Of all the people who write about Cuba today, one of those I most admire and follow is Haroldo Dilla. I know of no other person (which doesn’t mean they don’t exist) who deals with our political reality with more wisdom and depth.
Read MoreHaroldo Dilla comments on the nationwide protests that took place in Cuba on July 11, 2021. He also compares with what happened in the 1990s.
Read MoreHaroldo Dilla writes on Cuba’s Vaccine and the Trivialization of Progress. “The vaccine was made in a bubble of state-of-the-art technology.”
Read More“If time has ever taught us anything, it’s to appreciate subtleties. The draft Constitution, which the Cuban government is pushing forward, is full of these. There’s no doubt that this draft involves more than one positive thing, when it comes to giving a legal framework to the country’s government.” However, here is why Haroldo Dilla supports a NO vote.
Read MoreHaroldo Dilla: “I ask myself, is it reasonable that honest and decent people get involved in publicity shows in support of the Cuban government? Of course, I don’t think it is, and here are my reasons…”
Read MoreI have been meaning to write some comments on Haroldo Dilla’s post “The Cavalcade of Cuba’s Alfredo Guevara” for a long while. Dilla expressed his disconcert over the megalomaniacal pillars of this man’s personality, traits he managed to conceal quite well…
Read MoreHaroldo Dilla has just published an interesting article on the situation of Cuba’s LGBT community. It is a shame his analysis is based on information that is completely false and that he should misinform his readers with a take on things that is clearly biased.
Read MoreCuban political scientist and columnist Haroldo Dilla recently published an essay on the need for a new left to be born in our country. Nevertheless for me, as someone who considers themself a member of that political wing, those words (at least most of them) didn’t resonate.
Read More“The loosening of the restructuring rope in Cuba is not motivated by any socialist sensitivity, but by the classist instinct for self-preservation,” says Haroldo Dilla in his commentary for Havana Times.
Read MoreBlaming United States hostility towards Cuba for all the ills afflicting the island has become a manic exercise of the Cuban political elite.
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