Yesterday I got up early as always, but I guess I was moving more quickly than usual, since by 6:50 I was already at the bus stop to see if I could get the 7 a.m. bus and save myself the trouble of hitchhiking, or the 2 pesos for a collective horse-drawn taxi.
Read MoreChilean businessman Roberto Gabriel Baudrand Valdes, who was found dead in his apartment on April 13, died of “acute respiratory insufficiency” related to the consumption of medicines and alcohol, states the Cuban government in an official note published on Friday.
Read MoreOne of the priorities of the process of change undertaken by Cuban President Raul Castro is apparently curbing corruption, which threatens to undermine the country from the inside.
Cuban academic Esteban Morales wrote in an article in which he said corruption is “much more dangerous than the so-called internal dissidents” in this one-party socialist state.
Read MoreIn Cuba these days we are seeing concerts in support of the Revolution, ceremonies of patriotic demands at workplaces, fiery statements in the press by readers, and speeches by those who remind people they mustn’t yield – “not even an inch.”
The siege mentality returns in the face of the “foreign threat” —embodied this time by the United States and the European Union— which in words of Raul Castro have launched an “enormous smear campaign against Cuba.”
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez traveled early Thursday from Managua to Havana for consultations with his close allies President Raul and Fidel Castro. Cuba and Venezuela were the two founding members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) and Chavez country is Castro’s leading trade partner.
Read MoreUS President Barack Obama will meet today with conservative representatives of the Cuban exile community for a cocktail fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee to be held in at the home of singer Gloria Estefan in Miami. It is expected that during the activity the president will be urged again to take a hard line for political change in Cuba and drop any ideas of renewed diplomatic relations with the Castro government.
Read MoreA test of the election organization takes place this coming Sunday throughout Cuba in preparation for voting for local representatives a week later on April 25.
Read MoreThe Mexican Senate did not vote on a resolution of condemnation of the existence of prisoners of conscience in Cuba since the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) withdrew its support because it considered it interventionist and in keeping with a U.S. campaign against the island.
Read MoreThe Chilean government demanded that Cuba carry out an “exhaustive investigation” of the death of businessman Roberto Baudrand, who was the general manager of the Río Zaza food producer, a joint venture currently under investigation by the District Attorney’s Office, according to the South American country’s Foreign Ministry. Baudrand yesterday appeared dead in his apartment in the island’s capital,.
Read MoreWhenever the final stage of the baseball championships gets here, I always wonder the same thing: Why can’t we Cubans discuss the other truly monumental issues that also affect our lives in the same continuous and open way…with the same passion?
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