It must be incredible to come back from the dead. That’s what Fidel has done, one more entry in his book of innumerable combats. I have a journalist friend in California, an expert in all things Cuban, who has been waiting four years for Fidel to die just so she can despair.
Read MoreThe bureaucracy has two paths: merge with the people by sharing power with the workers, or try to swim with the sharks of foreign capital, which in our case —since we’re not big fish like in China or Russia— would mean our being devoured. I refuse to believe that this latter is what Fidel and Raul want.
Read MoreWhen assuring that the model no longer works, the Commandant facilitated the path being pursued by General Raul Castro so that he can change everything that he judges necessary to change, without other political leaders being able to oppose him, shielded behind the flag of “Fidelism.”
Read MoreWhat did Fidel mean when he replied to Goldberg’s question “if he believed the Cuban model was still something worth exporting?” Both Goldberg and Fidel agree that Fidel replied: “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”
Read MoreShe was the heart of our family. When she died suddenly, on September 15, we believed that everything would end for us. We thought that in her casket was not only leaving her perfect body, her beautiful face and her tender smile, but that our happiness, the family’s unity and the love of all the siblings, cousins and nephews would also leave.
Read MoreMany of you are wondering and waiting, when will the Presidential Announcement on new U.S. Cuba Travel regulations be made? Will Congress take up HR. 4645, the Cuba Ag/Travel legislation? This is what we do know. The President’s expected announcement sits in the White House waiting for..? Waiting for what?
Read MoreThe debate is sometimes sharp, at moments tense, closed; nor is it between individuals under the same conditions. Many revolutionaries and communists debate from the inside, which involves precariousness, patience and tolerance.
Read MoreFidel Castro said on Friday that he was accurately quoted but misinterpreted in the preview of an in-depth interview conducted in Cuba by US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.
Read MoreI remember a private party in which trova musician Pedro Luis Ferrer sang some of his more critical songs. One of the Cuban participants told him with delight: “That’s it; we should reconstruct the Cuba we had before that guy came to power.”
Read MoreWhen the tragedies hit home, when we go to the doctor but can’t find a cure, when a boy or girl begins to suffer strange attacks, when a parent loses a child —or a child a parent—, when a relative finds themselves in jail… in the midst of all such difficult situations, many of us Cubans call upon our Patron Saint for guidance, for the power to endure all pain and to even remedy our misfortunes.
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