If the shoes were too big for Raul, you can just imagine how they’ll fit on Diaz-Canel or anyone else. Only a change in Cuba’s economic and political systems, which they haven’t wanted to do because they are so arrogant, could have ensured some continuity of Castrismo without Fidel.
Read MoreEverything seems to return to “normal” after the repression suffered by several artists on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 20th in the Cuban capital. They were going to enjoy a play in the independent house-gallery El Circulo and suddenly they were victims of a performance by a government that prevents free expression at all costs.
Read MoreArt continues to be censored in Cuba. Or maybe the government just wants to be an artist and develops violent performances against freedom of expression.
Read MoreOn Thursday 14th, around midday, my father passed by one of Mayari’s pharmacies. He did it out of habit to see if, by chance, he would find any of the medicines we needed at home. He was surprised to see a big crowd, however, there wasn’t anything that he was looking for. “Intimates have come in,” the woman told him.
Read MoreThen, there is what they call the “Blockade” which serves as an excuse to why there isn’t any “made in China” aspirin or why a pound of pork costs 10% of a worker’s average monthly income. Any excuse sticks well in the new Cuban’s mind, conditioned to take whatever occurs to the comrades at the Communist Party Central Committee as Divine Dogma.
Read MoreCuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula: “I can’t remember when it was that I realized I was free. It wasn’t a sudden revelation, nor was it an impressive one. When I think about jail time or even death as a result of my work, without any kind of fear, I don’t think this has to do with being brave. Quite simply, my life is worthless if I can’t do what I enjoy and say what I think.”
Read MoreWhen you want to silence someone, the most common methods used are blackmail and repression. But when it comes to a good idea, shared by many in its fundamental principles, it is difficult for it not to fly by itself. The person who created it may be stopped but the idea will continue its journey. That’s what happened this weekend in Havana.
Read MoreAfter 60 years, the Cuban political project continues to be a paradigm for a group within the global Left. Let’s take a simplified look at the milestones in this ambivalent love story of those who admire Cuba, but haven’t moved here just yet, preferring to defend the Revolution from Boston or Paris.
Read MoreRaul Castro’s strategy seems to be to delegate tasks, which were concentrated in one person up until now, including to the second in command of the state-party dichotomy, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura. Castro is 86 years old, Machado Ventura is 87.
Read MoreIf Raul Castro leaves day-to-day administration, he will only be looking for a “successful” way out of his greatest failure: the attempt to move the country towards a more efficient economic structure within an authoritarian regime.
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