Columns
Emigration’s role in the Cuban economy, beyond remittances
While one of Los Van Van songs fills the premises, a professional Cuban dancer, who emigrated several years ago ...
Cuban state-run gastronomy and commerce: persistent headaches
Whoever spends time walking through the blocks that make up 23rd Street, I Street, 25th Street and F Street, will...
An abandoned corner of Santiago de las Vegas
Whoever takes Vedado’s Avenida de los Presidentes from Havana’s Malecón and keeps heading south for about forty minutes if there’s...
Fraternity, that ghost. The Cuban Republic in José Martí
The Ode to Joy, by Friedrich von Schiller, was first published in 1786. It reads: “Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,...
Employment and the future of Cuba
The resident Cuban population at the end of 2018 was 11,209,628 and its distribution by sex says that 5,575,988 were...
The apostle’s blood
Marti's life and death are a mystery to Cubans. A man of the second half of the 19th century rules...
The example of “Forever Young” and what Orishas has done with “Ojalá”
In 1988 after feeling the separation from his children because of his work, the great British singer Rod Stewart composed...
Businesspeople wanted in Cuba!
A phrase at the Mesa Redonda TV program on Thursday, January 9 has motivated this article: “We don’t need enterprise...
Eusebio, how did you do it?
It was 1979. Eusebio Leal was leaning on the southeast wall of the Palace of the Captains General in Old...
The economy and hope
They had spent several months working hard on their project. They had been discussing the idea since before graduating from...
Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence: what is gained and what is lost
In Cuba, that which will be the last state regulation regarding sexist violence is being discussed. So far, it is...
The gender of gender violence
In recent weeks, one of the most echoed and systematic debates in Cuba has been that of gender violence, especially...
Cuban entrepreneurs and development
It was more than the whole paragraph under the headline of Granma that caught my attention. The headline said, “Toda...
Eusebio of Old Havana: putting soul into the stones
This will not be an article on economics, although it will inexorably be related to it. Cities have become one...
King and queen of Spain in Cuba
The celebrations for the 500 years of the foundation of Havana are an ideal reason for the visit to Cuba...
The obstacles that hinder state enterprises in Cuba
Twice this week I’ve heard this idea in two different contexts, although always referring to the state enterprise. “Doing away...
Geopolitics replaces ideology: Russia looks at Cuba
President Miguel Díaz-Canel's visit to Russia is of the greatest relevance to current Cuban foreign policy. The second meeting between...
Those who sell serve, those who buy order
While this week almost all Cubans discussed this exciting matter of imagining how we are going to be able to...
Cuba: Virtues, limits and challenges of the new measures announced
Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa, flanked by several ministers, announced on the Cuban Mesa Redonda TV program that the...
Think and act for the country
We have been summoned to think as a country, and then to think with the heart. To think like this,...
Dignity is not decided by plebiscite
The 1976 Constitution, with its reforms, regulated marriage as the "voluntarily concerted union of a man and a woman." The...
Cuba beyond the energy situation: look at the Sun
There was a time when the inhabitants of the township of San Cristóbal de la Habana recognized the times of...
Cuba’s economic independence and Mr. Trump
Almost everything, even the worst of the worst, has something positive. It even happens with what used to be our...
We’ve hit the ceiling with the prices
The drunkenness began symptomatically with the national beer sold in private establishments. A bad start. If it is a question...
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)...
