The post societies (post-industrial, post-communist, post-liberal, etc.) are always quite confused culturally because they tend to be defined more for negating than affirming. Or, better said, they affirm by denying.
Read MoreToday I got up earlier than usual. When the alarm clock sounded at 5:50 a.m., I’d already been up for a while puttering around in the kitchen. I was moving from here to there, shifting around from one way to another, but I still felt uncomfortable. My whole body ached. The day before I’d watched the game between our Guantanamo and Granma.
Read MoreWe are now marking 15 years since that repressive act which spelled the end to the boldest and most competent center for social research that existed in Cuba after 1959.
Read MoreIt’s known that hegemonic interests manipulate information on conflicts of every nature; but it’s also known that each person reacts to such information according to their interests, vision and convictions. The more cultured, free, democratic and socialized a society is, the better it can face the challenges of international networks.
Read MoreIt’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.
Read MoreIn 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 MoreWhat 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 MoreWe 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 MoreIn 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 MoreNo 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.
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