The Cuban press is out to get re-sellers, as though their existence were news to anyone, as though they just now realized there is a black market that’s on every street corner in the country, selling just about everything one can sell. However, the reporting remains on the surface, addressing the effects but not daring to go to the root of a problem.
Read MoreTwenty years ago, a massive exodus of Cuban rafters – some 35 thousand left the country – marked the beginning of the end for this type of illegal emigration. Washington and Havana reached an agreement whereby all Cubans captured at sea would be returned to the island.
Read More“A girl died and 32 others were injured Tuesday when a truck used to transport passengers overturned in eastern Cuba,” reported the Cuban press as part of a campaign for greater road safety.
Read MoreThe US government had to skip over the Cuban-American community if it wanted its resources to actually reach the dissidents. That is how the idea of hiring other US citizens and Latin Americans to smuggle communications equipment and financial resources into Cuba probably arose.
Read MoreThe Havana airport administrator says there are many other airport terminals in the world where entry is forbidden to persons accompanying a passenger, but did not name any of them. While that appears to be an exaggeration, there is at least one in Asmara, Eritrea.
Read MoreJournalist Fernando Ravsberg describes his astonishment at the statement by Leovigildo Jones, vice-director of the Jose Marti International Airport, who justified the closing off of the facility to non-travelers by saying that many airports in the world do the same.
Read MoreAn old joke says that, had Jesus Christ been Cuban, he would never have been crucified because, if you’re lucky to get your hands on a hammer in Cuba, you’ll soon find out that nails are few and far between and wood is nowhere to be found.
Read MoreFew times does one witness – within the course of 50 years – a historical cycle like the one Cuba and Russia have just closed. Relations between the two countries will of course not be guided by the same parameters, but the fact of the matter is that Havana and Moscow are once again aware that they need one another.
Read MoreThe Cuban gov. has finally decided to throw agriculture a life line, eliminating part of the bureaucratic apparatus that is stifling it. Some 6,400 administrative positions have disappeared with the State entity responsible for distributing the fruits of farm production.
Read MoreCuba’s Comptroller’s office turns five years old and the anniversary is celebrated with the most important corruption trial in recent years, with heavy prison sentences requested for prominent foreign businessmen and top Cuban officials.
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