Osmel Ramirez Alvarez

TeleSur, the Venezuela based satellite TV channel we see here in Cuba, has unleashed a media avalanche/advertising campaign for cryptocurrencies recently, especially the Petro…

It’s as if the term “civil society” and its meaning don’t matter at all regarding Cuba. If it weren’t such a serious subject, and even an embarrassing one in our case, it would make you laugh.

In Cuba, your vote is secret, but you are allowed to personally share how you voted and I have had the desire to explain mine… I cast a blank vote this time.

That’s why when I watched Chavez and his Bolivarian political movement win, talking about a new brand of socialism, about social justice and democracy, I couldn’t do anything but sympathize and celebrate the victory.

The CUC is just a guise to hide slave wages and inflation. This is the fundamental reason for why it’s so hard for them to eliminate the dual currency system…

I’m not saying that it wasn’t necessary in previous decades, but today, the most intelligent and productive thing to do is to disarm.

According to Cuba’s Attorney General, no Cuban citizen has the right to take legal action or file charges against any authority’s abuse of power, you can only file a “complaint”.

The programming was very different to our own as it was a lot more diverse and objective. However, Cuban “experts” were already there, at the heart of TeleSur, working and influencing for content in their own image and likeness.

According to an article by Fernando Ravsberg’s recently published on this website, “The Millions that Fly Out of Cuba“, a multimillion dollar business which individual people in the private sector engage in could be moving approximately 500 million USD per year. Here are my comments on this.

From a very young age, I felt like we were missing a bit of freedom in my country, even though I was a Fidelista like everyone around me.