The bible of a people’s freedom
Help us keep OnCuba alive here A debate is doing the rounds of Cuban networks and media regarding Decree Law...
Economic debate in Cuba: first and second planes (II)
Help us keep OnCuba alive here We present the second part of this dossier that contributes to the open economic...
Combo vs. consumers
Help us keep OnCuba alive here For many years, Cubans who live on the island have almost forgotten that at...
Economic debate in Cuba: first and second planes (I)
Help us keep OnCuba alive here In recent weeks, and in connection with the national economic crisis aggravated by the...
Racism is not a vestige
Help us keep OnCuba alive here In 1909, in Camagüey, a U.S. citizen refused to attend to a “colored” Cuban....
My kingdom for a sweet potato
An old formula is known in Cuba: Goat milk and sweet potato! A humble recipe for food for the poor,...
Economic debate in Cuba. Shall we also talk about labor rights in the private sector?
The crisis associated with COVID-19 is linked to other pre-existing crises on global and national scales: economic, political, care, demographic...
Finally, who are we all? José Martí and the democratic republic in Cuba
In February 1905 the statue of José Martí, which to this day presides over Havana’s Parque Central, was placed. A...
“Respond with different actions.” It wasn’t for lack of ideas
This pandemic has caused us to look again at the documents that, for more than 10 years now, have been...
Looking for the national mammal. What about swine production in Cuba?
I remember a news item that caught my eye a few years ago. In the press there was talk of...
Cuba: (Feminist) requests to political society and civil society in the face of COVID-19
On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) got the first coronavirus alert from Wuhan, China. Since then we...
Cuba: Lessons from this “induced coma” in the economy
The forecasts for the world economy, whether they are the most moderate or cautious, or the most catastrophic, all make...
The constitutional homeland. Céspedes, Guáimaro and democracy in Cuba
In “Elpidio Valdés se casa” (Elpidio Valdés gets married; Juan Padrón, Tulio Raggi and Mario Rivas, 1991) the mambí Colonel...
From the furrow to the table: removing obstacles and obstacle-makers in food production in Cuba
In recent years, Cuba has had to face a group of unforeseen events that could exceed anyone’s imagination. The unfortunate...
The pandemic does not discriminate; inequalities do: women cushioning the crisis
With COVID-19, the world is facing two interconnected but not identical realities: it exhibits and sharpens pre-existing inequalities and generates...
Taking care, taking care of oneself, that we be taken care of in times of COVID-19
Caregiving. That is the most recurrent word in these days of COVID-19. The whole world is saying the same thing...
Coronavirus: We’ll survive, but that’s not enough
Humanity will emerge from this pandemic. Previously, pandemics also occurred and humanity survived. It is true that in all of...
Homeland. Passion and democracy of national symbols in Cuba
In 2016 the magazine Revolución y Cultura (RyC) ―then directed by Luisa Campuzano and by an Advisory Council composed of...
Welcome Mr. Day Zero. Will the arrival of monetary unification work miracles in Cuba?
He stopped in front of everyone, stared at them and then spoke: Yes, I am Mr. Day Zero. Although it...
How to be worthy when facing the blockade?
Dignity is very important in Cuban political history. March is the month of Baraguá, Maceo is a prototype of dignity...
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...
