If you ask any Cuban to list the most pressing economic problems that need to be solved, they will mention our dual currency. While the government insists on how difficult it is to resolve the problem, Repatriado believes it is not really that difficult.
Read MoreIt’s as if the term “civil society” and its meaning don’t matter at all regarding Cuba. If it weren’t such a serious subject, and even an embarrassing one in our case, it would make you laugh.
Read MoreIt is a fact that such limited incomes have created an army of former state employees who have been forced to take jobs in the private sector with awful working conditions, but where they do earn considerably more pay.
Read MoreSaturday March 24th will go down in US history as the day that schoolchildren, young people, their parents took to the streets to shout, “Enough” and “No to violence!”
Read MoreIn Cienfuegos, the city I live in, hearing bakers hawk their bread is a very common thing. They aren’t bakers though really, as they don’t make bread, they just sell it on the street.
Read MoreThe Cuban state-owned press is focusing on its shoe-shining role, to polish up an election result which bestows upon Russia’s new Tsar six more years in government to rule with an iron fist, according to his own strange way of understanding democracy.
Read MoreIn personality, Chilean women call the shots, there’s no doubt about that.
Read MoreHenry Falcon is afraid of the same thing the rest of the opposition is, but he believes not participating is far worse when the majority of the Venezuelan people want to go to the polls.
Read MoreWhile the Venezuelan people are sinking more and more into poverty and despair, the left is unable to offer the country a progressive alternative to overcome the crisis.
Read MoreThatcher or Reagan’s anti-union maneuvers were well covered here in our government media; I personally remember the TV coverage that the Telefonica workers strike got here in Cuba when in Spain Aznar privatized the company.
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