If I were to say the most dynamic part of Cuban society lives, not on the island, but across the world (particularly South Florida), I wouldn’t be saying anything new. This is true economically and demographically but it is also true culturally and intellectually.
Read MoreI get on a bus and see people run and cling to the open door, trying to keep their heels from being mangled. I see a mother hoist her kid onto her shoulder and grab hold of another passenger’s waist, struggling to hold on to his neighbor with calloused hands.
Read MoreA TV roundtable on bureaucracy is over and we know the origin of the word, its meaning, that it does not exist only in Cuba, and even what Mexican actor Cantinflas thought of it. And with that what do we do now?
Read MoreWhen in the 1950s, I became involved in the struggle against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, one of our teachers remarked that we had no real reason to criticize the state of our country because so many other nations in the region — such as Bolivia and Haiti — were much worse off than us.
Read MoreThe fourth round of negotiations between Cuba and the European Union has yielded a number of concrete results. According to the details offered in a communiqué by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vice Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno returned home with more items on the agenda for a political and cooperation agreement with UE diplomats in Brussels.
Read MoreReading a blog by fellow journalist Lilibeth Alfonso, I found out that authorities in Cuba’s Guantanamo province had decided to prohibit the “package,” that compendium of films, TV series, reality shows & soap operas distributed weekly nationwide.
Read MorePedro Campos on Cuban State Security repression: “Since they cannot accuse me of treason, of working for the “enemy”, they are now looking for another way to try and neutralize me, to silence my political and economic analyses of Cuban reality”.
Read MoreImagine you have a health problem. You look for a doctor at a medical institution. They prescribe a treatment and medicine. You buy the bottles indicated, open them and note that they only contain water.
Read MoreScience and its adherents allow themselves the leeway that they deny to other forms of knowledge: the possibility of existing and of making mistakes. Institutionalized medical science is perhaps the most hypocritical of all the branches of science, because their hypocrisy not infrequently ends up buried in the grave.
Read MoreIt’s been almost two years since Cuba’s Episcopal Conference sought to make public its vision about Cuba and clarify how the Church conceives and envisages the options it recommends or demands for the country in the midst of its reform process.
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