President Raul Castro addressed the Cuban parliament on Sunday, demanding more order and discipline from society in complying with the economic guidelines set forth by the Communist Party. He also called for stepped up actions against “social indiscipline” and administrative corruption.
Read MoreAs a child, I was unruly, argumentative and domineering…but also something of an overly sensitive crybaby. My dad would always say to me my tears didn’t go well with my character, that I was too strong a girl to cry over so many trivial things.
Read MoreAn article titled “Secret Epidemics: Cuba’s Public Health Ethics” (“El silencio epidemiológico y la ética de la Salud Pública cubana”) appears in the most recent issue of Cuba’s quarterly Public Health Journal (Revista Cubana de Salud Publica). Written by National School of Medicine physician Luis Suarez Rosas, the work criticizes the Cuban government’s information policies in the area of public health.
Read MoreRecently, Cuban-born political analyst Carlos Alberto Montaner published an article titled Education and Cynicism. The article aims to discredit Chile’s student movement and its calls for the de-commercialization of education, not by analyzing the political coordinates of the phenomenon (something which would have proven immensely interesting), but from a moralistic and dogmatically neo-liberal perspective.
Read MoreIt’s an eclectic mix that proposes the continuation of economic domination by the State, flirts with national and foreign capital and merely flashes a smile at cooperatives without offering any real openings for developing independent worker-controlled production.
Read MoreTour buses are a common sight in Cuba. Our first week in Cuba we travelled on a comfortable tour bus, made in China. The streets of Trinidad, where we spent one night, were crawling with tour buses.
Read MoreI don’t know whether I actually believe in God or any supernatural forces. All I know is that, every night before I go to sleep, I pray to something you could call a divine power. The first thing I ask for is good health and long life for the people I love, especially my two daughters.
Read MoreFifty years of unsuccessful attempts at re-structuring its public transportation into a system that works should suffice to make Cuba consider changing the very foundations of the system.
Read MoreOn January 1, 1959, the situation changed radically, for the revolution set a government by the people and for the people. The workers became the owners of the means of production, and the aspirations of the revolutionary government coincided with that of the workers entirely.
Read MoreFor many years, the Manazana de Gomez building, which takes up an entire block, housed a number of schools, theatres, editorial offices and other cultural establishments, such as the Latin American Culture Institute, chaired by renowned intellectual Fernando Ortiz.
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