Policies aimed at making the State responsible for a better distribution of wealth are not characteristic of a new form of socialism, but belong to the socialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Read MoreThe approval of same-sex marriage in the US shows that the courts to the north are much more progressive than the Cuban Parliament, which for a decade has been sitting on the new Family Code because it would recognize the right to same-sex union (not even marriage).
Read MoreUS farmers and businesspeople are carving out a space for themselves in Cuba’s new economy, preparing for a future that, though still unclear, will apparently accommodate bilateral trade, private investments and planes, cruisers, ferries and yachts carrying tourists to and from the island. The only ones who still have no representatives in Cuba are the more than 1.2 million Cuban Americans residing in Miami and its surroundings.
Read MoreNot that the financial resources available worldwide are necessarily a negative force, but the indiscriminate embrace of international capitalism has been one of the most powerful forces pushing towards the restoration of “normal” capitalism in Cuba in recent years.
Read MoreThe United States’ Foreign Claim Settlement Commission (FCSC) is demanding that Cuba pay US $8 billion for the properties nationalized on the island in the 1960s and the interest accumulated since ($1.8 million for the properties and the rest for interest).
Read MoreIf 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.
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