I remember in the 1990s when a fax came to my office reporting that the US ambassador’s dog had been expelled. The first thing I thought was that there’d been some break in diplomatic relations expressed in unusually crude terms.
Read MoreI consider this award of recognition proper and commendable. However it would be good that starting from now nothing else were given to Cuban residents in Cuba or to nonresidents who reaffirm not only their patriotism but their identification with the system on the island.
Read MoreThe majority of people still don’t know it (and those who know keep quiet), but the hip hop symposium is the official consequence of what had been the highly acclaimed Alamar Rap Festival.
Read MoreIf the “fruit” ended up maturing and fulfilling the prediction made by the sixth president of the United States, we would have to “thank” that model implanted in Cuba in the name of “socialism and working class power.”
Read MoreThe recent topic of debate between Havana and Miami is the “Cuban Adjustment Act.” Thanks to that legislation (1966), any citizen from the island who steps onto US soil receives residency, just as if they were a political refugee.
Read MoreIf there’s one thing I understand clearly, it’s that I wouldn’t like to live in a country that wasn’t my own, nor one under a capitalist regime. But what’s capitalism, really? And is Cuba truly a socialist country?
Read MoreSumbe, a movie by Eduardo Moya about Cuba’s military involvement in the Angolan war against colonialism and apartheid, is currently being shown in Havana cinemas.
Read MoreFew Latin American leaders have ever stirred up as much hatred and fear among our continent’s wealthy sectors and their principal partners as has the leader of the Cuban revolution, though currently President Hugo Chavez is not far behind in being the elite’s favorite target of rage.
Read MoreEvery time Cuba’s general/president Raul Castro talks about “updating” something, I really don’t understand what he means. It’s probable that he’s doing this for that very reason, so that no one will understand him.
Read MoreFrom the first scenes, I found the manipulation of Cuban life so suspect that I doubted that the subsequent course of the film could save it from that initial elementary lack of sincerity.
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