“Is this discount for real? 10 cents, really?” I asked an employee at a foreign currency store (TRD) in the Supermarket in the Hermanos Cruz neighborhood, Pinar del Rio. In front of me? One-liter bottles of “Chocolate milk with coffee. Concentrated beverage,” produced by Lacteos Pradera.
Read MoreSurrounded by the crowds, a hand in a latex glove lightly probes his neck with two fingers; then they close his eyes, and take him to the hospital. But he was already dead. I saw his body and his face on the ground before they lifted him onto the ambulance stretcher.
Read MoreFilmmaker Jenny Murray has taken on the task of telling the story of the Nicaraguan revolution from the point of view of militant Sandinista women. Unfortunately, her film becomes lost in the labyrinth of the country’s mythology.
Read MoreCirle Tatis Arzuza (a Colombian YouTuber, anti-racism activist and advocate for Africa’s cultural heritage) experienced “unpleasant events” in Cuba because she looked Cuban. Let’s look at why.
Read MoreThe first thing that caught my attention in the speech of the Army Chief, Julio Cesar Aviles, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of that institution was what he didn’t say.
Read MoreCuba’s non-agricultural cooperatives will continue to be an “experiment”. This was the announcement that came from Yovana Vega Matos, Assistant Director of the Finetuning Department belonging to the Committee of Implementing the Communist Party Guidelines.
Read MoreFor now, a serious analysis would have to recognize that there is a correlation of forces tactically favorable to Ortega. And that the international environment, weakened, if it gets to negotiate with Ortega, with such negotiation does not intend to change this internal correlation of forces at all.
Read More“The support for Castroism revealed in resolution 62 of the recent Convention of the Democratic Socialists of the United States, held in Atlanta, Georgia, can only be explained by two reasons: either the American Socialist Democrats do not know the Cuban reality or they are not socialist or democratic.”
Read MoreRegarding the debate on social media about the value of criticism in Cuban society today, it would be worth remembering the function criticism has had as a decisive element to protect the Revolution. Its function has been irreplacable because it creates contradictions that allow us to really dig deep into socially difficult issues that tend to be outside of the government’s agenda.
Read MoreIt was 2012 when I started studying at the Workshop School that belongs to Havana City’s Historian Office. I had chosen to specialize in General Restoration, where you learned all about Mural Paintings.
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