Don’t Fret and Enjoy the Games
It’s sad to think that only because a certain team will not be in the playoffs, hundreds of thousands of Cubans want to hear nothing more about baseball.
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Opinion
Industriales Out Is Havana Blues
In Cuba, when someone has lost a fight they’ll usually say, “There’s nothing like tomorrow,” The expression is loaded with vengefulness, or perhaps a halo of hope in the face of adversity.
Read MoreOn Cuba’s Devaluation & Further Proposals
What is especially needed are changes in the current state relations of wage-labor production and in the bureaucratic regulations that constrain popular creativity and the generation of necessary consumer goods and services.
Read MoreCuba Puts the Cart Before the Horse
We might think that this is a temporary situation — with political content — directed to complicate the lives of the foreign press corps working in Cuba. However this lack of forewarning occurs much more often than what economists advise.
Read MoreThose of Us Who Stayed in Cuba
In that spring of 1980, with the events at the Peruvian embassy in Havana and the mass exodus from the port at Mariel, my family too aspired to be part of that multitude of people who crammed onto boats almost to the point of their capsizing.
Read MoreThe Honeymoon, Virtual War and Real Life
No doubt there must have been a wedding here in Cuba that I wasn’t invited to; that’s the only explanation for how anyone can repeat — over and over again — that the case of Alan Gross spells an end to the “honeymoon” between Washington and Havana.
Read MoreSensitivity or the Instinct for Self-Preservation?
“The loosening of the restructuring rope in Cuba is not motivated by any socialist sensitivity, but by the classist instinct for self-preservation,” says Haroldo Dilla in his commentary for Havana Times.
Read MoreCuba, US Diplomats Can Save Alan Gross
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 MoreNeoliberal Strategy Failing in Cuba
The 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 MoreCuba Shouldn’t Throw Away the Sofa!
The 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.
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