The Meaning of a Phrase ‘I Am Chavez’
This isn’t an empty slogan. What it means is that Chavez and his party have entered the hearts of the people. It means that his ideas have taken root, are consolidating and are growing like a giant tree.
Elio Delgado Legón
Despite the Crisis, the Rich ARE Getting Richer
News indicates that the sales of luxury cars grew this year worldwide, especially BMW, which had solid gains and record sales in the month of September. Similarly, in Argentina for example, Porsches, Mercedes, Audis and BMWs showed sales increases of 11 percent.
Population Aging in Cuba
Career opportunities make women carefully consider the fact that by having a child they will be kept away from their work for a while just at the age when they’re beginning their professional lives. Other factors causing population aging include health care advances, the housing shortage, the high cost of living and emigration.
The World Demands Freedom for the Cuban Five
The five Cubans were convicted of charges that were not proven; rather, the jurors responded to constant pressure and intimidation by terrorist groups based in South Florida. For this same reason the five were sentenced to unreasonably long sentences.
‘Change’ Seems to Be the Watchword
Many people talk and write about the “need for change” in the world – and they’re right! The only problem is that an appeal or demand for change won’t necessarily lead to the right place.
Art Education in Cuba
As someone who was who was born and raised in the countryside, I knew of instances in which teens and young people with vocations for music but were never able to hold an instrument in their hands or pay a teacher to teach them, not even the basics of this field.
The People Pay for Misguided Policies
All of the world’s developed capitalist countries are immersed in a structural crisis that has lasted for more than four years, though there’s no solution in sight. Some of these nations (like the US and Germany) have been able to keep unemployment relatively low, but in others (such as Spain, Greece, and Italy) people’s lives have sunk to unbearable levels.
Water Resource Development in Cuba
Some people argue that Cuba was the “most advanced country in Latin America,” but that — far from serving as any consolation — makes one even sadder since it’s a measure of the dire straits in which the other peoples of the subcontinent found themselves.
Electrification of Cuba: The Reality So Often Ignored
The inappropriately named “Cuban Electric Company” (it wasn’t Cuban) only made investments in large cities, where it could quickly recover its investment. The countryside and small towns on the island didn’t produce the big profits; therefore they didn’t “deserve” to receive that service.
Cuban Education: A State Responsibility
Illiteracy was eradicated in Cuba in 1961 and the full responsibility for education was assumed by the state, which offers it free of charge at all levels and in all areas of instruction. By law, all children must attend school until the ninth grade.