Some 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.
Read MoreActually the Cuban Twitter called “Zunzuneo”, created by USAID, is nothing new; this is the digital version of TV Marti and it’s having similar results: millions of US taxpayer dollars spent to exert negligible influence within Cuba, reaching only 40,000 people.
Read MoreJuan Carlos Cremata es un realizador que no elude la realidad social, no se acorrala en su proyecto personal ni se enajena imaginando una Cuba idílica. Por el contario, intenta acercarse a eso que llamamos identidad, pero que muy pocos podemos definir en su sentido más profundo; y lo intenta a partir de historias cotidianas que adereza con oficio y bastante imaginación.
Read MoreIn one way or another, all schools of political thought in Cuba today, within or outside government circles, concur that we must work to bring about changes to this model. The differences have to do with the scope and direction of these changes.
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