This is a very controversial issue, particularly in Cuba. Because of the embargo imposed by the US government, Cuba has had restricted access to information – to books, music, films, software, operating systems and other products. The government’s response has been that of the so-called “cracking” of all types of software.
Read MoreFernando Ravsberg’s last article Cuban Civil Society and Debate (I) was the subject of much debate both on his personal website and in Havana Times. Today Fernando brings us a part 2, detailing some of the arguments made.
Read MoreThe US and Cuba have finally resumed diplomatic relations. The rapprochement has also refocused attention on the fifty-year-old American policy that allows Cubans to immigrate to the United States in unlimited numbers, a “privilege” not conferred upon citizens of any other country.
Read MoreFor years, I’ve voted so as not to draw unwanted attention, so that my mom won’t have reason to worry, so as not to run into any problems looking for a job that involves a background check at my Committee for the Defense of the Revolution.
Read MoreThe US president is a man of political vision and sensitivity and, much like Carter and Clinton back in their day, realized that the United States’ isolation in the international arena, particularly in connection with Latin America, could no longer be sustained by Washington.
Read MoreThe first phase of Cuba’s “parliamentary elections” – the electoral mechanism created by the Cuban government more than 30 years ago – are around the corner (April 19th) and, in the midst of the media spectacle calling on us to “vote for Cuba,” I asked myself the question: “What Cuba will I be voting for?”
Read MoreEduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (Eduardo Galeano), one of Hispano-America’s most renowned intellectuals, took his last breath on Monday April 13, His narrative was one of my favorites to read.
Read MoreIf the quarrel between civil society representatives sent from Havana and civil society representatives shipped over from Miami took us back in time some, the civility of the encounter between presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama pointed towards the present and the future.
Read MoreThe Left has a fundamental advantage and drawback: it is the ideal mechanism to manage a series of moral and ethical values, concepts of solidarity, fraternity, equality and social justice which can be applied and expressed by individuals and the masses alike. These give those who claim to possess such sensibilities an aura of moral superiority, when contrasted with those who declare an inclination towards the pursuit of financial benefits and material wealth, to the detriment of the spiritual and the longing for social justice.
Read MoreObama went to Panama to save the Pan-American system, threatened by the previous exclusion of Cuba. The island’s inclusion was a unanimous demand by Latin American and Caribbean countries, in solidarity with one of their own and a country, what’s more, that symbolically represents independence from the United States.
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