On September 18, 1980, a joint Soviet Union-Cuba exploration spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the former Soviet Union, under the command of Colonel Yuri Romanenko and the Cuban Colonel, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez.
Read MoreAs Einstein once said, every crisis is a challenge that forces us to exploit our potential to the full, and since scammers and rip-off merchants are here to stay, it seems to me, we might as well create the job of “Scam Detector “, especially with the renewed enthusiasm there is today for self-employment.
Read MoreCuba’s leaders like decisive and overwhelming victories, which is what they have proclaimed to the world for five decades. While it’s true that they’ve never been able to overcome economic inefficiencies, they did achieve crushing military victories several times, from the Bay of Pigs to Cuito Cuanavale (in Angola).
Read MoreHopefully the authorities won’t interpret this article as an exhortation to violate rights in the name of national identity. It wouldn’t be the first time. And, besides, they would do it with the argument of responding to a complaint from the people.
Read MoreThe little expression “anti-capitalist” is very much in vogue today “We’re anti-capitalists.” Our position is “anti-capitalist.” Our revolutionary program is “anti-capitalist.” “Down with the capitalist enemy.” “Death to the capitalists.” This is how many people express themselves. Yet reading and listening to some of these “anti-capitalists,” I’m amazed to find that they defend state capitalism.
Read MoreImportant Cuban intellectuals have just signaled an alert about the sexist and machismo content of some songs being massively spread across the island, something that apparently the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) hasn’t noticed.
Read MoreTall, with a nice looking face and piercing green eyes — though maybe too thin for his height — he demanded that we go find Piet Heyn, wherever he was. Nothing could be any easier, I said, all we would have to do is go to the city of Matanzas; he’d be standing exactly in front of the bay where in 1628 he captured his greatest treasure, taking it from the Spanish for pirates and corsairs in the Americas.
Read MoreIs it proper for a citizen of the imperialist United States to set forth an article suggesting how Cubans might modify their form of socialism? I believe it is. Socialism is a worldwide movement; and what fails or succeeds in the land of Marti has implications for every country on the globe, as well as for all future generations.
Read MoreA friend of mine, very excited, told us that one evening he had walked by G Street and 15th, where he saw people painting on a huge wall on one of the central streets of the Vedado district. Intrigued by the size of the image, he returned the next day and was shocked by what he believed was more than just a mural
Read MoreThe corruption that prevails in Cuba today is that which occurs in the process of the primitive accumulation of capital by a political elite in its bourgeois metamorphosis.
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