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Cuba’s Reforms: “If They Win We Lose”

One 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.

Loving to a Certain Point

I 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.

Cubaleaks

I believe a Cubaleaks would work marvels. I know journalists who would love to be able to write about those issues and many citizens willing to provide information about current-day cases that remain mysteriously in the shadows.

Cuba’s Fidel Sees UN in Haiti Cholera

According 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.

Freedom of the Press in Cuba

The 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?

Truth Is Like an Elephant

What is not new information for the readers of this website is indeed news to Cuban university students.

As Old as the Morro Fortress Itself

Referring 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.

The Abakuas in the Streets of Havana

In 1871, five Cuban black men led an armed action in protest of the shooting of eight medical students. After 139 years, other men and women from this island — in the middle of the street — tried to grant just recognition for that act of bravery. (47 photos)

Cuba Municipalities & the Reforms

If what is involved is the advance toward more balanced territorial development through the formation of production and service linkages, then the formation of strong, transparent and participative municipalities is not an alternative that can discounted.

A Delayed Response

I can’t say that I’ve seen any direct repercussions, but there has indeed been something insinuated: If the decision makers and experts in these areas have opted for this path, we can imagine that our timid hopes for the legal recognition of unions different from heterosexual ones are far from being realized.