“The first thing is to get settled and establish myself and to later look for some job. I’ll work for any place that pays me enough money to rent an apartment and buy things for myself – something I haven’t been able to do here.”
Read More“Even today, despite the apparent freedom, women are also caught between two alternatives: either I’m a feminist and I fight against men, or I’m a lesbian. These are the only two possibilities for escape, at least if you don’t realize that there’s another possibility – not one of escape, but of liberation,” says Ruben Lombida.
Read More“I wanted to help change my country for the better, but I wasn’t able to because the changes that I thought would improve it were considered inadmissible, and I believe they still are,” says Julio de la Yncera, an HT reader.
Read More“For some time in Cuba, we have seen the development of a national debate geared towards shaping, renovating, and re-establishing —as I prefer to say— our community and national efforts. This debate has limits, but it also has vitality,” says Roberto Veiga Gonzalez in an interview with HT.
Read More“Today, more than ever, coordination is necessary between the private sector, the public sector and civil society. Solidarity economics contributes new forms of non-State public ownership that defends the interests of the people and not of capital,” said Cristina Calvo in Havana.
Read More“In terms of what to do, there’s promoting freedom; increasing the spaces for study, debate and non-policed criticism of social behavior; increasing educational activities around obligations and duties that relate to citizens before the law, as well as generating and “making” more social justice,” said Victor Fowler in an interview with HT.
Read MoreAround ten years ago, with the problem of the shortage of teachers in the classroom, there appeared another set of emergency solutions: the Fast Track Teachers for elementary schools and the Integral General Teachers (PGI) program for teaching several subjects at junior high school.
Read MoreAlso, dogs are excellent guards. A security guard can be sleeping, but the dog remains alert. Recently a dog was honored at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology because it prevented the robbery of two air conditioners. Sometime around 9:30 at night, the dog went to the entrance gate and began barking and indicating that something was in the area.
Read MoreYasser Gonzalez Prieto (a baker by profession) is 36 years old and lives in the Alamar community, on the outskirts of Havana. This is also where he works, though in a way that is somewhat atypical. He has been on the payroll of one of the bakeries in this neighborhood for about a year but doesn’t have to go to work.
Read MoreOne of the most important things that we are currently involved in is an investigation of journalists who were receiving payments from the federal government while they covered the case of the Five in a very hostile and damaging manner.
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