Opinion

Much More than a Soccer Rivalry

We’ve recently become alarmed by the mass shootings in public spaces or instances of police brutality in the US. However, watching the European Championship and Copa America, we should be more worried about, much more worried about, Europe.

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Cuba Looking for its Future

Cuba finds itself at a critical juncture in its history, where important decisions, like those made in 1902 or in 1959, need to be made. The only difference this time being that we’re no longer living under the suffocating rule of military occupation or in the middle of a full-blown revolution.

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Why I Became a Different Kind of Socialist

According to the Cuban government there are only two groups: those who support and praise the system unconditionally; and those who criticize it and fight against it, however they can. The latter includes a different kind of socialist, like the one I am.

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I’m Liking Havana less and less

This Havana that I wanted for years to call my home, this Havana where I studied at its University and where I’ve already worked for a fair bit… this Havana that I like less and less every day.

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What’s Happened to Chavismo?

Cartoonist Manuel Guillen gives us his vision of the current state of the populist policies funded by the oil revenues of the state PDVSA company that marked what is called chavismo (from Hugo Chavez) in Venezuela, now facing a severe economic and political crisis.

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Pro-Life or against Human Rights?

Although Cuba hasn’t been a member since 1962, and our current president Raul Castro has declared that we’ll never return, representatives of civil society like myself attended the activities running up to the 46th OAS General Assembly.

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