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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.

By Way of an Excuse

I owe an excuse to the readers of Havana Times. First for the number of times that I’ve written about the issue of public transportation in Cuba, which I imagine is pretty boring to any outsider. Secondly, because every time I’ve written on the subject up until now, it’s been to complain…the ingrate that I am.

Cuba Dreams, Applause Is the Easy Part

Curiously, over the last several months, the positions of the small dissident movement, émigrés and the government concurred in pointing out that no reforms are taking place in the country, only adjustments to the model that has functioned in Cuba for 40 years.

Cuba Faces High Jump with Obstacles

Underemployment is a burden that has taken its toll on our social system for several years now, and whose solution was continually deferred for numbers of reasons with the consequent worsening of the problem.

Cuba’s New Reforms Bode Shaky Future

When revolutionary, communist, anarchist organizers are engaged in workers struggles under capitalism, one of their best arguments when confronted by management that their demands are not economically possible is the demand: “Open the books.” So when they are told they now have their own economy, their own government, their own Cuban-Marxist state why can they not see the books?

Girl, you better be careful!

To present ideas, to speak out, to express an opinion, these are seen as restricted exclusively to the domain of so-called feedback meetings with community delegates or the many other meetings we’re required to attend.