Cuba’s President Raul Castro addressed his country’s parliament on Saturday at the closing of a session dedicated to discuss the economic reforms the government has begun to implement that include the laying off of some 500,000 public employees by the end of March and expand the possibilities for self-employment and small business.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro had sharp criticism Friday for his US counterpart Bill Clinton, the current UN Special Envoy to Haiti, in a commentary published in the Cuban press. HT brings you the full text of Castro’s commentary.
Read MoreNo one in his/her right mind can deny the extraordinary educational advances that Afro-Cubans have made in the past half century. Yet, the socio-economic gap between us and other ethnic groups has persisted and widened in many cases.
Read MoreOne should always keep it in mind that the shoe repairer is not the criminal but the victim of an economic model that has made the trafficking of influence and stolen goods the main source of income for its own bureaucracy.
Read MoreI would like to denounce the bureaucracy that puts limits even on how far one can go in struggling for life. I want to defend the right of people to feel like they’re running up against the limits of nature and not those of human whim.
Read MoreAccording to Fidel Castro, the multilateral agency “not only has to fulfil the elementary duty of fighting for the reconstruction and development of Haiti,” but also “to mobilize the necessary resources to eradicate” that disease, reported IPS.
Read MoreThe journalists who work for the Cuban media cannot dream of writing something that runs counter to the Party, which is the body that guides our State and our society. So what space is there for citizens who have different ideas to express; those who have a different vision of the reality here?
Read MoreWhat is not new information for the readers of this website is indeed news to Cuban university students.
Read MoreReferring to my commentaries, readers will say that these appear with an eternal nostalgia. I believe there’s no Cuban of my generation or of the previous ones who doesn’t suffer from the infection of nostalgia.
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