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So Where’s the Cable?

Everyone now knows that there were serious problems of bureaucratic corruption in the handling of the matter (of the fiber optic cable) by the MIC [the Ministry of Informatics and Communications].

Tania Wants to Live in Another Country

Tania, one of my daughters, is always telling me that she wants to live somewhere else. One day she talked to me about Brazil. “Brazil’s really pretty!” she said to me a while back. I then asked, “But how do you know if you’ve never been there?”

The Real Situation in Cuba (Part I)

Beware of titles like this. Be suspicious of anything that attempts to tell the absolute truth about something – especially if that something is Cuba. Instead, take a gaming dice in your hands and try to see all six sides at the same time. The truth is like a dice, but with more sides.

Rivera Doesn’t Want Cubans to Vote in the US or Prosper in Cuba

Rivera wants to maintain the perception that Cubans are ruthlessly persecuted, but he doesn’t want those who “escape” to be able to vote against him or to get in the way of his plans to incite a violent revolution.

The Death of Ray Bradbury

Today I learned about the death of Bradbury. The writer, 91, was one of my Russian mother’s favorite science fiction creators. For me he illuminated key moments in my life – childhood, adolescence and youth.

Cuba: The Death of the King of England and Marianao

It was 60 years this June since Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of England after her father, King George VI, died in February of 1952. I was twelve years old at the time and was a high-school freshman at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza de Marianao.

The Safe Streets of Cuba

Elias Carranza, a senior UN official for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders Institute, said Cuba is the safest country in the region. It is free of the critical situation of violence that characterizes the continent, with the island having made great achievements in reducing crime.

Living in a Dump

I remember that when I was a little girl, I liked to walk around outside our apartment building and search through the grass for treasures that chance would place in my path: a piece of gold-foil paper, a button in a peculiar shape, a piece of a toy… (8 photos)

Cuba’s Ailing Nationalism

Hardly anyone speaks of socialism in Cuba, a better world or the laws of history blowing at the nation’s back – core arguments from when there were more Soviet flags in Havana Bay than in Red Square.

Socialism Through Socialist Means

I will refer to one concrete philosophical element present in ideologies: the relationship between the means and ends, a matter of prime importance for understanding and undertaking political tasks and those of any other nature.