“One day I was in training and they told me that I was going to run the 800 meters in the Olympics. I was scared because my event was the 400. I thought I might get run out of gas in the competition that wasn’t mine and I wouldn’t be able to win medals in either the 400 or the 800.”
Read MoreIn Cuba, there are two ways of doing things: the easy way and the bureaucratic way. No matter how positive a law might be, the bureaucrats will always find a way to transform it into an all-consuming bog, one from which you can only escape with their assistance – which of course is never disinterested.
Read MoreThrough the Gaceta Oficial legal news periodical, Cuban police have cited the names of three islanders accused of corruption in falsifying banking and commercial documents.
Read MoreI can only imagine the confusion of young people if they happen to contrast the history that’s “in the books” with the transformations taking place today in the country. It will be an arduous task to convince them of the need for change without acknowledging that mistakes were made.
Read MoreThe number of prisoners in Cuban jails is 57,337, a figure just revealed by the official Granma newspaper after decades of silence on the issue. This total places Cuba in a better position than the US, a country with more than 700 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants.
Read More“If you look at the number of medals compared to the size of the population, Cuba is the country in first or second place in the world,” says Arnaldo Rivero, the national teaching director of the Cuban Institute of Sports and Recreation (INDER).
Read MoreThis week marks the anniversary of the signing into law of Cuba’s Agrarian Reform, which transformed the life of tens of thousands of peasant families who were subject to the cruelest forms of misery, as a 1957 survey of the Catholic University Group documented.
Read MoreIn a recent interview, the Cuban-American writer Uva de Aragon told me that the emigration of thousands of intelligent young Cubans does not constitute “brain drain,” but their “escape” in search of better opportunities in other countries.
Read MoreCuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega provoked the ire of anti-Castro groups inside and outside Cuba, following a conference at Harvard University, where he criticized dissidents who occupied churches before the Pope’s arrival this past March.
Read MoreWhen they told me about the idea of holding a meeting of blogueros (bloggers), I thought it would be a good opportunity to join forces and gain ground. As long as there is respect for the freedom of opinions that should guide all human beings.
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