Please don’t confuse democratic socialism with the chaos in Venezuela, Cuba’s totalitarian government and the USSR’s history. Anyone who does this runs the risk of being labeled a hooligan or a fool.
Read MoreThe Cuban system is entering a renewed Special Period crisis, at a dizzying rate. While the former never really ended, the current worsening of this calamity, after a more relaxed time with fewer shortages, makes us see it in a different light.
Read MoreWhy am I mentioning what I learned at school? Well, because I’ve been thinking about the laws that shape a country’s economic development and that, whether we like them or not, they are followed to a T here in Cuba, in China or Bulgaria.
Read More“A new Special Period is on the horizon” is the word on the street. People are afraid because in spite of current shortages and how hard it is just to get by, many people remember that that was a particularly dark time in modern day Cuban history.
Read MoreTourism experts should add a new reason to their vast portfolio for why people in Cuba want to travel abroad: quite simply to sort out consular papers and suitcases so they can leave, almost always for good.
Read MoreI have a good friend who I always used to enjoy sharing things with, as long as we didn’t talk about politics. We agreed that we would do our best not to talk about the subject because we didn’t know how to have a calm and healthy conversation about it, and whenever we did, we ended up feeling resentful for a little while.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega must cease his persecution of journalists and the campaign of intimidation and threats against the media. He must order the State to suspend the acts of confiscation against Confidencial and 100% Noticias, return the stolen property, and compensate those affected.
Read MoreI still remember that morning of the first day of the school year, in September 1986. I felt good, waiting for the bus that would take me to the junior high boarding school (7th-9th grade) in the Sandino municipality, over 80 kms from my home, in Pinar del Rio province as well.
Read More“God helps those who help themselves”, is the title of a collection of proverbs that Carlos Monsivais published as a book. The Ortega government has brought to light their own version of helping yourself, passed on Saturday, June 8th, in the form of a new parliamentary initiative: the amnesty law.
Read MoreI write this as a loser in the Great Cruise Ship Wars in my hometown Key West, Florida— Havana’s sister city to the north. I have witnessed first-hand the virtual destruction of this once-peaceful (if somewhat quirky) island paradise in the turbulent wake of cruise ships.
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