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Fear in Cuba of What’s Different

So 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?

No Requiem for the Varadero International Hotel?

I 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.

Can We Avoid a Black Tide in the Lake of Nicaragua?

If 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?”

Racism in Cuba: a Controversial Issue

I 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.

Frozen Salaries for Cuba’s Teachers

Cuban authorities and media have officially announced that pay hikes in the educational sector, which were expected in the second semester of 2016, will not be put into effect. The country doesn’t have the necessary economic conditions right now, they’ve said.

The Centralized State Is the Root of Our Misfortunes

Foreign investment in unproductive state companies, like a magic wand, is brandished as the solution to our wrongs, when the truth of the matter is that foreign investment, even if in the billions, without denying the need for it, will never resolve our problems.