As a result of the episode of tourist companies in Cuba hiring construction workers from India, I got really scared. Ah, but then I saw the advantageous side of things, and I’m going to explain these opportunities to you.
Read MoreThe first successful slave uprising happened in Haiti when French occupying forces were defeated and an independent republic was born on January 1, 1804. Haiti has never received the deserved international recognition and homage this monumental accomplishment deserves.
Read MoreUnfortunately, at least from what we could see on our TV screens, no other speaker, besides Samantha Power, representing the United States, showed solidarity with our people and our rights that have been taken away from us.
Read MoreToday, October 28th, Cuba hopes to be chosen once again for the UN Human Rights Council. However, the Cuban government still hasn’t ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social, Cultural, Civil and Political Rights that it signed back in 2008.
Read More“What do you love when you love?” is a question that has been going around my head for some weeks now and it still seems like an inescapable enigma to me. Love is truly sacred and I’m sure of its incalculable effect on society, just like society’s inevitable effect on love.
Read MoreI must confess that I read Periodismo de Barrio less than I should, even though my daughter tells me off more and more for not doing so. However, from what I have read, I can claim that it is one of the most interesting intellectual and media projects that have ever been carried out in Cuba.
Read MoreThe magazine “Confidencial” was born in July,1996, on the eve of a presidential election during those years of democratic transition that Sofía Montenegro termed: “Nicaragua’s springtime of free expression.” She was alluding to the unusual climate of State tolerance towards critical journalism that was established during the government of my mother, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
Read MoreThe recent arrests of a group of young reporters from the Periodismo de Barrio project – who were traveling to Baracoa, which had been affected by Hurricane Matthew – combined with the confiscation of their work equipment, leans towards the reasons of those who are pessimistic when it comes to considering the White House’s possible influence on national events in Cuba.
Read MoreThe eyes on the life size replica of Che Guevera in the Museum of the Revolution in Old Havana, Cuba seem to follow you around the room – not that I was prone to move around much.
Read MoreOnly three figures -and not fictional ones- are enough to draw a picture of modern day Cuban reality: a drunk man, an old lady and an arrogant young woman. It sounds like this has been taken out of a story, but it’s real.
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