“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.
Read MoreRivera 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.
Read MoreToday 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.
Read MoreIt 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.
Read MoreElias 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.
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