Columns
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...
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...
