The power of decision making for a social group is held either by an aristocrat, a dictator, the people, the middle class, the populace, the rich or by a priest. We can speak of aristocracy, autocracy, democracy, mesocratic, ochlocracy, plutocracy or theocracy.
Read MoreWhoever has visited the easternmost part of Cuba recently has undoubtedly tasted our exquisite tamales (or hayacas, as they’re commonly called in this part of the country), one of the dishes most liked by residents of Guantanamo. (10 photos)
Read MoreThe main purpose of these educational institutions is the cleansing of civil society. They serve to exorcize social conflict and economic precariousness through the direct transmission of a normalizing culture consistent with the government’s interests.
Read MoreMireya and Ernesto have spent a year contesting the handling his case involving corruption. Housing Department officials in the Marianao neighborhood cheated him out of the right to receive what’s his.
Read MoreI discovered an embryo of this a few nights ago. Don’t ask me to say the name of the establishment or its location. I won’t commit the sin of being inconsiderate or an informer.
Read MoreI went to the shop located on the first floor of the Florida Hotel in Old Havana to buy some cologne for my mother’s doctor. I’d already bought him a couple pairs of socks and she had insisted on cologne.
Read MoreSeveral days ago I read a comment online saying that, except for people who receive family remittances from overseas, all Cubans are starving, with young people appearing to have come out of concentration camps and it being rare to find an obese person on the island.
Read MoreA few weeks ago I was able to return to Buenos Aires through an invitation to the event “Global Economic Governance: The Possible Roles of Latin America,” organized by the magazine Nueva Sociedad.
Read MoreOne of the recent court cases revolving around corruption and the embezzlement of government resources involved people who worked at the Havana airport and in the modern bio-pharmacy industry.
Read MoreMilitary service in Cuba is mandatory – unless you’re gay, crazy or have enough money to pay off a corrupt official to get you out of it. I don’t know anybody who has ever voluntarily gone to sign up at the recruitment office.
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