After fighting a successful offensive to power, Latin America’s Left is now retreating. Cuba was always the leader of this movement and the region recognized it as its guiding beacon, but now it is languishing. Recent events unfolding (Nicaragua) point to a pathological infection which has spread from the Caribbean’s largest island.
Read MoreIn the coming days the government will once again show the world how happy those of us who live under their nonsensical laws are, during the 18th National Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, to be hosted this year in the western province of Pinar del Rio.
Read MoreI want a Social Bank in the Cuba I hope my children live in. Private banks are like any other business: profit oriented. A Social Bank would be oriented towards converting national savings into productive investments by financing businesspeople and companies…
Read MoreI arrived in Santiago de Chile, on a one-way flight direct from Havana in July 2004. On October 21st, I was working on an international poets gathering that was being organized.
Read MoreCuba’s so-called “socialism” has been an appropriation of property and using all of the country’s resources, snatched from millions of hands to be concentrated in the few who have done what they wanted to with all of a country’s financial resources.
Read MoreAlthough dozens of suspects for these crimes have been identified by the population and the victims’ family members, and the proof has been displayed in the independent media and the social networks, not a single member of the paramilitary has been detained nor has any police officier been separated from their post in order to undergo an investigation…
Read MoreNobody would think that someone could be punished in Cuba, a country which aims for social equality, for the sole crime of fighting against gender equality. However, this is what happened to Alas Tensas magazine, a feminist publication which is directed by Ileana Alvarez.
Read MoreThe responses of the presidential couple to the events of the week of April 18th were so contrary to how one might expect you can’t help but wonder if they have already lost all connection with reality.
Read MoreIt’s crucial these days to keep our eyes wide open as regards the government maneuverings to delegitimize the popular rebellion in Nicaragua.
Read MoreAn exceptional window into Cuba’s political ins and outs was opened on April 19th. On that day, Raul Castro Ruz formally passed on the position of Head of State and Government to Miguel Diaz-Canel.
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