“It’s been six years, and on October 23, we registered our organization’s thousandth member. We have chapters in Holguin, Ciego de Avila, Matanzas and Mayabeque. We belong to the Jose Marti Cultural Association and count on the invaluable support of the City Historian, Eusebio Leal, who offered us this beautiful botanical garden. One day Cuba will come to be known as the “bonsai island,” you’ll see.
Read MoreEmpowering the private sector and cooperatives – today a growing minority – means to slowly pull the rug from under the parasitical governing elite of the “communist” archipelago. Having achieved diplomatic peace, what the Castro government now fears is a peaceful US invasion.
Read MoreThe Pope saluted the gathered crowds, kissed a number of children who had been preselected for the occasion, blessed a similarly pre-approved woman on a wheelchair, embraced his Jesuit brothers and boarded his new Pope Mobile. No one drew his attention to a bulletin board where hundreds of petitions from Cuban citizens had been posted.
Read MoreThe best part of Pope Francis’ visit to Havana took place near nightfall, when the planned gathering with young people was held. Speaking on behalf of those present, a university student greeted the pontiff with the following words: “Cuba needs profound reforms, so that it may one day become the home all Cubans want, regardless of what they think and where they live.”
Read MoreBecause of my age and financial situation, I am one of the many people who began using information technologies rather late, something of a tragedy considering I was born in Cuba. For us, this is compensated for by our children and grandchildren.
Read MoreClearly, invoking 0.0012 grams of marihuana residue as criminal evidence following a meticulous search is ludicrous. Odalis Guerra was subsequently evicted from her home in Contramestre, a municipality of Santiago de Cuba.
Read More“When all is said and done, the State has the power and sets down the law. I can come here with Special Forces and put a stop to all this, even if people don’t agree. We can do that and not a thing happens”; said Mr. Fraga, Chair of the People’s Power Council of the municipality of Contramaestre.
Read MoreAsking Raul Castro’s government to fully guarantee freedom of expression, information and association is not interfering in the internal affairs of Cuba, nor does it encroach upon the nation’s sovereignty in and of itself.
Read MoreThe majority of those who come are teenagers, foreign students come in bounds, but there are also people aged 50 and over, and for the latter, there is a significant problem: they are not technologically savvy.
Read MoreFour months after reopening its doors to the public, Cuba’s largest Internet access locale (located at the intersection of Zanja and San Francisco streets), leaves a lot to be desired in terms of the scant and lousy services it offers users, even though the first impression one got was that they were working to improve the state of the facility.
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