If I had kept the receipt I was given at the store, maybe I could have written an article about what happens when you ask for your money back because the item you bought is not in good condition. But I didn’t keep it, I was so confident that the quality of this tooth brush would match its price.
Read MoreThe breaking down of a bus is one of the worst and not so infrequent things that can happen to those of us who depend on the Cuban public transportation system. That’s why it’s not only important that these vehicles be maintained, but also that we deposit our fares in the money box when we get on.
Read MoreIt is not a matter of imposing upon producers the bourgeoisie discipline of hunger or compulsory military service, but instead it’s about “associated labor plying its toil with a willing hand, a ready mind, and a joyous heart”
Read MoreI attempted to explain that if those of us in the media set our sights on promoting universal concepts such as democracy, political liberties or human rights, the only way to attain them must involve measuring all countries with the same yardstick.
The lack of political freedom in Saudi Arabia should receive as much media coverage as that in Iran, while those held prisoner without trial in Guantanamo by the United States merit equal attention with the Cuban prisoners of conscience.
Read MoreThese bureaucratic forces block the free development of the productive forces, science and modern technology, and impede the self-government of worker and social communities. The end result of this is stagnation in the revolution (the socialization /democratization process).
Read MoreThe deep socio-economic changes that are needed by Cuban society to advance toward true socialism do not seem possible if the controls that limit the direct and decisive participation of people in the current political system are not also modified.
Read MoreI hope I’m mistaken, but it seems that there are parliamentarians who are ready to do harm to the whole of society by holding up the approval of the Family Code to prevent people who are homosexual from being entitled to specific rights.
Read More“Don’t stand out” is a phrase I’ve heard almost since I was old enough to think. “Don’t stand out,” people say; don’t stray from the flock, from the comfortable anonymity of the mass. I have somewhat of an idea of the consequences of “being pointed out,” though I’ve never taken it to the extreme.
Read MoreScientists have been calling attention to the changes in the climate and in the environment in general —the consequences of the irrational abuse of nature by human beings— can wind up ending the conditions that facilitated the development of humans on the Earth.
Read MoreAgriculture bureaucrats responsible for allowing much of Cuba’s farmland to be invaded by the marabu bush weed are losing ground in the countryside, while campesino families are beginning to take control over their own properties. Land in Cuba is changing hands and the effect is immediate: food production is increasing.
The authorities have taken a first step toward transforming land tenure, but they also need to change the distribution and commercialization system. Otherwise, all the efforts of farmers in the field will never be reflected on Cuban tables.
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