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The Message of Cuba’s Ladies in White

The death of Laura Pollan occurred at a time that the Ladies in White were redefining their place on the Cuban political scene.

In Cuba the Passing of the Torch Is Assured

What remained clear to me on Friday is that the generation that succeeded us has taken up the torch. Perhaps many things will change, and plenty more to come, but there will always be slogans to shout, and of course there will always be those who shout them.

View from Cuba on the Killing of Gadhafi

Gadhafi was killed in his native town by rebel troops. After several months of bloody struggle, devastation, and material and human losses, the former Libyan leader was finished off. He who for more than four decades governed that African country died at the hands of his own people.

Make Yourself Independent

To be independent is the only way to be worthy of respect, therefore a people who depend on the whims of a government (foreign or domestic) and not on their own work to satisfy their economic needs cannot be worthy of respect.

Different Views on a Cuba Explosion

Recently I got my hands on an economic analysis of Cuba from a Western embassy, a study that paints a very different picture from what we’re accustomed to hearing.

Camila Would Rather Forget

Camila Estrada is happy now. After having been dogged by domestic violence for years, again she’s enjoying the company of her family. It’s like a dream from which she doesn’t want to wake.

Crummy Situations Don’t Last Forever

Recently I was at one of three ATM’s in my municipality. That day it was the only one in service. For some unknown reason the other two were out of money.

Cuba’s Old Junkers and the Privileged

With the new rules regarding the sale/purchase of vehicles, the government persists in its intention to monitor the processes of social mobility. Not like before, not in all the detail, but still managing the key variables and reserving a veto power.

Macintosh, Orwell and 1984

Thanks to these new technologies, the ability of elites to control information is much more difficult. Today an individual in the most remote location on the planet can communicate their ideas through the Internet to millions of people any other place on the earth.

A Glimpse of the Mondragon Cooperative Complex

My just-graduated-from-college son and I traveled to the Basque region of Spain recently for a one-week seminar and tour of the Mondragon Cooperative Complex (MCC), the famous worker-owned cooperatives. What I would like to do is provide a glimpse of a few aspects of Mondragon, and perhaps draw a few conclusions relevant to socialist Cuba. (58 photos)