It’s no secret that the educational systems of different societies are geared to reproduce the conditions prevailing in those societies. Nor is it a groundbreaking discovery that an education system is much more than the school system..
Read MoreNews indicates that the sales of luxury cars grew this year worldwide, especially BMW, which had solid gains and record sales in the month of September. Similarly, in Argentina for example, Porsches, Mercedes, Audis and BMWs showed sales increases of 11 percent.
Read MoreIn my country, Venezuela, there’s a very common expression that goes: Juego de manos, juego de villanos (sleight of hand, a game of villains). Mothers will often say this when when their children begin playing by simulating fantastic fights.
Read MoreWhat can we expect if Hugo Chavez leaves the Venezuelan political scenario in the near future? What will happen to the Bolivarian Revolution that he leads at home and in other ALBA countries and the region? These questions are addressed in a commentary published on the Lagurura.net webpage from Maracaibo, Venezuela, which we are publishing here in full (HT translation).
Read MoreMiguel Angel Ferrer is a Mexican professor of political economy and an analyst for several publications and radio programs. His blog entries focus on the politics of his nation, though nothing so far has identified him as a HIV/AIDS researcher or activist.
Read MoreThe year 2012 ended with a phrase by Raul Castro that summarizes the dilemma of life or death of the Cuban Revolution: the obstacles that are acting as brakes on the productive forces must be removed. The Cuban model (a faithfully copied Soviet replica) contains the same bureaucratic weaknesses that led European socialism to its debacle that ended in economic stagnation, technological backwardness and agricultural productivity reduced to minimal levels.
Read MoreCareer opportunities make women carefully consider the fact that by having a child they will be kept away from their work for a while just at the age when they’re beginning their professional lives. Other factors causing population aging include health care advances, the housing shortage, the high cost of living and emigration.
Read MoreThe recent immigration reforms enacted by the Cuban government were greeted with joy by intellectuals, foreign governments and international organizations. Now I I invite those doing the cheering to take a moment and pay attention to the case of Rosa Maria Paya.
Read MoreThe issue of racism must also be raised in schools, since there is a need to infuse it into our culture and science, and to broadcast information about discrimination over the media. Otherwise the social mechanism we possess for eliminating it will not function.
Read MoreCooperatives are now being formed in Cuba in the service sector, which includes transportation, plus some productive sectors such as fishing and construction. Agriculture was the traditional area in which cooperatives existed, and now even these have greater autonomy from government control.
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