Over the past few days, the Cuban press has been flooded with articles and news reports about the government’s last propaganda gold mine: unused or slow-moving products. In their tenacious quest to find excuses for the national economic disaster, they have found something new to blame.
Read MoreWill Diaz Canel be another great waste of time like Raul Castro? Will a better Cuba start with the new president? While time makes this clear, I can either wish or flee. Eros or Thanatos.
Read MoreThe Cuban Constitution dates back to 1976, which was approved during Fidel Castro’s height of popularity in a vote which had a 98% turn-out, with 98% of the population supporting the constitution.
Read MoreIt’s hard for me to understand how a large part of the Cuban population don’t want a political change on the island, they prefer changes in economic management which improve their material conditions instead.
Read MoreThese days in Cuba have reminded me of that passage where Garcia Marquez said that in Macondo it rained so much that the fish were in the air. Almost 20 days without seeing the sun, something very unheard of these days, has kept Havana sleepy.
Read MoreCompulsory Military Service is a social arrogance, a democratic perversion and there is no rational justification for society, as a whole, to decide to force someone to spend a period of time serving as a soldier, even when the majority decide that its right. A real democracy has limits, it isn’t a dictatorship of the majority.
Read MoreDrivers are the ones to blame, according to the police, and let me repeat: “in spite of the country having an aged vehicle pool, a road network in average condition and poor level of road signs,” and yet the government, who holds an absolute monopoly over everything to do with this, isn’t to be blamed at all.
Read MoreI want a Social Bank in the Cuba I hope my children live in. Private banks are like any other business: profit oriented. A Social Bank would be oriented towards converting national savings into productive investments by financing businesspeople and companies…
Read MoreCuba’s so-called “socialism” has been an appropriation of property and using all of the country’s resources, snatched from millions of hands to be concentrated in the few who have done what they wanted to with all of a country’s financial resources.
Read MoreCuban nationals and foreigners go to the park on 17th and 8th streets to see a beautiful statue of John Lennon which was inaugurated by Fidel Castro.
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