Recently, 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.
Read MoreIt happened while on my way to work this morning. Looking out the window of my bus as it drove down Havana’s waterfront avenue, I caught sight of a submarine cruising into Havana Bay. Sadly, I didn’t have my camera with me, missing a fantastic photo opportunity.
Read MoreI must confess that, I felt a slight tickle of “satisfaction.” For a moment, Uncle Sam had been given a taste of his own medicine. For years, Venezuela has been asking the USA to extradite terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, a former Venezuelan Police agent and US.Army officer with some CIA involvement.
Read MoreI’ve lost count of the number of my friends who have left Cuba and are now scattered across the world. The first of my friends to leave was Melina, a girl in my high school class back in the eleventh grade. She had told us she wouldn’t be in the school for long the moment she joined our class.
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