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Less tourists vs more income per tourist
Tourism, I have no doubt, will have to remain one of those great engines that drive the country forward. (1)...
Encourage, promote, facilitate
No, I am not at all promoting the idea of creating another ministry in Cuba, the Ministry of Development or...
“Getting around the system”
The film Los sobrevivientes (The Survivors) by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Titón (1928-1996), always makes me face the same thoughts, because...
Wages and productivity: the egg and the hen
Wage increases can only be possible if work productivity can be increased. This idea, repeated over and over again for...
Miami, capital of Cuban cuisine
The sound like a giant hornet's nest made by the thousands of cars passing through Miami’s fast roads does not...
Change the mentality and all those that must be changed
It’s true, almost always, that when something new is undertaken it’s necessary to change our old ways of thinking: to...
First data on femicide in Cuba
Cuba joins the list of countries speaking about femicides. This was acknowledged by official sources at the end of last...
Foreign investment: the long and winding road to your door
A combination of several factors has made investment, in particular the direct foreign one, return to the news and in...
I’m also afraid
Evening is often synonymous with retreat, whether to go to rest, read a book, watch television, make love, endless things....
“Well let’s use technology on the cow”
Sitting in that comfortable chair, Pedro watched the sunrise and tasted his so special coffee, totally organic, that could only...
John Lansing de la Mancha
U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John F. Lansing will have to fight an institutional culture that has existed...
Statistics on private work in Cuba: an ideological pirouette?
According to the 2016 Cuban Statistical Yearbook, private work represented 24.8% of the total number of employed people in 2016....
Comply with the Constitution and give back the Revolution
I took some time to reflect on the regrettable events that took place during the 12th edition of the Day...
Title III of Helms-Burton: Opening the Floodgates?
On April 17, 2019, the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, announced that President Trump would not suspend for any...
What’s special about this period
I'm not going to talk about the chicken that can’t be found anywhere, nor the famous Brazilian rice so demanded...
Trump’s surprises
With his chaotic communications, President Trump conveys that he alone is in charge, and maybe that is his intention.
Women’s “special periods” in Cuba
In March 1990 Fidel Castro gave the closing speech of the 5th Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC)....
The inexorable passage of time, the one that went by…
I reread the comments to an article that appeared in Cubadebate and I remembered that magnificent song by Pablo Milanés,...
The Coral Gables doctrine
The activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton law will unleash lawsuits against investors in Cuba, potentially including U.S. companies.
Opportunity to export vs export capacity
In a previous work I tried to expose how complex it was to achieve good economic policy designs, with the...
To kill and let die
The last few weeks have brought to the forefront of Cuban public opinion two acts of extreme violence: the murders...
Animal justice
Havana experienced a rare march on the first Sunday of April. I don’t remember a "self-convened" pilgrimage of such scales,...
Mallory lives
Americans should ask: Is it right, and is it in our national interest to “strangle” Cuba’s economy?
Forbidden books
My attraction for books not registered in the inventory of edifying titles for Cuban youth turned into a disagreement with...
