Two teenagers were talking at a bus stop. With the habitual idioms that characterize the parlance of a good many Cubans these days, one of them was showing off his IPhone 5, saying to the other: “Bro, this thing’s off the chart. Look at the cell my old man got me, it’s smokin’.
Read MoreTrumpeted as a gathering of major importance, the 8th Congress of the Cuban Writers and Artists Association (UNEAC) to be held in April this year points towards the complete failure of the organization.
Read MoreWhen I was fourteen, I got the crazy idea I wanted to learn to play the guitar. My parents didn’t have the money to buy me the instrument, so I decided to talk with Barbara, a friend of mine who lived in the building across the street and owned a Pablo Quintana guitar.
Read MoreRaul Castro says a raise in salaries without an increase in productivity would lead to inflation. This may be true, but it is also true that Cuba’s economic inefficiency is not chiefly the fault of workers but of those who manage companies and head ministries.
Read MoreThere are things I really don’t understand about the US government. They claim the “Castro regime” has indoctrinated the Cuban people, that the most fundamental human rights are constantly being trampled and so on and so forth.
Read MoreRaul Castro should be congratulated for being so clear and sincere. If anyone had any doubts about the possibility of important changes under his leadership, everything is now clear as day. Many of us were already aware of the situation some time before, but some continued to wait for true reforms.
Read MoreThe co-existence of different political parties bound to express the people’s will through constitutional means is the most effective way towards progress in any nation – a practice which is entirely foreign to us Cubans.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro yesterday closed a Congress of the Federation of Cuban Workers (CTC), the only union allowed on the island, making it clear that the mission of workers in Cuba is to produce more with greater discipline and efficiency, with the certainty that one day there will be higher wages.
Read MorePopular Panamanian recording artist and politician Ruben Blades has had an exchange of words with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on the situation facing this South American country. Here is the latest, Blades’ response to Maduro, and below, Maduro’s remarks to Blades in a video.
Read MoreSome exiles begin to dream their worst nightmare that the death of the top leadership does not lead to an end to the Cuban revolution. Journalist and activist Pedro Corzo, in exile in Miami, now predicts bitterly that “the Castro rule will survive the Castros.”
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