How is it possible that in Cuba, a country run by the working class, there is nothing to reflect the lifestyle of working families, in the factories, farms and in their homes? How can it be that the press offers no reflection of the economic situation of workers’ salaries.<
Read MoreDuring the last two years I haven’t had a lot of free time, but I feel that I’ve learned important things that are helping me to grow as a person. Those valuable lessons were precisely in those areas that were not taught to me in school.
Read MoreWe quickly found a place to stay the night, and for 40 pesos MN (US $2). It was a comfortable place, with a bathroom, front room and kitchenette. We didn’t have a lot of money, and we needed it to last us the entire week.
Read MoreAs of a few months ago, we’ve been seeing positive changes in everything related to education. From the time of the Special Period [the crisis years beginning in the early 1990s], the Ministry of Education seemed to have been run by a bureaucrat who was not only incompetent but also blind and deaf.
Read MoreI talked about the Cuban people’s resistance, their capacity to stoically withstand whatever comes along, just to keep us from falling. Falling to where, I wonder? Aren’t we already lying, curled up on the ground comfortably and quietly grumbling, letting others run our lives?
Read MoreA few years ago I had the opportunity to get to know several Iranians who were receiving training at my same research center. I was impressed by the fresh vision of the world that many of them had – so contrary to how we imagined the views of Muslims.
Read MoreYesterday my father went to a store to buy a towel. The saleswoman looked at him and declared, “Here we charge in hard currency” and then turned her back. To her it appeared that he was incapable of possessing the other Cuban money (CUC). To her my father looked like somebody unworthy of her attention.
Read MoreI’ve been traveling around various towns and talking with people over the past several days. What I’ve found is that although a few months have passed since the expulsions from key government posts of two relatively young leaders, Carlos Lage and Felipe Perez Roque, this is an issue that remains alive in people’s consciousness.
Read MoreI began to make excuses, knowing full well that these two Argentine ladies were absolutely right. They told me that they understood my reasoning, but that they had walked through the entire area and that it was all flooded with garbage.
Read MoreAt the beginning of the year, I warned of an eminent conservative shift as well as the gradual decline of progressive experiences, born out of the coordination of social protest and institutional reform that has typified the past decade in Latin America.
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