US citizen Alan Gross was just sentenced in Cuba to 15 years in prison for participating in a US-AID program seeking regime change on the island. Now it’s up to the two countries’ diplomats to come to some sort of mutually beneficial agreement that would allow the 61-year-old Maryland resident to return home.
Read MoreThe president indicated that our main enemy is presented by our own errors, as he dragged through the mud those who constantly blame external factors as the cause of all our difficulties.
Read MoreThe greatest danger that Cuba faces is falling for the temptation to retrench and adopt a defensive position by “dynamiting” bridges — in this case the Internet — in order to impede any “enemy” advance.
Read More“In any part of the world, such as in Cuba today and in “Our America,” the struggle against capitalist, bureaucratic and patriarchal domination will only culminate with the expansion of a radically free society under the principles of solidarity, self-management and autonomy.”
Read MoreWhen I was a little girl, I remember having seen my mother standing in the kitchen doorway on more than one occasion with a depressed look. When I would ask her what was wrong, she would respond, “It’s that I don’t know what I’ll cook today.” I would simply shrug my shoulders and then scamper away to play.
Read MoreI can only imagine not having a job. At times I might ask myself what difference it makes since what I’m paid isn’t close to what my family needs, but the answer comes to me quickly: Without that little bit of monthly cash, our economic situation would be even worse.
Read MoreIt seems that a very young teacher, when referring to the author of the well-known book “The Little Prince,” gave as a biographical fact that he was a bad pilot and had many problems because he would become distracted when flying airplanes.
Read MoreFidel Castro published part two on Friday of his warning about an imminent NATO military intervention in Libya. While not openly supporting the actions of Libyan leader Gadaffi he maintains that a foreign intervention would go against the sovereignty of the North African nation.
Read MoreUndoubtedly the changes taking place on the island have “disoriented” those who insist on assuring that nothing is happening. At times I have the impression that some fear the reforms more than the immobilism.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro reaffirmed his forecasts about an “inevitable military intervention that will take place in Libya,” in one of his usual Reflections published by the island’s state-run press. Castro criticized U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for sprinkling “a great deal of fuel on the fire” and accused the United States and its European allies of wanting to take advantage of the civil war in that African country.
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