It has always been said that Cuba is a traveling museum, due to all the cars from the 1950s that still move through our streets. For more than two decades, these relics contributed a part of the urban transportation that responds to the service of private collective taxis.
Read More“How much did they pay you for serving the murderers and condemning the innocent?” writes the dentist and merchant Irlanda Jerez from prison to the judge that sentenced her and numerous other protestors to long prison sentences.
Read MoreVivir del cuento is perhaps the most popular “made in Cuba” TV show that my fellow Cubans on the island watch. In one of its most recent episodes, Panfilo (this old man who struggles with Cuba’s shortages today) has found a wallet. Taking a peek, Panfilo is more excited about finding a whole strip of duralgina tablets than a large sum of money in euros. Read why…
Read MoreIt’s 9 pm and I am on the street, pacing up and down, holding a dog. His name will be Percy but neither of us know it yet. He’s gravely sick with distemper virus and in a comatose state, mucous dripping from his eyes and nose. I had noticed him in Havana’s most picturesque park where tour guides, horse carts and street dogs jostle for the attention of tourists.
Read MoreLast Thursday, under the protest of the student movement, the Civic Alliance rejoined negotiations with the Ortega dictatorship, with the Vatican’s representative as a witness, when the Organization of American States conditioned its participation as international guarantor of the Dialogue under the condition of the release of all the political prisoners.
Read MoreThe Cuban countryside is in crisis. In spite of its vast potential and still being one of the country’s greatest treasures, it doesn’t yield what it should or can. The Communist government’s failed economic model prevents its development and efficiency, like a straitjacket.
Read More“The the crisis in Venezuela is the result of the cumulative impacts of 20 years of internal and external economic war, financial blockade, and sanctions. The mainstream narrative attributes the crisis to incompetence and corruption, but these also plague most Latin American countries.
Read MoreThere isn’t a time in the day here in Cuba when we don’t have to look at our wallets with sadness or up at the heavens. Our baseball players normally do the latter when they hit a home run, they lift their arms and eyes up to the infinite heavens, thanking God Almighty, when they haven’t ever stepped foot inside a church.
Read MoreEven though the courageous university students raised their voices against the dictatorship this week inside the Central American University, we’re still falling like chumps into the dictator’s game. I’m not referring to the fact that the Civic Alliance reached an agreement with the dictatorship’s representatives for a “roadmap”, that doesn’t meet our expectations…
Read MoreRussian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping have both defended an authoritarian model of capitalism, which could be called “development with a dictator’s face”. So it should come as no surprize that they both try to save the endebted government of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from collapse.
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