The Cuban Communist Party (PCC) is in the process of “updating” the Cuban model of socialism. An important question should be examined: What, with regard to updating the model, is the proper role of the small entrepreneurial class, the small bourgeoisie?
Read MoreI need to let everyone who’s reading this know about my recent experience with the Cuban health care system. We usually discuss what’s poorly done and we don’t always publicly acknowledge the selfless work carried out by our health care workers.
Read MoreLast year, 14,000 teachers left the classroom with medical leave certificates or requesting self-employment licenses, while this summer another 4,000 gave up teaching without excuses. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the slots to study teaching careers are vacant.
Read MoreHe has fullfilled his mission, living long enough to ensure the transition (we don’t know to what), so that the Cuban people will slowly adapt to the idea of continutity of what we call the revolution but without Fidel Castro.
Read MoreMy girlfriend is a teacher. She earns 500 pesos and her salary is never enough. Her mother has to help the best she can. In August, she ran out of money near the first of the month. We survived by selling things.
Read More“Scientists say we’re made of atoms, but a little birdie told me we’re made of stories. One truth of the Mayan Indians is that we’re children of the days, and therefore every day a new story is born.”
Read MoreAn explanation was published by Cuba’s Electric Company under the headline: “Commission Reports on the Cause of the Sept. 9 Blackout.” According to the memo, this is the report by the committee that was set up to investigate the accident, its causes and the conditions that led to the breakdown.
Read MoreThe absence of the right to travel abroad since the sixties has been a major source of discontent among Cubans. With the measures recently adopted by his government, Raúl Castro is now trying to lower the intensity of that discontent by making the existing rules to leave and enter the country more flexible, and in the process, achieve other goals.
Read MoreAll around the world people are writing stories and articles on the internet telling about their lives as well as discussing what’s happening in their neighborhoods, provinces and countries. Cubans are one of the few peoples on the planet who can’t do this freely, at least not the way we’d like.
Read MoreCubans go to the polls on Sunday October 21 to elect neighborhood delegates. The Cuban president isn’t elected by the citizens, nor do they elect the vice president, or the presidents of the municipal or provincial assemblies, which would be the counterparts to mayors and governors.
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