According to Fox News, the “most dangerous man on the planet” will be visiting Cuba in the coming days. For them, Francis is an incendiary Pope who travels around the world condemning capitalism for its inequalities, injustice and consumerism.
Read MoreSome years ago, foreign journalists working in Cuba found out about a series of regulations applied to their work (thanks to an information leak). They had kept these regulations a secret, making it very difficult for us to follow them. This illustrates the main issue faced by the Cuban press: no one knows the rules of the game or the divisions of the playing field.
Read MoreThe future of its children, the national economy and Cuban culture depends on the accessibility and quality of education. To lose the nation’s main source of income by not investing enough in teachers would be tantamount to suicide.
Read More“The biggest economic mistake we made was thinking that building socialism would guarantee development,” one of the Cuba’s most reputable economists said to me. It was something of an informal conversation, but that idea stuck in my head.
Read MoreI’ve been teaching a postgraduate course on journalistic ethics at a university outside of Cuba. Even though this country’s reality is very different from the island’s, researching and preparing for my lectures has made me think a lot about Cuban journalism.
Read MoreThe dissident group the Ladies in White are not pleased with being excluded from the official opening today at the US embassy in Havana. Their leader Berta Soler accused Washington of having buckled to pressure from the Cuban regime.
Read MoreIn his speech, delivered in English and partially in Spanish, the Secretary of State acknowledged that the decision as to Cuba’s political system must be made exclusively by Cubans.
Read MoreUS Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Havana at nine in the morning on Friday. Kerry came to reopen the US embassy 54 years after Washington broke diplomatic, economic and commercial relations with the country.
Read MoreCuba still has a socialist system, dissidents continue to be outlawed, there are no multi-party elections, the bulk of the economy is State run and confiscated US properties have not been returned to their former owners.
Read MoreThe official Granma newspaper published a “moving” note on the driver of a horse drawn cart charging a nurse five pesos to bring her to her home. “This is supply and demand, Miss, take it or leave it, and if don’t like it you’ll have to get down,” said the “heartless” self-employed driver.
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