On Saturday night the most popular Cuba TV channel broadcast the documentary “Peons of the Empire.” In it were presented two Cuban State Security agents who had infiltrated “counterrevolutionary factions” for a long time.
Read MoreOne of the biggest struggles I’ve had to deal with in my day to day life living in Cuba is the absolute dearth of dynamic commentary on our contemporary world.
Read MoreI’m a radiochemist — not a journalist — but I feel sufficiently committed to everyone who was there to write about what happened. I believe it’s a small contribution that can end up contributing to solving the problem.
Read MoreWhen I was little, my grandfather and my father used to take me there to fish and to walk along its banks.
Read MoreOur younger generations were really educated in an indifference to work. They grew up unaware that the things people obtain are the result of their effort…that they don’t merely deserve them.
Read MoreHere in Cuba, the un-signed message is the surest way to report misappropriated resources, to identify beneficiaries or to blow the whistle on horrifying manipulations of financing.
Read MoreSeveral days ago I was taking the bus home, and I wouldn’t be lying if I said I felt completely out of context among the passengers.
Read MoreThe pursuit of the intolerance of critical thought deserves a response, be it emanating from Budapest or Manama, Jerusalem or Beijing, Havana or Miami.
Read MoreJimmy has been the first one to fulfill his promise: to plant a tree on his birthday. He did it this past February 5 along with a group of friends, teachers and students from a school in his community.
Read MoreThe recent events in North Africa and the Middle East have destroyed several myths of academia and global politics, thus sowing doubt and fear in all species of opinion makers, movers and shakers. This has also generated interpretations — more or less daring and substantial ones — on this side of the Atlantic including Cuba.
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