“If time has ever taught us anything, it’s to appreciate subtleties. The draft Constitution, which the Cuban government is pushing forward, is full of these. There’s no doubt that this draft involves more than one positive thing, when it comes to giving a legal framework to the country’s government.” However, here is why Haroldo Dilla supports a NO vote.
Read MoreWhy does a government that has more than 20,000 guardians of (dis)order—between the Police and the military—and several thousand paramilitaries need to detain with an excessive use of force, as if it were Osama Bin Laden resurrected, a 78-year-old lady that was doing nothing more than providing water to participants in the protest demonstrations?
Read MoreCuba’s housing situation and infrastructure on the whole are in a critical condition. This country is almost entirely falling apart. Of course, this is the result of many factors, but they all directly or indirectly relate to the country’s economic, political and social system which has proven to be dysfunctional.
Read MoreNicaragua’s April uprising, largely spearheaded by university students, can be understood by comparing it to past student protests against the first two Somozas. As befits any historical comparison, there are differences that come to the fore.
Read MoreI defend every person or group’s right to freely speak their minds and to defend their opinion no matter how mistaken I might think it is. Freedom of speech is one of those fragile but important belongings which it is better to misuse than to limit with restrictions that are so appealing for those who hold power.
Read MoreIn an interesting turn of events, Cuba’s Ministry of Interior Commerce announced that it has drawn up a list of 48 basic items to establish quantity limits on purchases at state-owned retail stores which sell non-rationed products.
Read MoreAs a result of their madness, fear and self-deception, they are trying to suppress our most elementary civil liberties, crumpling—as when throwing a paper in the toilet—the Nicaraguan Constitution. The Ortega-Murillo government continues to impose a de facto police state.
Read MoreZoilamerica Narvaez Murillo, the stepdaughter of President Daniel Ortega, whom in 1998 she accused of 19 years of abuse and rape, said today that the president clings to power “to feel he’s the leader and messiah” and that he intends to convert Nicaragua “into a jail.”
Read MoreA few days ago, on September 24th, the UN held a Peace Summit called the “Nelson Mandela Peace Summit” in honor of the centennial of his birth this year. Who doubts this wasn’t a fair tribute? Quite likely, not even his political adversaries, supporters of apartheid, did.
Read MoreEver since I graduated from the university, I dreamed about leaving the country. At least, that’s what I thought. I’d planned to apply for scholarships and leave for another country, because many people told me that my country was small and I needed to see the world.
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