The Director of the Office of the Mariel Special Development Zone presents as an achievement that eight companies have been approved since it was created in 2013 and where today only three of them are operational. Undoubtedly the idea of moving forward but without haste has been taken very seriously.
Read MoreFernando Ravsberg: “I’m not asking for subsidies; my wish for 2016 is that milk and other staples foods are put in stores at market price without ridiculous taxes that punish the poorest, depriving them of access to them.”
Read MoreIf the economic essence of socialism is that “the means of production are in the hands of the people,” no company structure would represent that system better than a cooperative. We could say it is the “socialist people’s company” par excellence. However, in Cuba, it’s not that simple.
Read MoreI was interviewing doctors about to leave for Brazil when my office phoned me to tell me Alan Gross had been released from prison and was flying back to his country. I assumed Cuba’s three agents (of the Cuban Five), had also been released and that they would soon be back in Havana.
Read MoreI don’t like to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the results of Venezuela’s elections should make us entertain the possibility that Chavismo could lose the next presidential elections, depriving Cuba of its main economic partner, which supplies the island with oil.
Read MoreDespite the many signals prior to the “crisis” of Cuban migrants in Costa Rica, the situation seems to have taken those who control Cuba’s press entirely by surprise. This would help explain why they took more than a week to react to developments.
Read MoreThe US State Department came out on Tuesday in support on of the decision by the Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega to close its border to thousands of Cuban migrants.
Read MoreAs reports of three new Ebola cases arrive from Liberia, the medical doctor who headed Cuba’s largest campaign against the virus in Africa, Jorge Delgado, offered Publico an exclusive interview. Delgado is a veteran internationalist: “I have worked in Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea Bissau.”
Read MoreCuba’s economic reforms remind me of those rivers that begin to swell as they flow downhill. To try and set a pre-established pace for these changes is like thinking that one can make a raft stop in the middle of the river.
Read MoreBack in the 90s, Cuban humorists were already mocking the partiality of the press. Despite this, everything remained the same because nothing “threatened” it, there was no “alternative” source of information. Today the situation is different.
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