Personally, I can’t help but feel like the Venezuelan crisis is affecting my life two-fold: as a Cuban and as a democratic socialist. As a Cuban because, every day, I suffer the adverse economic consequences of our national economy’s absolute dependency on the solvency of its partner of the hour, just like all Cubans do. And, that partner has been Venezuela over the past two decades.
Read MoreIt has been a month since Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, declared that he assumed the powers of the Venezuelan presidency – currently in the possession of Nicolás Maduro – and the political crisis in the country is far from over.
Read More“The main power that the Civic Alliance has is to get up from the table if Ortega tries to prolong the talks unnecessarily or persists in unacceptable positions in the dialogue,” affirms Luis Carrion, a member of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) and of the Blue and White Unity coalition, of which the Civic Alliance is part.
Read MoreToday, I am 10 years old and I am still here, in the same place I was born and I continue with my life cycle: growing and shrinking, like almost all of my twin brothers and sisters in the city. Sometimes, I grow so much that I become a giant.
Read MoreWe are at the threshold of negotiations between representatives of the Civic Alliance and Daniel Ortega. It is no longer called dialogue. It is important that we analyze the starting point well, to help us glimpse how far we can go.
Read MoreIt seems that the State washes its hands of medicine shortages, such as the situation of neglect that is now affecting cancer patients. They probably blame the embargo, and public health professionals repeat the phrase: “Down with the blockade”, as if it were their mantra..
Read MoreIn a move to balance power in the Western hemisphere Russian President Vladimir Putin and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel denounced U.S. “interference into domestic affairs of sovereign nations.” In an effort to secure what Diaz-Canel, who replaced President Raul Castro in April invited Putin to visit Cuba next year calling the ties between the two nations “brotherly.”
Read MoreWell, a little after 3 PM on Monday, Alina Balseiro (president of the National Election Commission) revealed the preliminary results of the Constitutional Referendum that was held in Cuba on February 24th, which resulted in a comfortable win for the YES vote, which implies that Cuba will soon have a new Carta Magna.
Read MoreOn February 24th, Cuba’s new Consitution was voted in, and as always in post-revolutionary politics, it was without any surprises and had a predictable outcome. This is the third constitution to be born in the nation’s life as a Republic (ever since 1902), and the second ever since the Revolution triumphed in 1959.
Read MoreSince the dialogue was made public, much of the population actually distrusts it, not only because the initiative was taken by Ortega, but also, because it is known intuitively that a political negotiation during a governing crisis does not happen out of good will (as the naive say). Instead, it is imposed by the one who has the advantage.
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