Whenever I hear someone complain about how bad it is Cuba, if it’s one of those people who fought, convinced of what we have today (or about the promises blown away by the wind), I’ll note that in times of greatest political upheaval, many useful details go overlooked.
Read MoreThe suggestions are founded on the recognition of democracy and human rights as universal values outside of any particular socio-economic system, and on the concrete and objective necessities of Cuban reality with the aim of advancing to a more superior society in every order.
Read MoreThe Laboratorio Casa Cuba has presented a paper titled “A Dreamed of, Possible and Future Cuba: Proposals for Our Immediate Future,” consisting of 23 proposals that summarily cover various aspects of national life. The novelty of this proposal is that at the same time it calls for open debate.
Read MoreLast week, Yoani Sanchez, after visiting Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, stopped in New York and Washington DC, where she said: “My position is that the blockade should end because it’s an interventionist stance, in which one country wants to change the internal situation of another. It hasn’t worked… Even as a pressure method it failed.” The famous blogger is now back in Europe and is schedueled to be in Miami to start April.
Read MoreIt’s difficult to summarize in a short review everything that has been done in the country in terms of sports. Nevertheless, the outcomes speak for themselves. From the start of the Olympic Games in 1896 up until 1956, Cuba won only four Olympic gold medals. However in its 54 years of revolution the island won 67 gold medals by 2012.
Read MoreCuba has a new, younger, first vice president but does that really mean anything? As long as there’s no recognition of the economic, political and social failure of the centralized wage-labor state-centered model, the neo-Stalinist model, there will not be true socialist renewal.
Read MoreDepending on the observer’s knowledge and purchasing power, bottled water is viewed as either a necessity, a luxury, or an environmentally damaging and unnecessary commercial item. In the last analysis, it’s a reliable business for the companies whose products populate the supermarket shelves, and even for the small-time swindlers who refill the empty bottles with tap water with significant frequency.
Read MoreDays, weeks, months and years go by without achieving the promised computerization of Cuban society. Gone is the debate as to whether the Internet will be social or individual; most Internet users are ready to accept any option as long as they have access.
Read MoreThe cheering and speculation and endless debate are now all put to rest in the wake of the most polished, successful and entertaining WBC to date; and perhaps it is now time for some final thoughts and perspectives from a writer who has witnessed each of Team Cuba’s twenty Classic games from a front row press box seat.
Read MoreSome adversaries of socialism are now boasting that with the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Socialism of the 21st Century movement has been orphaned and they are predicting — as much as yearning — its accelerated demise.
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