As the affected residents, we agreed to follow up on our complaints through three neighborhood committees that would attend to each phase of the complaint process, leaving an appeal to the Central Committee of the Communist Party as our ultimate step.
Read MoreIt’s very common to hear people in Cuba say that under capitalism you really have to work because everything is invented there. In this are two meanings: the first is that you can live without working in Cuba, or at least without seriously working.
Read MoreTourism is a word that often comes up between Cubans; not because they take vacation cruises to the Canary Islands, but because they are habitually tripping over these visitors who in a not so indirect a manner add to the growth of the GDP.
Read MoreI’m not too surprised, the reason for this situation is too evident: the workers in these stores often jack up the prices, almost arbitrarily, for one simple reason: their wages aren’t enough to support them and they have no other remedy.
Read MoreThose who should have the right to choose what is the best or worst of TeleSUR are the Cuban viewers (especially since we are the owners of 20 percent of the station), and we should execute that entitlement exclusively through our TV remote control buttons. I believe that the moment to implement such a possibility is now, precisely because of the events in Honduras.
Read MoreMany suffer from family stress, or from the poor quality of the food in certain diners for old people who have no family care. Some spend their days going back and forth from the market to the bakery, always alert to what has just come in to eat and standing in long lines to obtain the food.
Read MoreTrivial, it was an incident of no importance; much worse things happen in the world. Yet the matter is that this humiliation of personal integrity is constant, wherever you go. The result is a feeling of defenseless in the face of the machinery, which I swear doesn’t generate anything good for this country.
Read MoreI first began by making complaints to the company that built these homes, and later to the Communist Party and to the city government that represents our area. Eventually the company wound up acknowledging the poor state of the home construction.
Read MoreA few years ago, a carpenter used to work alongside our house. With my father’s consent, he set up a little workshop there and paid us 400 pesos a month (about $16 USD) as rent. Over time the carpenter became friends with my father, who then reduced his rate to 300 pesos.
Read MoreCoppelia is Havana’s most famous ice-cream parlor. It’s huge, almost a whole square block. It’s even more famous because you can buy the ice cream in regular national currency, as opposed to hard currency – a rare occurrence in this country.
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