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Emigration Manipulation & Cuba’s Left

If those who emigrated before to the 1970s were characterized as “scum,” ever since that decade there began to take shape a more sophisticated ideological and a growing economic use of Cuban emigrants.

Saved by the Parade

Leticia is an eight-year-old third grader. Last Friday she was supposed to have an English exam, a subject she has problems with and doesn’t like a whole lot. She was nervous all week because of the exam, at least until Thursday. That day, her teacher informed all the students that there wouldn’t be any classes on Friday because of rehearsals for the 50th anniversary Bay of Pigs victory parade and “military review.”

Cuba’s Clock Is Ticking Away

The power of the bureaucracy resides precisely in being able to decide who buys an automobile, who moves into a house, what a small farmer can raise, who travels or how much a self-employed worker pays for a license. And from that role of “Big Brother” also comes their dirty money.

Cuba Needs Dialogue not Violence

Inciting violence in Cuba today would serve the aims of imperialism. To avoid a Libyan situation here, let’s begin the dialogue and work together to improve our political system.

Does a Revolutionary Social Pact Exist in Cuba?

It has become fashionable to talk about the so-called revolutionary social pact and its crisis. Flowing from that, according to one’s likes, people refer to the revolution’s reformulation, completion or “upgrading”.

Fleeing Cuba for a Different Reason

There are immigrants who try to escape social insecurity, persecution and even war, but I’m sure that no one would imagine that a beautiful young woman would want to leave Cuba to escape a violent man.

Self-employed Work in Cuba (Part II)

At the end of this past December, when I wrote “Attempting Self-employed Work in Cuba,” Pepe was convinced that he could begin selling fried snacks by the end of January.

A Tech Way for Cuba to Take Its Pulse

Modern communications technology can help us get beyond the narrow leadership exercised over society by the group that continues to head the government/party. This is the action demanded for a new more inclusive socialist society.

A Rarified Air Engulfs Cuba

With time one comes to understand that all around us move hidden forces: octogenarian spies, decorated dissidents, not-so-independent journalists, crypto-bloggers, and secret operatives playing the roles of freemasons, academics and artists.

The Cuban People’s Guilt

Since I read the post “Guilty until proven innocent,” on several occasions I felt compelled to respond to its author, who posted her thought’s here on this Cuba focused online magazine.