As I learned about Haitian President Michel Martelly’s recent visit to Cuba, I was forced to reflect on my childhood memories in La Guira, Banes, a United Fruit Company Soweto-type, sugar cane plantation community in Holguin.
Read MoreAccording to one of the criticisms elicited by my article “Cuba’s One-Party State is the Main Obstacle” published in Havana Times, multiparty systems are a bad idea because they are invariably corrupt and inevitably involve the unprincipled politicking that characterized pre-revolutionary Cuba and other electoral systems in capitalist countries.
Read MoreThe five Cubans were convicted of charges that were not proven; rather, the jurors responded to constant pressure and intimidation by terrorist groups based in South Florida. For this same reason the five were sentenced to unreasonably long sentences.
Read MoreOn Monday I was in the waiting room at my hospital when the noontime news came on. The broadcast began with information about the headline of the moment here in Cuba: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez undergoing cancer treatment in our country.
Read MoreMy colleague Angel Thomas told me that during the early years of the Cuban Revolution, political debates were constant and many leaders — including Fidel Castro — used to go to the University of Havana to talk with students. Unfortunately I wasn’t around during that time.
Read MoreAlmost two decades later, Jan Nijman didn’t hesitate in dubbing it the “Mistress of the Americas” and presenting his arguments about this new global city, which has never been relevant on a national level, and which owes its importance to its ability to coordinate hemispheric flows of everything that moves (goods, services, capital, people and cocaine).
Read MoreMany people talk and write about the “need for change” in the world – and they’re right! The only problem is that an appeal or demand for change won’t necessarily lead to the right place.
Read MoreJust like in elementary school, junior high and last year in senior high school, I feel alone. Apart from my friend who’s also engaged in this long struggle against an absurd prejudice, no one has joined in to support us.
Read MoreThe problem is that people don’t eat “impacts” – they eat fruits, vegetables and meat. The only “impact” they experience is that felt by the increasingly higher prices at agricultural markets, where a pound of potatoes now costs $2 USD in some places.
Read MoreCertainly there are born revolutionaries, but they’re the exceptions. Now, being strictly honest, how many human beings have proven themselves to be “revolutionary” (re-evolutionary?). How many can be revolutionary in every single aspect that society needs?
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