There are Republicans and there are Republicans
At least on some of policy issues, Cuban Americans do not see eye-to-eye with today’s Republican Party. The question is,...
8M: we stop
The question of whether we Cuban women would have reasons to join the global strike is, at the very least,...
Task of Reorganization in Cuba: beyond the survey
To expect to obtain massive and immediate positive impacts from the “Task of Reorganization” would be to ignore the reality...
Wandering troubadours
The streets of Cuba are full of troubadours who won’t go to sleep as long as there is someone to...
Lessons to Learn From How Cubans Became Republicans
Cuban-American Republicanism is a result of specific social processes that, when inspected can provide Democrats a way forward in organizing...
Approved by omission
Cutting down on bureaucracy’s interference in the entire self-employment project approval process is essential. Not making it depend on the...
Capablanca: chess, yes, but the ladies too
This more than fateful 2021 brings, instead, some reasons for rejoicing for lovers of the so-called science game: chess. In...
Human Rights: A guide for dialogue in Cuba (IV)
As we have said before, human rights can be a legal and ethical reference both for the functioning of the...
Closer to the horizon
Although it seemed that the list of activities not allowed as a modality of self-employment in Cuba looked faraway like...
Doing the math and “creatively living”: from “updating” to the economic reorganization
“It is assumed that there are no big losers,” “there can’t be unprotected people,” “no one will be left unprotected,”...
Human Rights: A guide for dialogue in Cuba (III)
Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights establishes that: “1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful...
Human rights: guide for dialogue in Cuba (II)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a little-known document in Cuba. I have not found it in tabloids sold...
I also dreamed one day…
Once I wrote a story in which Martí (I am referring to José Martí, the National Hero, sorry if I...
Multiply or divide…
The devaluation of the official exchange rate of the Cuban peso against the dollar, the wage reform and the administration...
Aftershocks of the earthquake
If anyone ever doubted the telluric nature of the exchange rate and monetary unification, this week, the first after the...
Hand-sewn by all Cubans
In February 1870, in the Isabel II Park, now Havana’s Parque Central, American Isaac Greenwald was assassinated, so it must...
Cuban economy in 2021: beyond the numbers
Four days ago, during the sixth regular session of the National Assembly of People’s Power, in its ninth legislature, Deputy...
Reinaldo Arenas: the ghost that appears
On December 7, it was 30 years since the death in New York of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990). It...
This is not a profile, it’s just about Gay Talese in Havana*
If the journalism students of my generation had been told that Gay Talese, the author of Honor Thy Father (1971)...
Human rights: guide for dialogue in Cuba (I)
The second Whereas of the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights announces “…the advent of a world in...
Dialogue in this Cuba?
November has been a key month for Cuban politics. In more ways than one, unheard of. A quick glance at...
The Island of Treasures
I came to the Isla de la Juventud for the first time on a plane, with my mother. We were...
Last night’s Cuba*
Yesterday, November 27, was a normal day and a long night. Every day is more or less the same for...
Being able is not wanting, wanting is not being able
Anything that jeopardizes the aspiration to extend the Democratic presence in the White House for four years after Biden, I...
Strategy and development
Eleven principles, sixteen key areas and more than 370 measures is, without a doubt, an enormous effort in favor of...
