Eight million eggs are stolen, tens of thousands of cows disappear, over a million dollars destined to garbage collection are embezzled, food for psychiatric patients is re-sold, a seafood container goes missing and a minister makes a buck off people’s food.
Read MoreI have a question for you Fidelistas, followers of Raul Castro, cardboard revolutionaries, fragile de-evolutionists, communists of the Cuban-Soviet type (never true communists) and opportunists who espouse the ideology that allows you to sit in the throne of power without doing any actual work.
Read MoreA wave of pro-Russian culture seems to be bathing Cuba’s current official discourse. Journalists and ideologues from our main newspaper, Granma, write words of praise for the Euro-Asian giant, while politicians work to tighten relations with the country. Photo: TASS
Read MoreI am convinced that the one redeeming virtue of Cubans is our excellent sense of humor. Without it, we would quite frankly be unbearable, for our other face, our dark side, is marked by boundless narcissism.
Read MoreWe really don’t know here what interests our people, at least not with any certainty. Our Cuban “public agenda”, as the sociologists call it, is secret, confidential, and obscure. Who today would dare to assert what the majority opinion is, for example, on the progressive rapprochement between Cuba and USA?
Read MoreAlmost every time President Raul Castro travels abroad, his older brother, Fidel, comes out of hiding to let us know we haven’t been left home alone. On Saturday, Fidel expressed his “profound admiration towards the heroic people of the Soviet Union, who rendered a colossal service for humanity.”
Read MoreAlejandro Armengol: “We must put an end to the extremism that still prevails on the island and among the Cuban émigré community, where the line dividing Castroism and anti-Castroism is either missing or very faint.”
Read MoreIt seems Havana’s garbage collection services have abandoned the tenants of multi-family apartment buildings in the neighborhood of Aldabo, Boyeros, to their own resources. Practically no garbage was collected in April and none has been picked up this month of May.
Read MoreSome friends are of the opinion I should put an end to the debate about the behavior of Cuban civil society at the Summit of the Americas held in Panama, but, as I see it, I have no right to finalize an exchange of opinions that was begun by several people and which others have joined along the way.
Read MoreCuba will soon be celebrating yet another May Day (or International Workers’ Day), 54 years after declaring the “socialist” nature of the revolution. Numerous delegations from labor movements in other countries will be on hand. So what does it all mean?
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