Obama 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.
Read MoreAfter the recently concluded Summit of the Americas, US president Obama held a press conference where he spoke on the new relations with Cuba, the controversy over the Iranian nuclear program and other issues.
Read MoreThe municipal elections of Cuba’s People’s Power Assemblies will be held this coming April 19th. Pedro Campos asks whether they are worth holding at all.
Read MoreCurrently, the incomes generated by medical services offered abroad constitute the most important source of hard currency revenue for Cuba’s State budget – and this sector is facing a serious threat, in the form of a mass exodus of the medical professionals responsible for offering such services.
Read MoreCuba tends to constitute a negative reference in statistical reports about the spread of new information and telecommunication technologies. In terms of the degree of access to telephone lines and digital networks that people enjoy, we continue to fare very poorly.
Read MoreCuba’s mobile phone email system is an important step for the country’s underdeveloped telecommunications industry, but it must modernize. In the meantime, Internet in Cuba continues to wait for better times.
Read MoreRelations between Cuba and the USA are entering a new more complex stage. It began with current peace negotiations, which still haven’t managed to secure a complete ceasefire. Havana continues to publicly condemn the “empire” and Washington is still imposing sanctions on those who have business dealings with the island.
Read MoreThose of us with some gray in our hair, or those who left Cuba after the severe economic crisis struck the island in the 1990s, will recall that, at the time, basketball was the second most popular sport in the country, second only to baseball. In practice, the material conditions facing players back then weren’t a whole lot better than they are today, but a successful generation of athletes would fill the court with fans, eager to enjoy the magical way in which Roberto Carlos Herrera handled the ball, or how Lazaro Borrell or Richard Matienzo dunked it.
Read MoreOver the last couple weeks, there’ve been several different takes on the topic of the high prices in the markets here versus the scant buying power of most customers. In my view, we’ve yet to recognize the final determining factor in this story.
Read MoreThe rapprochement between the US and Havana is starting to have repercussions around the world, even though the economic embargo is still in effect and only the first steps towards the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries have been taken.
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