Pedro Campos: “No one who attended the gathering could have left with any doubts on this matter: racial discrimination continues to exist in Cuba. The country has not been able to overcome the problem”. The photo is of Victor Fowler, expert on the subject.
Read More¿Do you think your president is a dictator? Consult this short manual. Dictators have evinced a series of common characteristics – to a greater or lesser degree – since the times of Pericles, 2500 years ago.
Read MoreIn addition to being illegal and immoral, or precisely because of this, the restrictions on doctors’ families exposes Cuba’s medical brigades to ferocious criticisms from their enemies. These shady, absurd and insensitive measures are the ammunition they need.
Read MoreMuch bewilderment has been caused by the US government’s decision to declare Venezuela “an extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States” while, at the same time, it makes prodigious efforts to reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Read MoreIf you go to Havana, you may find that things are not what they seem. You may meet a taxi driver or barman who’s an engineer, or with a bachelor’s degree, or a manager who didn’t even go to university. You may see a black man who’s a freemason or a Catholic, or a white person practicing an African religion such as Yoruba or Palo Monte.
Read MoreFidel Castro, the top advisor to the government of his brother Raul Castro, published today as the lead story in all official Cuban media, an open letter to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. In his message, Fidel praises the loyalty and discipline of the Venezuelan Armed Forces in these moments of tension with the United States.
Read MoreToday, I had something of a domestic dispute with an on-line acquaintance who asked me what I thought about my uncle Ernesto “Che” Guevara having been a “butcher.”
Read MoreAt the risk of being a nuisance, I’d like to repeat that the problem of high prices and low salaries in Cuba isn’t so hard to understand; rather, it can be clarified with a dab of basic political economy from the old boys: Adam Smith, Richard Wolff and Karl Marx, plus a little raw objectivity.
Read MoreAfter the triumph of the revolution, when Hilda Oates was a woman over thirty, she was able to enroll in an acting course. With much work and sacrifice, she would become one of the greats of the Cuban stage.
Read MoreThose who would protest that only regime change and full recognition of human rights in Cuba should precede any deal have surely had their arguments demolished. This month marks the 112th anniversary of the signing of the lease for the Guantánamo base between the Cuban and US governments. For at least half this period the base hasn’t been welcome in Cuba, and it’s high time the US worked out a timetable to hand the land back to the Cubans.
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