Pedro Campos

In the wake of Fidel Castro’s death, many people are writing about his revolutionary legacy for the Left and socialism on the whole. The most important part of this legacy is the following 10 serious mistakes he made which should not be repeated by socialists if they hope to contribute to social progress.

Grievances and exclamations of triumphs don’t really help us understand what is happening in the United States and what is the general feeling, which is complex, varied and contradictory, of its people and what the dynamics are behind its political system.

Today, international conditions also favor the road to domestic peace in Cuba; however, the absence of a democratic system blocks this road. A clear dialogue and democratization process would be enough to tear down the framework that supports the US embargo laws.

The Cuban government has just put into effect two classic capitalist economic measures: Imposing taxes on public sector worker salaries and freezing teacher salaries. However, it hasn’t just taken these measures; it has also made cuts to the social security, health and education budgets.

Foreign investment in unproductive state companies, like a magic wand, is brandished as the solution to our wrongs, when the truth of the matter is that foreign investment, even if in the billions, without denying the need for it, will never resolve our problems.

We approach the existing problem of power in Venezuela according to what we wish to see: a Venezuela united in diversity or a Venezuela divided and presumably destroyed.

A delegation of Major League Baseball representatives has just visited Havana, and it’s no secret: they came to explore the field, where skilled players sprout like grass, and to assess the possibility of purchasing such talent with Cuba’s sports authorities.

In the most classic sense of the word, the counterrevolution is that which prevents the advance of revolutionary measures in Cuba’s political and economic spheres and keeps the country from making progress.

Till recently, Cubans wishing to leave the country for the United States availed themselves of Ecuador’s visa exception to reach their destination through various routes, chiefly through Central America, via Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.

A number of Cuba’s official media have pointed out that Cubans who spend thousands of dollars to try and reach the United States aren’t exactly fleeing from poverty. This is true, to a considerable extent.