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The Castros and Jose Marti

The Castro government has tried to base its violence, strategies and intentions on Marti’s ideas, trying to win over for themselves the attraction the thinking of the Cuban people’s Apostle always had.

The Cuban People’s Fidel

I’m not saying that Fidel ended Cuban democracy, what he did do away with though was this civil-democratic “spirit”.

The Master Always Comes to Your Aid

A relative told me when I came out of prison: “It was Marti who ruined you, for reading all those books. Reading these things in this country is trouble, because “these people” have everything locked down and they crush whoever raises their head.”

The Latest Scream

Recently the cost of a lemon reached unheard of prices in Havana.

Private imports in Cuba: a problem or the solution?

According to an article by Fernando Ravsberg’s recently published on this website, “The Millions that Fly Out of Cuba“, a multimillion dollar business which individual people in the private sector engage in could be moving approximately 500 million USD per year. Here are my comments on this.

Challenges and Realities of Cuba’s Health Care System

the reality is that if wages of medical personnel don’t increase, the wages of cleaning staff can’t get any better either. Patients will continue to receive “stem-cell” therapy for free while they continue to slip and fall in puddles of water that nobody is cleaning up.

This “Thing” We Call Internet in Cuba

I will never forget my friend trying to persuade me to buy a better phone so I could have a Nauta email account. “Don’t be stupid, girl, this is an investment, it’s just email for the minute, but who knows what’s coming,” he said. So I made my little @nauta.cu account.

Cuba: A Last Warning

Using well-known tools that all Cuban Social Sciences university students use, you can identify the great contradictions that the government, its leaders and political/economic/social system (sold off as “Socialism”) are experiencing.

In Cuba, Freedom Is Important but Dangerous

From a very young age, I felt like we were missing a bit of freedom in my country, even though I was a Fidelista like everyone around me.

Mayte under the Flamboyant Tree

Mayte hung herself from a flamboyant tree, some years after she left her position as the leader of the Young Communist League at secondary school, where she fulfilled the role of a Torquemada of Stalinism, pointing out, informing on and destroying the lives of her classmates, marked by the urgency of rising up the ranks…