It’s an oft-repeated desire among many US citizens: “I want to visit Havana before the we ruin it, with McDonald’s and Starbucks on every corner.” Well, fellow US citizens, after visiting Havana three times in a year since “the opening,” I have good news and bad news.
Read MoreThe main opposition group has called for abstention, under the slogan “I won’t throw away my vote,” or “No one to vote for.” If their aim is to repudiate the electoral panorama and call for political resistance, this isn’t the most effective method.
Read MoreI can still remember our people rejoicing in the street and in Cuban TV interviews, after Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced a new era in US-Cuba relations. Nobody talked about anything else and our hopes were running high.
Read MoreMany of Cuba’s retirees are struggling, especially those who have to live off pensions equaling 8–12 USD a month and have no money coming from family abroad.
Read MoreThose who punish journalists for publishing the truth promote lies, shams and double standards. They’ve taken away the Cuban people’s right to access true information, which makes it easy to manipulate them.
Read MoreThe seed of violence and organized crime has already been planted in Cuba. Not only here in the country’s interior where robberies and trafficking take place; it’s much worse in the capital and in the main cities.
Read MoreWe Cubans are natives and creoles, a mix of colonization and slavery. We have lived through wars, military interventions, blockades, the Special Period and socio-economic changes so as to create real socialism.
Read MoreHaroldo Dilla: “I ask myself, is it reasonable that honest and decent people get involved in publicity shows in support of the Cuban government? Of course, I don’t think it is, and here are my reasons…”
Read MoreThey refuse to adopt a critical standpoint because of their shared anti-imperialist struggle, for “society” trying to build a better world and out of fear for losing the refuge this protector State gives those who take part in this fight.
Read MoreToday Fidel Castro turns 90, with a legacy cherished by his followers and abhorred by his detractors, both at home and around the world. Carlos brings us his illustrated Happy Birthday Fidel.
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