The US Chamber of Commerce (USCC), one of the most powerful groups of political influence in the nation, will conduct a senior level trip to Cuba this month to explore the economic transformations undertaken by the government of Raul Castro.
Read MoreCuban authorities arrested American development worker Alan Gross in 2009 after his fifth trip to the island to set up a network of Internet hotspots. But Gross evidently wasn’t the only older Jewish man spotted in Cuba carrying out a mission for the U.S. government.
Read MoreTeam Cuba’s hard-hitting outfielder Alfredo Despaigne, currently under contract with the Campeche Pirates of the Mexican League (LMB), has been temporarily suspended over charges that he was using a false Dominican passport.
Read MoreThe arrest of four infiltrated anti-Castro militants from Miami, sent to attack military units, highlights the situation of some 20 Cuban-Americans, who upon leaving prison in Cuba are considered unwelcome by Washington.
Read MoreAn industrial engineer with a Master’s degree, Orelvis Bormey Torres, in his thirties, has created a brand and a prosperous business in Santa Clara, Cuba using peanuts as the basic product. He says 300 customers show up daily at the Bormey House of Peanuts.
Read MoreThe “experimental” opening to cooperatives in Cuba begins to show signs that it needs corrections. In most cases, cooperativism has meant the transfer of management to the salaried workers, who must pay rent to the business owner (the Cuban State), pay taxes and procure their own raw materials and clientele.
Read More“I’m 68 years old and it’s all the same to me. Our people need respect,” these were the opening words of one of my neighbor’s complaints, voiced during the official accountability meeting with our local representative. It was an apt preamble for what came next.
Read MoreTo expand on my previous post dealing with the central role the concept of “sustainable development” has played in the legitimation of Cuba’s current economic policies, I now wish to delve more deeply into the traps inherent to the concept and its potential to promote neo-liberalism in the country.
Read MoreThe Alfredo Lopez Libertarian Workshop, one of the autonomous collectives that make up the Observatorio Critico network in Cuba, along with the Cristo Salvador Gallery, has just announced that the first Primavera Libertaria (“Libertarian Spring”) will be held in Havana from May 11 to June 7 this year.
Read More#CubaNow said its ad campaign in Washington is aimed at pressuring President Obama to change US policy toward Cuba. The leader of a new advocacy group declined to name its private donors, saying it wanted to spare them from personal attacks.
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