“CAFE” is the acronym of a new Cuban-American organization. It stands for Cuban Americans for Engagement, a promising name that seems to indicate the will of their supporters to involve themselves in actions and policies in support of the Cuban community in the United States.
Read MoreLast night I attended a meeting in my building to appoint a new president of our CDR. Despite the repeated call for a possible candidate (even a self-nominated one), the general reaction remained one of silence. Thirteen representatives from thirty apartments was not a very flattering figure. Yet, the gazes remained blank, without even a shadow of guilt.
Read MoreThis past Monday (April 23), Frank left Cuba and finally made it to Miami. He met his father there and will later go to New Jersey to spend some time with his mother, who’s anxiously waiting for him.
Read MoreBaseball in Cuba seems doomed to fade into the background behind the overwhelming advance of the world’s number one sport: soccer, which is capturing the hearts of the island’s youth. To confirm this, all one has to do is go out on a Sunday afternoon to any neighborhood or small town.
Read MoreIt’s time for the left — all those individuals and collective defenders of anti-capitalist, socialist, and revolutionary democratic ideas, ranging from intellectuals to certain officials within the party and the government, and especially the many rank-and-file communists — to consider regrouping our own forces to defend the popular gains previously achieved.
Read MoreThe Cuban Catholic Church organized a discussion last weekend on the reintegration of the diaspora into Cuba. Those participating included a group of leading intellectuals in exile, scores of scholars from the island, as well as religious believers and lay people.
Read MoreThe title of “Poster Girl” suggests a story – true or fictitious – about one of those lovely girls (her loveliness almost always enhanced a bit by the computer) that we see on magazine covers, showing off their ideal faces and bodies so beyond our reach.
Read MoreWithout a doubt, the presence of Cuban doctors and paramedics in Haiti is something that has to be considered as positive. For many reasons, that country should be a preferred object of our foreign policy.
Read MoreIt’s good to know how things work in the United States – it keeps our dissatisfaction with the Cuban government from leading us to prefer the US model. I only think that if we talk about democracy, this is a good time to address our own.
Read MoreThe story of children in Cuba during the revolutionary period begins with a dark chapter: “Operation Peter Pan,” organized and financed by the CIA and implemented with the complicity of some Catholic priests and Falangists.
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