Columns
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...
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...
