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The Cuban People’s Fidel

I’m not saying that Fidel ended Cuban democracy, what he did do away with though was this civil-democratic “spirit”.

The Trials and Tribulations of a Cuban Couple

She is 29 years old, He is 38. They share their marriage, their three children and their frustration. This is their story.

“This Revolution Is Really Great”

I met Lazaro when he approached me to please talk to my wife as he knows that she is a doctor at an important hospital. He had an echocardiogram prescribed, but there weren’t any appointments for the next four months and that’s if the machine didn’t break. He was worried, he’s 78 years old. That’s when we began to talk.

Are the Cuban People to Blame?

I have absolved the Cuban people of their alleged responsibility for what has happened over the past 59 years on more than one occasion, but this time, I want to analyze it from a historiographical perspective. My thesis is that history unfolds as a result of two different kinds of change…

What I Will Tell My Grandchildren about Raul Castro

I could tell you exactly where I was when I found out about the transfer of power from one Castro brother to another [July 31, 2006]. It was something I feared would happen as it would further entrench the regime.

The Global Left’s Romance with Cuba

After 60 years, the Cuban political project continues to be a paradigm for a group within the global Left. Let’s take a simplified look at the milestones in this ambivalent love story of those who admire Cuba, but haven’t moved here just yet, preferring to defend the Revolution from Boston or Paris.

Changes in Cuba: Violence, Reforms or?

If we draw comparisons between the political climate in the late 19th century, Cuba at the end of Batista’s dictatorship, and our current situation, we will find lots of similarities. During all three of these times, the island suffered a tyrannical power which restricted its political and economic freedoms…

Free Education in Cuba

Every human living on this planet knows that education is free in Cuba. And I know because I heard the Undefeated Comandante say it 272,397 times if I didn’t count them wrong, and I shouldn’t have because my education was free.

A Cuban Trait or the Result of a Sociological Experiment?

I don’t know if living by day by day is a trait of the Cuban people or whether it’s another result of the sociological experiment that has been carried out on our people, but this conversation with my barber (which I’ve transcribed word for word) has left me thinking about the Cuban people’s apparent lack of concern for the future.

Cuba-US Dispute, All in the Family?

I won’t pull any punches… I believe that there isn’t a Cuba-US dispute. It doesn’t exist; I think it’s a publicity ruse by a family, the Castro-Diaz-Balarts, who managed to take control of Cuban politics in the two places it exists, Havana and Washington, over the past more than half century, inciting fanaticism on both sides.