Seeing the wave of self-employed businesses in Havana, I am struck by the boom in video games. With eye-catching posters and flyers distributed throughout the city, they attract kids who rush off to ruin their sight on the flashing screens … and their parents by throwing their money away. (9 photos)
Read MoreIn Chavez was born an awakening; in him was born an era of change not only for Venezuela, but for the world. It began in the pearl of the Caribbean, the mother of Bolivar, and gradually it awakened the peoples of Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Nicaragua, Uruguay and other nations.
Read MoreA few weeks ago Mariela Castro (MC) was interviewed by Salim Lamrani on a number of issues regarding homosexuality in Cuba and related government policies there. I think this was one of the worst things MC has offered the public – her fans included. I say this because this exposure given to MC is really so absurd and erratic that it sounds like a poorly told children’s story.
Read MoreMy subjective perception of the matter is that gender violence is very common in Cuba, but at the same time there are elements of Cuban society that facilitate women breaking out of a violent situation.
Read More“Death is not true when one’s life work has been carried out well; the cranium of a thinker turns to dust, but their thoughts live forever, bearing the fruit of what that thinker envisioned.” Jose Marti wrote these words on March 5, 1876. Coincidentally, it was also on March 5 — but in 2013 — that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez ceased to exist physically.
Read MoreThere are people who want to see a settling of accounts in Cuba as if they’re pursuing some sort of a vendetta, hoping to liquidate the current historical leadership of the revolution – who they see as needing to pay for their mistakes and disappear from the political scene forever.
Read MoreObama split the blockade in half, doing away the measures that George W. Bush had taken against Cuba in terms of remittances, travel, visas, package shipments, etc. while still preserving it as an aggressive instrument against the Cuban government.
Read MoreThere are notable differences from the European case, but if in Cuba we give members of cooperative the rights they deserve, ensuring they can comply with their contractual obligations, we’ll find a reasonable manner to move towards a better future.
Read More“Next week I’m going there with my old lady to hang out a little, eat some chicken and look at a few books.” That was what I heard a man saying to his friend recently on the bus. We were en route to downtown Havana and passed by the Morro Cabaña Complex, the main site of the Havana International Book Fair.
Read MoreThe Cuba Study Group (CSG), formed by Cuban-American businessmen, intellectuals and political activists who identify with the so-called “moderate line of the exile community,” has just issued a document titled “Restoring Executive Authority Over U.S. Policy Toward Cuba,” in which it criticizes U.S. policy toward the island and sets forth its proposals for change.
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