Watching again the Cuban film classic “The Death of a Bureaucrat”, I remembered the story of Marta Elena Otero, a neighbor who has become the protagonist of a similar story. This 46-year-old teacher tells me that she’s been trying to update her home’s property documents for the past 4 years.
Read MoreA few weeks ago we published a post referring to the bad work of the Ministry of Agriculture and the rest of the institutions that work in this sector, unable to guarantee more than 20% of the food of the Cubans. Here goes another related one.
Read MoreUS President Donald Trump spoke at the United Nations last week insulting the Cuban government and Granma newspaper – the Cuban Communist Party’s official newspaper – published this speech in full so that every Cuban could read it.
Read MoreThe White House has ruled out Cuba being responsible for the alleged “sonic attacks” which have supposedly affected 20-some diplomats, based on the assumption that any of this had actually happened.
Read MoreThe rules of chess don’t work the same when it comes to the Cuban government. They seem to be in another dimension. Hurricane Irma came to be its project-country’s “checkmate”, and even so, they still aren’t throwing in the towel.
Read MoreThinking about and reading comments made after Hurricane Irma swept through Cuba, I find myself asking whether Cuban Customs laws adapt to the country and its people’s economic needs or whether they exist instead to make them even more difficult, with restrictions which contradict the nation’s best interests.
Read MoreIn the wake of the incredible destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma, Cuba has sent 750 doctors and medical professionals to other Caribbean islands to assist with rescue efforts. Cuba itself has been devastated by Irma, with 10 deaths already reported and dramatic images of a flooded Havana; this, despite the fact that the capital was not the hardest hit area of the island.
Read MoreCuba has the best Civil Defense system in the region and that makes it a model to follow. However the combination of very low wages, the poor state of housing in the country, and the lack of proper building materials and codes, has meant a constant repeat of recovery efforts.
Read MoreThe US government has said that it is studying the possibility of closing its diplomatic headquarters in Havana as a result of the mysterious “Death ray” device, a sonic weapon which would only exist in Cuba and only leaves North American diplomats deaf.
Read MoreEvery day we read about the marvels that are coming to Managua to alleviate the blockages and traffic jams: overpasses, widening of the Juan Pablo II highway, bicycle lanes, etc. It all sounds lovely, but the Mayor’s office has to turn its eyes towards how to maintain the functionality of these modernized, widened roadways.
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