Raul 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.”
Read MoreWhile Holguin, one of Cuba’s eastern cities, continues to be known as “the city of parks”, Havana will soon be known as “the city of parking lots”, one of my neighbors jokingly told me. Let’s have a look at this logic.
Read MoreIn a discussion on a loyal opposition, one must begin by pointing out the main obstacle to its existence in Cuba is the persistence, in power, of a narcissistic political elite that is deaf to all appeals and considers itself the very embodiment of the nation’s history and future.
Read MoreFriends of the United States, political leaders who are not revolutionary in the least and many people who stand at a considerable distance from communism stand out among the vast majority of individuals, presidents and governments that oppose Washington’s obstinate policy towards Cuba. Many are of the conviction that, to date, the blockade/embargo has actually been an ally of Fidel Castro.
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