A few days ago I read a story about how when home repair materials are put up for sale, all traces of those products disappear within 40 minutes, a fact that speaks to the real needs of citizens here in Cuba.
Read MoreWhen it turns 8:00 pm in Cuba, I try to sit down in front of the TV to enjoy what our television news provides the people. What’s struck me of late is that in other parts of the world, people take to the streets to protest for their rights.
Read MoreCuba’s foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez said the blockade has been a failure, but I disagree. On the contrary, I think it’s been quite successful. However, I do agree with the conclusions reached by the foreign minister and with those who voted against the embargo at the UN.
Read MoreThe truth is that my mother deserves special recognition for her being so persistent. From when I started kindergarten through the 9th grade, every morning she was pushing me to attend school.
Read MoreA group of international journalists were invited by the World Tourism Organization to their Central American trade fair (CATM) held in Panama, and in this context we visited Kuna Yala, an autonomous region inhabited by the Kuna community. Many of the things I saw among the Kuna surprised me. One was to find a nation where people, and especially their political leaders, talked to me with respect and even admiration for both Havana and Washington at the same time.
Read MoreThe death of Laura Pollan occurred at a time that the Ladies in White were redefining their place on the Cuban political scene.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreGadhafi 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.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreRecently 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.
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