Cuban President Raul Castro warned today about threats of “foreign interference” in Latin America and the Caribbean by the “centers of power that are not resigned to losing control of the region.” He spoke at the opening of the Summit of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (CELAC) in Havana.
Read MoreThe price of products in Cuba – particularly farm products essential to the population – show no signs of decreasing. The bureaucrats blame producers, cooperatives and intermediaries. In their assessments, however, they neglect the true causes of this situation.
Read MoreFollowing more than a half-century of restrictions, the Cuban market for the sale of new and used cars was opened on January 3rd, under state control. The measure forms part of the social and economic modernization that the government has set in motion, in hopes of obtaining greater efficiency and realism in the country’s marketing and production processes.
Read MoreThough many years of neglect have effaced some its former splendor, one can still tell the building was once a luxurious colonial mansion. Today, it is one of the many shabby tenement buildings on Aguiar street, in the heart of Havana’s old town, a working-class apartment block where more than twenty families have settled wherever they have found the space.
Read MoreI have no recollections of places devoid of fences or walls that divide spaces into two. Whenever I take a stroll around the city or go on vacation with my family – even when I step onto the balcony and gaze at my surroundings – my eyes invariably settle on walls and boundaries.
Read MoreThe Cuban government continues to regard its émigrés as debris that has broken off from the nation’s edifice and seeks to squeeze out as much surplus value from them as it can through remittances and consular services.
Read MoreJust when we thought the Cold War was over and the world would start moving towards global denuclearization, along comes this bit of news to give us yet another cause for concern, feeding our worries about the United States’ already dangerous practice of trying to impose like-minded and submissive governments around the globe through the use of force.
Read MoreThe Cuban Communist Party (PCC) was not the architect of the Cuban revolution. The leaders of this triumphant revolution, rather, set down the foundational precepts of this one party, which rules the country today.
Read MoreI love Havana, the city I live in, and there are moments when I get pleasure from talking and writing about her. There are others, though, in which that enthusiasm deserts me, and I refuse to even look out the window of my apartment.
Read MoreI could fill several pages with names of institutions of all types being managed or run by officers or former officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) put there by the respective higher ups. There is no doubt: Whatever happens in Cuba today, in any sphere, is decided by the military.
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