Immigration Reform and Ricardo Alarcon’s Good Heart
Under the current system, all Cubans, inside and outside, are compelled to conduct themselves “properly” if they want to leave and enter the country.
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Opinion
Proposal for Socializing Cuba’s Medical System
This doesn’t mean privatizing the Cuban health care system and turning it over to capital to exploit doctors and patients, but instead limiting the role of the government, socializing production, for the good of the services provided and the workers.
Read MoreA Unique Opportunity for Change in the USA
The above title was the same one I used for a short commentary I wrote in November 2008, just days after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. Today, he enters his re-election campaign — after four years of doing what he shouldn’t have done and not doing what people hoped he would do.
Read MoreFor Those Whose Birthday Is Today
Not long ago my mother turned 71. An event that mattered to few but made me reflect deeply. I remember the sort of feeling of immunity she gave us, my sisters and me, when we were little.
Read MoreCuban Dissidents: Behind the Dreamed of Paradise
“My name is Barbara Duenas. I’m one of the relatives of the former Cuban political prisoners who arrived in Spain in August 2010. I’m the ex-wife of Marcelo Cano, from the “Group of 75″ [imprisoned in 2003]. I live in Tarragona and I’m alone with my daughter. Since February 19, I haven’t received any assistance and I don’t know what to do.”
Read MoreThe Internet in Cuba and a Sense of Guilt
In Cuba, access to the Internet is a privilege held by a small group that includes foreign residents on the island, PhDs in any field, senior political leaders, military officers, reporters, a few artists and writers, and people with sufficient money to pay for an illegal account.
Read MoreConcerning Chilean Student Leader Camila Vallejo’s visit to Cuba
The visit by the Chilean student leader Camilla Vallejo (CV) to Cuba has been an opportunity to make mistakes that were well taken advantage of by everyone. It’s unfortunate that a woman as brave and as smart has been put in contact with a reality so reprehensible without her being able to raise her own criticisms.
Read MoreSupporting the Cuban Revolution at a Distance
Something strange often happens when I am with a foreigner and I criticize the system in my country. They’re taken aback and rebuke me for being ungrateful, naive, and ignorant, in daring to criticize the reality in which I live because I don’t know what the reality is like in other countries.
Read MoreNew Cooperative Policy Big for Socialism
Cuban reform czar Marino Murillo has just presented “a policy that has been adopted for the experimental creation of non-agricultural cooperatives.” My first reaction is to celebrate this step.
Read MoreIs There Really An Opposition In Cuba?
Those who receive money from a foreign power — one which is also the self-declared enemy of the Cuban Revolution — cannot be regarded as a simple opponents. They are mercenaries and counter-revolutionaries.
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