
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