Tall, 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.
Read MoreThis isn’t about a simple incidence of robbery in which one person happens to appropriate something that doesn’t belong to them. This is a widespread practice in which individuals and officials take advantage of their positions to divert public resources for their own advantage.
Read MoreOur “parliamentary” system is actually the same as what existed under failed “real socialism” – in the so-called “people’s democracies” and the “state of all the people” in the USSR.
Read MoreThe inappropriately named “Cuban Electric Company” (it wasn’t Cuban) only made investments in large cities, where it could quickly recover its investment. The countryside and small towns on the island didn’t produce the big profits; therefore they didn’t “deserve” to receive that service.
Read MoreIt’s the same to me if a TV costs 300 CUCs or 7200 CUPs (at an exchange rate of 1:24). Anyway, the important thing is to have the money, whether it comes from remittances sent from “the beyond,” or whether it’s earned by selling avocados or it’s the payout from “La Bolita” (playing the numbers).
Read MoreOne of the most important things I learned from living in Europe was not to fear getting into politics. When I was still living in Cuba, opinions were stated behind closed doors, in low voices, and looking to the sides, not wanting to get oneself into problems.
Read MoreA recent and alarming cervical crisis led me to become aware of the long hours I spend sitting at my laptop in an unnatural and harmful posture. As well as how I had forgotten that basic freedom that I discovered back in the 80´s in dance.
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