Changes in the Cuban government are slated for 2018, although the President is the only one who is planned to be replaced. The landscape in which the new leader will take the reins of power is one of a nation which is half-way across the river, with a reform process that is pretty much paralyzed and even moving backwards…
Read MoreAs Cubans awaited the New Year, we spoke with several in Havana about their expectations. One enraged man outside the Gothic church on Reina Street said: “They (the leaders) spend all day pointing the finger at each other while we, the underdogs, go from bad to worse.
Read MoreThe performances of Matanzas and Las Tunas stood out, the latter with their best result ever, while the team from the capital (Industriales) took advantage of their good first half, because in the second they lost more than they won. Meanwhile, Granma hopes to repeat last years crown.
Read MoreConversation over New Year’s dinners in Havana will surely include Ernesto Daranas Serrano’s lastest movie Sergio y Serguei. Set at the end of the Soviet Union and the start of the Special Period, this melodrama pokes fun at dogmatism and corruption while celebrating transnational person-to-person ties and grassroots initiative.
Read MoreDuring this year that is now drawing to an end, the private sector of the economy has received several blows with cooperatives, restaurants and night clubs being shut down, as well as new licenses being suspended for the most profitable and popular types of businesses.
Read MoreOur publication is now in its 10th year and to date we haven’t accepted any advertising on the site. Several potential advertisers had asked us over the years but we were never ready to begin. Now with our new web design we are ready to offer those interested in some limited advertising spaces on our publication. Photo: Ania Krupatow
Read MoreA recent survey about gender equality, presented to the National Assembly’s current legislative body, confirms that 27% of the population surveyed has suffered acts, both physical and psychological, of gender violence in the past 12 months. The survey carried out in 2016 has yet to be published and only some fragments of data are known.
Read MoreDealing with North Korea has become a real headache for many international leaders. Concessions and a soft-handed approach haven’t stopped the North Korean Communist regime’s nuclear program; on the other hand, sanctions and threats have only served as an excuse for dictator Kim Jong-un to hike up his warmongering fanaticism.
Read MoreThe Tepesomoto hill, 231 kilometers from Managua, offers a rainy season panorama of green and navy blue. Marely Albir Figueroa, 16, is all too familiar with this view. She gets up at 4 in the morning to fetch water from the well near her community; on the way back, with the heavy container on her small head, she watches the dawn in its full splendor.
Read MoreCorruption in Venezuela’s state-controlled oil industry, denounced by the government itself and where former ministers and senior managers are behind bars, is the most recent piece of evidence that the country with the greatest oil reserves on the planet, the sector its economy depends upon, is collapsing.
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