This past Saturday, I went to the piano-bar located in Cuba’s National Theater, a place a lot of people in Havana known as the Delirio Habanero. I hadn’t visited the place in five years. To my pleasant surprise, the place made a positive impression on me when I arrived.
Read MorePractically everyone has heard about the new regulation at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport which forbids those who accompany travelers to the airport from entering the premises. The fact of the matter is that the airport director himself arrogantly gave statements to the newspapers to “explain” the unpopular measure.
Read MoreGioconda Belli: “The dictatorship Daniel Ortega is reestablishing in Nicaragua is not like Somoza’s. What he is repeating is the formula that failed in the eighties, this time with a liberal economy and illusory freedom of the press enjoyed by only a few media.”
Read MoreThe US government had to skip over the Cuban-American community if it wanted its resources to actually reach the dissidents. That is how the idea of hiring other US citizens and Latin Americans to smuggle communications equipment and financial resources into Cuba probably arose.
Read MoreThe first and main problem, the original sin of the “reform process” and its “guidelines” approved at the 6th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), is its failure to define the type of society it seeks to create and the aims and means of production of this society.
Read MoreLike all other countries in the Western hemisphere, Cuba faces challenges that are shared by many of its neighbors and problems that are unique to it. Cuba’s supposed “exceptionality” has been gradually vanishing as part of a monumental transformation of its society, through which the new (and old) generations have rapidly adjusted to global consumption logics (for better and for worse), where the transnational constitutes a transversal axis that mediates everything and in which citizen expectations have been shaken qualitatively.
Read MoreMy friend Erasmo Calzadilla is worried by what he perceives to be the frightening spread of oncological conditions in Cuba. I would like to add a number of comments that could help clarify the ideas he addressed.
Read MoreCuban society is going through a period of change and faces two major challenges. First, to enable and coordinate all the cultural, social and political diversity that exists in the nation. Secondly, to ensure that it does so with fidelity to the fullest possible welfare of all social strata down to grass roots level in Cuba.
Read MoreTo play the album Dial, by Cuban band Buena Fe, I chose my second cell phone, because that particular model could also be used as a radio. Standing before the store window, the clerk had explained to me the technical characteristics of the three models that would work in Cuba.
Read MoreThe Havana airport administrator says there are many other airport terminals in the world where entry is forbidden to persons accompanying a passenger, but did not name any of them. While that appears to be an exaggeration, there is at least one in Asmara, Eritrea.
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