Cuba’s media has made the general population believe that the US president has the immense privilege, authority and decision-making power that the Cuban president has, creating a false impression that is self-destructive.
Read MoreA friend of mine, sad at the definitive impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, ended up regretting that “what a shame, after so much hard work, they took away even her honor of inaugurating the Olympics, she didn’t deserve that.”
Read MoreThe Cuban government has just put into effect two classic capitalist economic measures: Imposing taxes on public sector worker salaries and freezing teacher salaries. However, it hasn’t just taken these measures; it has also made cuts to the social security, health and education budgets.
Read MoreIn some of my past articles, I’ve commented on the fact that out of the need to survive I’ve turned to agricultural work, more specifically, to tobacco farming. I decided to do this when my first wife was pregnant, about to give birth to Ana Claudia, seven years ago.
Read MoreThe National Office of Statistics and Information hasn’t published a series of necessary indicators for the government’s tax policy. Studies about poverty in Cuba are very scarce or limited to the capital and are over ten years old.
Read MoreSending thousands of teenagers to teach the illiterate how to read and write was the first stone laid in the foundations of the largest industry created by the Cuban Revolution, Education. However, for more than two decades now, the foundations of this industry have been weakening.
Read MoreSo how should a society like Cuba’s tackle issues such as racism, machismo or homophobia, knowing that these evils have been living with humans for millennia without having been resolved?
Read MoreI was completely taken by surprise when two of my friends commented that the Varadero International Hotel had been demolished, in spite of the fact that the Cuban Architects and Engineers Association had denounced this measure.
Read MoreIf the plan to construct an inter-oceanic canal across the Lake of Nicaragua (Cocibolca) should come to fruition, yet another unsettling question arises – not “whether or not a catastrophic event might someday occur as a result of hydrocarbons spilling from a damaged boat and causing a black tide in the waters of the Great Lake?”, but: “When will this catastrophe happen?”
Read MoreI don’t know what goes on inside our leaders’ minds, but at least from what they reveal, and in line with what has been written down in law, they have demonstrated that they are against racism.
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