On December 10th, mayoral elections will be held in Venezuela’s 335 municipalities. It’s Nicolas Maduro’s priority right now in the middle of a never-ending crisis that has been beating our vast and beautiful country relentlessly. According to the president these elections promise to be the solution to all of the serious problems that we are suffering as a nation.
Read MoreIf we draw comparisons between the political climate in the late 19th century, Cuba at the end of Batista’s dictatorship, and our current situation, we will find lots of similarities. During all three of these times, the island suffered a tyrannical power which restricted its political and economic freedoms…
Read MoreThe era of false news, the manipulation of the truth and the imposition of so-called “alternative facts” as State policy, wasn’t invented by Donald Trump in the United States. In Nicaragua, it was inaugurated a decade ago, when President Daniel Ortega launched his first offensive against the independent press…
Read MoreIt was and is many socialists’ serious mistake to believe that a truly fair society could be the result of an undemocratic political system. Socialism without democracy is a hoax because you can’t emancipate or bring justice to a people whose rights aren’t all respected.
Read MoreToday, public policies regarding labor rights, state sector wages, freedom of cultural creation, infrastructure and education curricula and teacher salaries are all wrong and urgently need to be changed for the good of the country.
Read MoreThe dilemma between Cuba and the US has all the signs of prolonging itself in time. Miguel Diaz Canel, the candidate of the Communist Party for the Presidency, has just said that the future of relations depends on the attitude assumed by Washington.
Read MoreAccording to my watch, it was 10:30 AM. Five minutes later, I saw Luis Manuel get out of an almendron (1950’s Chevrolet collective taxi), he looked up and eagerly looked for me. I signaled to him with my right hand. He crossed the street hurriedly, in a diagonal.
Read MoreThe Russians have returned to Cuba again but this time with a different face just like that character Melquiades in Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” who appears in Macondo, after being absent for many years, with a beautiful smile that is the result of a denture.
Read MoreThe quotation “Ideas cannot be killed” is very well-known in Cuba whereby a Batista army officer stopped his angry colleagues who wanted to kill Fidel when he was captured after the failed attempt to take the Moncada barracks. It was the most convincing argument used by that enlightened sergeant, Sarria.
Read MoreAfter the vertigo of seeing empty seats during the performance, which only two viewers could come to, the collective of Teatro Kairos, especially we the author and the director of the play, want to share some of our impressions of this event.
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