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Frivolity Penetrates Cubans’ Souls

Ever since I was little, the word “frivolity” attracted my attention. To me it seemed beautiful, mesmerizing, at least until I found out its meaning.

Cuba’s Battle of Ideas

Guevara recognized that Cuba is experiencing “a crisis that is of a political and moral character (…) with the most terrible thing being its vacuity. The most terrible thing is to go walking down the street and not know if the people you pass by are the living dead or real people.”

Esteban Morales Booted from Cuba’s Communist Party

Esteban Morales, PhD., has been “separated from the ranks” of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) for his publication of an article denouncing what he considers the counter-revolutionary corruption and bureaucracy that exists in the country.

Cuba Needs Dialogue without Sectarianism

The economic situation is at its most critical point; social stagnation is chronic; the international campaign to isolate the government is worsening; the opposition is gathering strength, and measures by the state to alleviate some internal tensions are interpreted as weakness in the face of international pressure.

A Weed that Could Bring Cuba Power

Looking through Cuban periodicals on the Internet, I again ran into calls for conserving electric energy, something that is apparently so vital that a journalist launched the dramatic slogan “conservation or death,” through dropping the standard ending “venceremos” (we shall be victorious).

Does Cuba Need a New Province?

As the government speaks of an “excess” of more than a million workers, the central bureaucratic apparatus is proposing to create an additional province by dividing Havana Province, which rings Havana City Province, in two. Are these the structural changes that the government talks about?

It Never Would Have Happened in Cuba

If the objective of showing this film on Cuban television was to make Cuban citizens reflect —especially those who dare to criticize the domestic political system and their government about the achievements of the Revolution in the field of public health that is within reach of all our people— then the film achieved that goal.

Basic Economic Precepts of Stalinist Socialism

The Stalinists argue that those sacrifices by workers are necessary to develop the economy, as if this were a sector separate and different from development and human well-being. They constantly sacrifice the present for a socialist future that never comes…

Heroes or Villains?

The crux of the matter is that any calamity that causes Cuba to suffer hunger, war, shortages of medicine or insufficient financial resource rebounds in the lives of all Cubans on the island, as well as with the dissidents, with their relatives and with their friends.

Saving Nature Means Overcoming Capitalism

As long as the priority is to make money, to find profitable advantages on the international market and to obtain profits —regardless of how this is organized, be it by private capitalists or by a state— the world will be in danger of disasters like that now taking place in the Gulf. We will be in danger of extinction.