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Nationalities with Prefixes?

I’m speaking of expressions such as African-American, Afro-Latin, Indo-European, from my point of view these are no more than innovations implicitly carry a certain degree of discrimination.

Cuba: Coffee that Tastes Like Coffee

’ve never understood people’s addiction to coffee. I love its smell, and I find it delicious with milk or cream, but it’s almost impossible for me to drink it by itself. No matter how much sugar I add, there’s no way for it not to be unbearably bitter to me. That’s what I thought until this past Sunday.

Cuba Prohibits Its Citizens from Boarding Boats

A few days ago I went to Guanacabibes Peninsula, in the extreme west of the country. It’s an unspoiled nature reserve where one can see iguanas, deer, crocodiles and all kinds of birds – in addition to a wonderful seabed. Everything went fine until we wanted to participate in a diving excursion. We were denied access onto the yacht because among our group there were Cubans, who aren’t allowed to board.

Cuba: How to Recognize a Good Leader (I)

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.

Important Contribution to the Cuba Debate

The 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.

Cuba: The Prompting of Debate

The 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.

US celebrates Yoani, but not her message

Last 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.

Sports in Cuba: Another Achievement of the Revolution

It’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.

Cuba: A New VP & the Same Old Model

Cuba 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.

Cuban Pharmaceutical Companies bet on Miracle Water

Depending 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.