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The imprisonment and persecution of Cuban activist Antonio Rodiles has broken the chain of short-term express arrests that had typified the new Cuban government’s methods of repressing the opposition.

The story of Sirley Avila is well known. She was a delegate to “People’s Power” (the municipal council) in Majibacoa, Las Tunas, the least populated municipality in Cuba.

In the headlines last week was Alejandro Castro Espin, the sole son of general/president Raul Castro and the coordinator of his intelligence and counterintelligence apparatus. He was interviewed in Moscow by RT Noticias.

I believe that Cuba, like any other country in the world, has the right and is obliged to defend its human resources and the investments it has been made in them. But it cannot do this in just any manner…

Raul Castro’s government has given birth to the “updating” of the nation’s immigration policy. Regulations have been relaxed, irritating fees have been eliminated, and contacts between islanders and Cuban émigrés are going to be facilitated.

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez seems to think that putting a stamp in passports giving Cuba’s “patriots and respectful” the right to return occasionally, is a revolutionary act.

Cuba’s leaders like decisive and overwhelming victories, which is what they have proclaimed to the world for five decades. While it’s true that they’ve never been able to overcome economic inefficiencies, they did achieve crushing military victories several times, from the Bay of Pigs to Cuito Cuanavale (in Angola).

The corruption that prevails in Cuba today is that which occurs in the process of the primitive accumulation of capital by a political elite in its bourgeois metamorphosis.

The main failure of the post-revolutionary Cuban education system was the elimination of disorder, variation and diversity as essential educational elements.