Since April, the Cuban government has ceased selling automobiles to Cuban citizens authorized to purchase these, thus eliminating the only mechanism through which Cubans could acquire a modern used vehicle put out of circulation by the country’s car rental agencies.
Read MoreNew generations of Cuban filmmakers are shooting shorts and features with very low production budgets and even setting up their own production houses, skirting the monopoly of the Cuban Film Art and Industry Institute.
Read MoreThis past weekend, Brazil welcomed the first 400 of a contingent of 4,000 Cuban medical doctors, hired to provide health services to populations living in the remotest and poorest areas of the Latin American giant.
Read MoreWhile nearly 200 thousand people got married in Cuba in 1992, the number barely exceeded 50 thousand in 2012. These figures appear to show that today’s generations of Cubans prefer common law partnerships over marriage. We’ll look at some of the reasons.
Read More“Every time I’d defend the Cuban revolution, people would retort: if you like it so much, why don’t you go live in Cuba?” Spanish actor Willy Toledo tells me, adding: “now that I’ve actually moved to Cuba, they’re going crazy, because there’s nothing they can say to me anymore.”
Read MoreEleven Cubans have died at the hands of other Cubans who thought stealing alcohol from their workplace and selling it on the black market was an easy way to make a quick buck. It’s not the first time something like this happens here, and it probably won’t be the last.
Read MoreThe new labor law stresses that the job of the union is to “represent the workers in defense of their interests and rights, as well as advocate the improvement of their working and living conditions.” Such aims call for radical changes.
Read More“We can’t lay the blame entirely on journalists or entirely on the media. We must lay the blame on the Party, in the first place, and we have to begin to criticize ourselves for what we have failed to do in order to develop our press,” said Cuban Vice-President Miguel Diaz Canel.
Read MoreThe newspaper of Cuba’s Communist Party has hit the roof because Cuban mothers have been left without disposable diapers and lays the blame on “unscrupulous” venders who hoard products in order to re-sell them at inflated prices. Let’s look at the reasons involved.
Read MoreMaking Cuba’s official discourse reflect more and more aspects of everyday reality may well be one of the most important political processes undertaken on the island today. President Raul Castro’s pronouncements Sunday to the parliament were a clear expression of this process.
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