Taken from one of the most recent speeches by General/President Raul Castro, the little phrase “Say what you think or want” traveled the world. Some viewed the matter with bitter skepticism, others with infantile contentment.
Read MoreI have the impression that today no one is proud of having participated in those “meetings of repudiation.” In all the years that I’ve lived in Cuba, I’ve never found a single person who admitted to having thrown eggs at those who left.
Read MoreAll political systems, even the most authoritarian, coexist with a certain degree of critical discord. All of them, even the most democratic, also attempt to trivialize those disagreements and reduce them to the symbolic/token plane.
Read MoreThis Saturday, the first rays of light announced that it would be an ideal day for just about any family plan. If it wasn’t for the fact that I was flat broke, it looked like it would be a perfect day.
Read MoreIt’s now impossible to conceal the most dangerous counter-revolutionary forces because they have the capacity to hold back the necessary changes. They are within the very own bureaucracy of the party/government. They are the forces that speak of change but don’t change anything, those who oppose the slightest basic change.
Read MoreIn several posts published here at Havana Times, people have commented about the increase of violence in our country. As for me, I refer particularly to gender violence in my town, Guantanamo City.
Read MoreI’m particularly thinking about the report on Cuba’s agriculture, which has continued without showing any signs of improvement, despite it being a priority because of its economic as well as its national security implications.
Read MoreWhen people from other countries hear the word “Guantanamo,” the first thing that comes to their minds is the existence of a prison that infringes on basic human liberties and the area’s occupation by a United States military base.
Read More“It’s impossible, to speak poorly of him.,” said my daughter Charlene. I discovered someone who insisted on seeing everyone as good, in each individual case scrutinizing all possible virtues – no matter how slight.
Read MoreI imagine that at some moment in our lives almost all of us have wanted to disappear, die or at least be far from our job, our house, the neighborhood, our family and even our friends.
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