In December, HT held its meeting with over 20 contributing writers and photographers in attendance. With everyone bringing something to eat or drink, we always have a light lunch first and then get down to discussing the publication.
Read MoreRelations between Cuba and Europe could possibly take a turn in the medium term. Brussels appears willing to sit down and talk with Havana on the issues that divide them, supplanting unilateral measures with mutual agreement.
Read MoreAlan Gross should be released soon and unilaterally. Not because he’s innocent or because he’s some martyr of democracy, because obviously he’s not. His case involves an agent employed by a hostile foreign government to engage in illegal operations in Cuba.
Read MoreThousands of Cubans are lining up outside of Immigration Agency offices to apply for passports before January 14, the date on which the new law takes effect that will ease the entry and exit from the country by most citizens.
Read MoreWho will decide what is rude, banal or offensive? Clearly it would be unwise to leave this in the hands of Cuban television, the same ones who for decades refused to broadcast Strawberry and Chocolate, one of the best Cuban films of all time.
Read MoreFor the first time in fifty years, what we might call “socialist pragmatism” seems to be guiding the steps of the president of our country. President Raul Castro clearly shows his intentions to scrap Frankenstein’s monster of an economy that we’ve had for decades.
Read MoreThe resulting impact on Cuba is predictable. Whatever the post-Chavez outcome in Venezuela, Raul Castro will have to expect worse conditions than those that are currently maintaining him in power and will have to obtain some access to the US market, accepting the condescending gesture from Obama.
Read MoreOn December 7, the Granma newspaper reported on what may be called large-scale telephone fraud. Two foreign companies were able to provide mobile and landline telephone services to numbers of Cubans, charging them black market prices well below those set by the national telephone company, ETECSA, which typically monopolizes those services on the island.
Read MoreMiami is undoubtedly a highly emotional issue for Cubans: Some because they love it, others because they hate it and to quite a few who simply fear it.
Read MoreI first met Hugo Chavez in 1994. He had just gotten out of prison and came to visit Cuba and Fidel Castro, who received him with the honors given a head of state. As I listened to Chavez speak at the University of Havana, I was trying to understand what the Cuban leader was up to.
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