On January 4th, Fernando Ravsberg published an article entitled “Challenges for Cuba’s New President”. The key issue revolves around the dual currency system, linking in with the tricky answer of how to refloat Cuba’s battered economy. The issue deserves to have all of its sensitive points poked at.
Read MoreAs Cubans awaited the New Year, we spoke with several in Havana about their expectations. One enraged man outside the Gothic church on Reina Street said: “They (the leaders) spend all day pointing the finger at each other while we, the underdogs, go from bad to worse.
Read MoreArt doesn’t have a homeland, but artists do. Censorship became a state practice when Fidel Castro pronounced in front of a large group of intellectuals one of his Solomonic declarations (typical of authoritarianism) in 1961: Within the Revolution: everything; against the Revolution: nothing.
Read MoreRaul Castro’s strategy seems to be to delegate tasks, which were concentrated in one person up until now, including to the second in command of the state-party dichotomy, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura. Castro is 86 years old, Machado Ventura is 87.
Read MoreThe daughter was 13 years old when her father, Roberto Arias Gomez, was arrested on November 18, 1991 for the alleged crime called “Enemy propaganda”. It had to do with a poster with the words Down with Fidel…(2 photos)
Read MoreBoulevards for pedestrians are in fashion here in Cuba and provincial capitals compete to be the most beautiful and attractive. Nueva Gerona, the main city on the Isle of Youth, wasn’t left behind as the capital of the so-called Special Municipality, which is in fact an island province that appears in chronicles ever since 1519 with the name Isle of Pines.
Read MoreRecently, a friend from Bar Rosi, a regular customer, suffered a heart attack, the third one in his 60 years, and he is still at the Freyre de Andrade hospital in Central Havana, which people call the Emergency Hospital. Not very common in these times of great insenstivity, his companions at Bar Rosi organized a collection for him, buying natural juices for the sick man.
Read MoreWithout the chance to give a formal interview given the fact that the kind of journalism we practice lies outside the Communist Party-State lines, if you take a look at reality, you could say, without any fear of being wrong, that remittances to Cubans via the Internet are on the rise.
Read MoreThere are few places where so many opinions come together such as in a barber’s shop here in Cuba. Trump, the White House’s “furious red-faced man”, has become our great enemy thanks to Communist political propaganda, and he is to blame for all of our misfortunes.
Read MoreOn July 30th, Grady Ross Daugherty, a HT reader and supportive anarchist, bid us farewell. Our friend came to visit our country on several occasions, his most recent visit was last year. His optimism for Cuba’s future diminished markedly in the face of the country’s current reality.
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