They caught me by surprise on the corner of 23rd and “L”. As always, the gardens around the Coppelia ice cream shop – made famous by the movie “Strawberries and Chocolate”- were surrounded by long lines of Cubans, some waiting patiently and some impatiently for their only opportunity for a good ice cream in regular pesos.
Read MoreUnfortunately, in our country it doesn’t matter much if you’re a professional or a technician. Someone who has studied or works harder doesn’t live any better than anyone else.
Read MoreI appreciate opinions that come with arguments calling on our national press to raise and pursue questions to their logical conclusion. Even if it means going after those in the highest spheres of government who are responsible for dictating prices and importing the products sold to the public.
Read MoreIn straightforward language, understandable by Muzhiks and Cossacks alike, Lenin noted that a revolutionary situation occurred when those above can no longer govern as before, and those below can no longer bear their government as before.
Read More“The way forward is to give more power to citizens and to protect them legally. In this way, that pressure will change the behavior of government employees. Procedures should have clearly regulated steps and well-defined limits.”
Read MoreIn 2007 I met a young foreigner who — inspired by the work of Cuban internationalist doctors in Africa — had decided to study medicine in Cuba. Can anyone deny the incredible work done by our internationalist doctors throughout Africa and in Venezuela, Haiti and other countries?
Read MoreA few days ago I got the information* through my e-mail about a new tax being imposed on travelers who bring in food products into the country in their luggage. Such nourishment is NOT in commercial quantities, but is to help feed their families.
Read MoreEveryone 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].
Read MoreTania, 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?”
Read MoreBeware 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.
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