Haroldo Dilla

I believe that Cuba, like any other country in the world, has the right and is obliged to defend its human resources and the investments it has been made in them. But it cannot do this in just any manner…

Raul Castro’s government has given birth to the “updating” of the nation’s immigration policy. Regulations have been relaxed, irritating fees have been eliminated, and contacts between islanders and Cuban émigrés are going to be facilitated.

If at the end of this story we succeed in establishing a social-democratic order in Cuba, I think we will have achieved much more than what lofty rhetoric holds.

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez seems to think that putting a stamp in passports giving Cuba’s “patriots and respectful” the right to return occasionally, is a revolutionary act.

Cuba’s leaders like decisive and overwhelming victories, which is what they have proclaimed to the world for five decades. While it’s true that they’ve never been able to overcome economic inefficiencies, they did achieve crushing military victories several times, from the Bay of Pigs to Cuito Cuanavale (in Angola).

The corruption that prevails in Cuba today is that which occurs in the process of the primitive accumulation of capital by a political elite in its bourgeois metamorphosis.

The main failure of the post-revolutionary Cuban education system was the elimination of disorder, variation and diversity as essential educational elements.

Asking for freedom of the press and information in Cuba while condemning Julian Assange for trying to do this on the international level is an example of the political bipolarity that characterizes the Cuban scenario.

We cannot fear dialogue if we want a better future for Cuba. Dialogue — between friends and foes — is imperative in today’s Cuba. We need it for change in Cuba, but also for changing ourselves.

Maybe one day someone will calculate how much Fidel Castro’s ignorant and voluntarist schemes have cost us. The recent call by the commandante for people to eat moringa plants was the buffoonish version of a past tragedy.