What will Happen to Cuba Without Oil from Venezuela?
No matter how much some choose to minimize it, the result of the parliamentary elections in Venezuela has represented a harsh blow to Cuba and the Latin American left.
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Who Can Straighten Out Cuba’s Inverted Pyramid System?
Some years ago, a former vice-minister for the economy told me, keeping a straight face, that an unpublished study had revealed that the State employees who missed the least days of work were hotel bell boys and pump operators at gas stations.
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Small Town Cubans Set Their Sights on “Agro-Tourism”
Practically off the map, or at least far away from any respectable road, a rural community in Cuba is working for a decorous and prosperous future, relying on the efforts of many locals – locals who do not exactly consider their city as a bastion of salvation.
Read MoreThe Mississippi, a Cuban River
Not long ago, we were visited at home by a 13-year-old boy who had gone through six years of elementary education and was in his first year of junior high school (seventh grade, in other words). The young boy surprised me by his deportment and good manners.
Read MoreCuba/Yoani Sanchez: The Miamerry-go-round
Some deserve respect, others a hearing, others reproach; others are to laugh at, others to be pitied. The riders on the anti-Castro merry-go-round in Miami deserve a place in the Guinness Book of Records as people who, forever in motion, can never reach a final destination.
Read MoreCuba Faces Shortage of Repair People
Although I have no firm proof, Cuba might be one of the few countries where finding the good (or terrible) services of a trades person requires a great deal of patience, pleading, luck, and even that old supplication “do me the favor, for your mother’s sake” – even though you may live to regret it, in many cases.
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