Columns
Marches and countermarches: the economic policy’s back-and-forths
I have written this column driven by the discussions around the papers presented at the Annual Seminar of the Center...
Averting the winter for a Cuba that belongs to all of us
Changing the vision that has made us prey to disunions is something we can achieve among Cubans. It would be...
Cuba: Without innovation there is no economic takeoff
Homo sapiens had achieved it. After much observation, and maybe some luck, they had not only managed to produce fire:...
The list and the money don’t tally
An old recourse to express the strangeness in a contradictory situation is the phrase: "The list and the money don’t...
The year of the dispute over the Magna Carta
In Cuba, 2018 went by between tests of Internet connection and meetings to consult the draft constitution. If the years...
Yuli: The return of the prodigal son
When Yuli is premiered in Cuba it will be a resounding success. The movie theater will be full of all...
New Year’s Eve in Times Square
On December 31, we didn’t have water in the building. Only cumbia from the Colombian neighbors’ loudspeakers, cumbias and ballenatos...
Cuba 2019: the economy’s most important challenges are not economic
As expected, 2019 will be a very tense year in terms of the economy and will also be difficult in...
Will Cubans residing abroad be able to vote in the constitutional referendum?
Last August, Ernesto Soberón, director of Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad (DACRE) of the Cuban Foreign Ministry answered the...
Beyond the 50 Chairs
At the beginning only 12 chairs were allowed in what according to popular saying was called a “paladar,” taking the...
Beyond the 50 chairs
At the beginning 12 chairs were allowed in what according to popular saying was called a “paladar,” taking the name...
Learning from tourism without having to go to China
It is true that there is a great deal to learn about the economy, not just from China but also...
Mountaineering and exports
High risk sports (mountaineering, scuba diving, parachuting, all of them) require very clear, easy to understand rules that transmit simple...
The public, the private and wellbeing
The following story I’m going to tell was given to me by a good friend, who is already retired and...
Stockpiling, commerce and planning
A feature article, “El papel lo aguanta todo” (Paper Puts Up with Everything), which appeared in the newspaper Invasor about...
A new time
Like many of you, I also spent hours in front of the TV set watching Miguel Díaz-Canel’s election as the...
Improving the rules of the game
Reuters’ news again submerged me in that so special relationship between our country and that other one: that during...
Foreign Direct Investment, Prosperity and Development
Since the late 1980s, foreign direct investment (FDI) has been included among the potential resources Cuba has had to...
What is the price of the uncertainty?
The image of Donald Trump throwing rolls of toilet paper to Puerto Rico’s population and the news that the...
Irma and sustainable development
For many the coincidence of three hurricanes and an earthquake, almost all of them at the same time and...
The road is to build
Speaking of relations between Cuba and the United States has been and still is a delicate issue whether in Havana...
Our everyday “self-employment”
“And so: yes or no? Do you remember when the fried food stalls disappeared?” Those were my friend Goyo’s welcome...
Cuban science and development
At the recent first session of the National Assembly of People’s Power, one of the relevant issues was related to...
The wished-for economic growth
The growth goal (2 percent) is again becoming a focal point at the recently concluded first half of the year....
A better deal…for whom
When Donald Trump won the elections last November, we all felt we would have four years of a lot of...
