Cuban security operative Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy just apologized (on his Spanish language blog) for having accused several personalities and intellectuals of working against the revolution, implicating them in the plans for a cyber-war orchestrated by the United States.
Read MoreVery soon we’ll have to read the Cuban press using technical dictionaries to allow us to understand what they’re talking about. Now, for example, they are telling us that something called Vibrio cholerae has been detected in the city of Manzanillo.
Read MoreRaul Castro has criticized false unanimity, but if there is an entity holding the undisputed record in this regard, it is Cuba’s parliament, which has legislated for almost four decades without a single deputy ever voting to the contrary.
Read MorePresident Raul Castro traveled a long way to meet with his closest ideological allies. Like Cuba, China and Vietnam are survivors of the shipwreck of “real socialism,” but the latter two have already left their lifeboats and are sailing in their own ships.
Read MoreThe US is complaining that Cuba’s banking system is not transparent, and that such a situation may have allowed some Cubans — refugees of “Communist persecution” — to hoodwink the American health care system and transfer money out of that country through a foreign bank that also operates on the island.
Read MoreSpanish photographer Enrique Meneses arrived in Cuba in 1957, and taking advantage of his stay on the island, he proposed climbing up into the Sierra Maestra Mountains to do a story on the guerrillas led by the young lawyer Fidel Castro.
Read MoreSome 20 former Cuban political prisoners have camped outside of Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for over two months. They are demanding a five-year extension of financial assistance, recognition of their university degrees and free health care coverage – including payments for dental treatment.
Read MoreIt’s understandable that communists try to promote public property over private property – that’s the essence of their ideology. However it’s also true that the manuals on Marxism say that practice is the criterion of truth.
Read More“The way forward is to give more power to citizens and to protect them legally. In this way, that pressure will change the behavior of government employees. Procedures should have clearly regulated steps and well-defined limits.”
Read MoreElias Carranza, a senior UN official for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders Institute, said Cuba is the safest country in the region. It is free of the critical situation of violence that characterizes the continent, with the island having made great achievements in reducing crime.
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