Since the news broke, I’ve had numerous persons call me, email me and push me to write, “to inform,” regarding this confusing situation we’re dealing with here in the US, regarding visits to loved ones in Cuba.
Read MoreThe Cuban media continue to warn us of the dangers of the Internet (both real and imagined). The latest show to join this offensive is Pasaje a lo desconocido (“Journey to the Unknown”). The general impression one gets, as always, is that the reality beyond our borders is an authentic disaster and that ours is the best of possible worlds.
Read MoreSustainable development” has been Cuba’s guiding tenet since the publication of the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines of the Party and Revolution in 2011.The concept, assumed as an axiom, does not require any kind of verification – it is an absolute truth.
Read MoreSome Havana Times commentators and regular contributors have made a habit of inciting Cubans living on the island to express their true feelings about the country’s situation with more sincerity. They don’t understand why a vast majority of people are passive.
Read MoreThere once was a time when it was possible to step aboard a Pullman car at New York City’s Penn Station at 4:00 p.m. and disembark in Habana at 6:30 p.m., two days later!
Read MoreMore than a month ago, in the first half of March, two Cuba-related events took place. This would hardly be news – Cuba-related events take place every single month somewhere in the Western world – were it not for the fact that the two of them shared the same political objective.
Read MoreAna Teresa Igarza, director general of the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM) Regulations Office, recently announced that a special hard-currency exchange rate had been established for Zone employees. Contracted employees will receive 80 percent of their salaries but…
Read MoreDespite Cuba’s interest in reducing its dependence on oil, the island does not currently import electric cars or authorize the use of natural gas as fuel. Currently only 5 % of the energy Cuba consumes is derived from renewable sources. A work group for the promotion of such sources of energy was recently assembled.
Read MoreThat summer, we’d been told that one way of spending a fabulous, paid vacation – and earning a bit of money on top of that – was to get a job as guide at the primary school summer camp in Tarara, the same place where, years before, shortly after arriving from Argentina, my brother and I had spent some time recovering from our asthma.
Read MoreOfficials from the Ministry of Finance and Prices, the Food Industry and CIMEX Corp. pulled off a fast one when they announced they would raise the price of milk because its price on the world market had gone up.
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