Over the past few days, the Cuban press has been flooded with articles and news reports about the government’s last propaganda gold mine: unused or slow-moving products. In their tenacious quest to find excuses for the national economic disaster, they have found something new to blame.
Read MoreRecent news, not only in Havana, speak about a noticeable increase in civic protests, both individual and group, in the face of different situations which regularly meet the absurdity of a widespread and chronic socio-economic and political crisis.
Read MoreAfter having remained in power for eleven years, leading a corrupt regime that demolished the democratic institutions and concentrated all state powers under his control, Ortega had the opportunity to corroborate his supposed democratic convictions regarding civic struggle. He failed completely.
Read MoreWe don’t really know the exact scale of the corruption in Cuba. Figures on corruption aren’t published and most cases punishable by law aren’t published by pro-government media. We only know about the ones which are in the government’s political or strategic interest, which circulate on cell phones or by well-known “gossip”.
Read MoreWill Diaz Canel be another great waste of time like Raul Castro? Will a better Cuba start with the new president? While time makes this clear, I can either wish or flee. Eros or Thanatos.
Read MoreDear Luis Almagro, I understand that it’s difficult for you to assimilate the fact that Daniel Ortega, one of the nine leaders of the Sandinista Revolution, has become a dictator. How can you ask us to “strengthen the democratic institutions” of the Ortega dictatorship if there IS no democracy?
Read MoreFour decades ago, the popular armed insurrection deposed the dictator Anastasio Somoza, while the FSLN presented itself as the only protagonist, baptizing the process as the “triumph of the Sandinista Revolution”. Today we Nicaraguans are experiencing a kind of déjà vu with the new dictator Daniel Ortega…
Read MoreOn June 2nd 2018, a special session of the National Assembly of People’s Power was held, with 35 members absent, which is a lot for their first meeting. On that day, important agendas for Cuba’s present and future were passed without any kind of discussion.
Read MoreThe civic struggle, headed by the university students, stands out for their refusal to use the methods of war to confront the State repression against Nicaraguan society. The densely populated citizen marches and the roadblocks are their principal instruments of struggle.
Read MoreEver since Miguel Mario Diaz Canel was formally named President by the National Assembly of People’s Power on April 19th, he has made it clear that his mission isn’t to bring about change in Cuba but to ensure continuity.
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