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From Cuba, Personal Development Guru Speaks on Freedom

A few weeks ago now, the online Cuban community was shocked by a video made by Diego Dreyfus, a Mexican actor turned “personal development” guru who shared his opinion about freedom.

Behind Cuba’s Centralized Economy

If at any time, leaders of the Communist Party/Government honestly believed that a centralized and planned economy was going to be more efficient than the market economy, they couldn’t honorably uphold this position after the disastrous Special Period…

Is the Internet Cuba’s Weakest Flank?

The US is creating a Task Force in order to “help” Cubans access the Internet. Lacking all of Obama’s political imagination, Trump is remaking the movie that several US presidents have already produced before him.

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.