Ten years ago, I flew across the Amazon Jungle, amazed by its immensity though also alarmed by scares where thick greenery had been cleared away and substituted by dismal remains of dead trees, or dry cattle pastures and soy plantations.
Read MoreToday, Havana Times is publishing a reader’s account about something that happened in her childhood; it is never too late to speak out, to reflect upon what happened, to warn others.
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Read MoreAmong the dozens of photos that the days of repression against the “vandalizers” have left us, one of the most iconic shows six elderly men sitting at a table while one on foot paces left to right with a leaden step, as if presenting a tableau of the trajectory of the FSLN leadership.
Read MoreThroughout these stormy months, the Civic Alliance is the organization that led the negotiations with the regime, having nothing less than the present and the future of the entire country on the table…
Read MoreShe wakes up early like she does every day, or rather she wakes up at the crack of dawn. Her biological clock is her main alarm clock every day. She washes and makes the bed in no time at all.
Read MoreCuba’s reality for the past 60 years has been marked by the administrative control of the economy, which prominently includes price controls, a decisive aspect of centrally planned economies.
Read MoreLittle by little people who once supported the Sandinista government headed by Daniel Ortega have become aware of the ex-guerrilla’s transformation from liberator to oppressor as the country has come full circle over the last 40 years.
Read MoreI don’t know how much importance can be given to the refusal by Ortega-Murillo to continue with the dialogue. I think that at the international level the announcement will act like a boomerang that will fall on them.
Read MoreThe essence of the MeToo movement still hasn’t taken firm root in Cuba. The country prefers to remain tied up in its statistics and slogans. The numbers given for the number of women in the national workforce, at university, working in professions that were thought of as “male” in the past, and overall achievements, are real, there’s no doubt about that. However…
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