“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.
Read MoreI’m a big fan of video games. But only the ones where there’s strategy involved. I’m not interested in that car racing stuff and I hate games with a military theme. I played my first game when I was two, that’s what my mother says. The mouse was huge in my tiny hands but my eyes were glued to the screen.
Read MoreWhen there’s a lot to say, it’s better to write little. When it comes to the award-winning Uruguayan writer Daniel Chavarria, who has lived among us for so long, it was unfortunate to hear about the slip he made by denying proven facts concerning the repression of homosexuals in Cuba.
Read MoreFormer President Fidel Castro, 86, made a surprise speech to the Cuban parliament on Sunday, the day his younger brother Raul Castro, 81, was reelected to another 5-year term as president and Miguel Diaz-Canel promoted to the first vice president’s post.
Read MoreIf Yoani Sanchez — with fine irony — thought that a vice president under 80 years of age would be a good sign of renewal, I think February 24 gave her more than that. Frankly I think the whole electoral process gave some very interesting signals about where Cuban society is moving.
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