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Petro Cryptocurrency: Solution or Scam for Venezuela?

TeleSur, the Venezuela based satellite TV channel we see here in Cuba, has unleashed a media avalanche/advertising campaign for cryptocurrencies recently, especially the Petro…

Cuba’s Misleading Election Results

It takes a lot of intellectual energy to understand Cuban reality. There are a large number of facts that are extremely contradictory. Statistics on voting and the reasons people go to the polls are one of those issues.

A “Doi Moi” or Renovation for Cuba or Else

Cuba can learn from Viet Nam to overcome petty attitudes and vindictiveness such as prohibiting 100,000 Cuban expatriates from visiting their homeland, applying a surcharge on Cuban Americans Visas, Passports and Travel instead of devising events as Viet Nam, that encourage their return and investment.

Solving Cuba’s Two-Currency Dilemma Is Not So Difficult

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.

What Actually is Cuban Civil Society?

It’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.

When in Cuba Will Wages be Seriously Discussed?

It 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.

The Last Cry for Attention

Saturday 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!”

What Fate Awaits Our Grandparents?

In 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.

Putin Polishes the Picture of Russia We’re Getting in Cuba

The 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.

Differences between Women in Chile and Cuba

In personality, Chilean women call the shots, there’s no doubt about that.