Exports, once again
Help us keep OnCuba alive There is much good news despite COVID-19 and the return of the capital to the...
No one will be left unprotected? (II)
In part one of this text, I insisted that the discussion on social policy should be synchronous with that of...
No one will be left unprotected? (I)
In 1990, during the closing of the 5th Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), then President Fidel Castro...
Should Cuba promote introduction of genetically modified organisms in agriculture?
Help us keep OnCuba alive A few days ago, the national press published the news of the approval in Cuba...
“The glory is theirs and nobody can take it away”
Statues, monuments and the memory of racism in Cuba
Distribute the cake differently
Help us keep OnCuba alive Agriculture is today one of the activities that attracts the attention of Cubans. In the...
Under the tip of the iceberg
Help us keep OnCuba alive The death throes of El trigal concentrating market were also the labor pains of the...
Pandemonium: apropos the Cuban anti-rights religious program (I)
Help us keep OnCuba alive here Religion is no more the opium of peoples than the market dictating every possibility...
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...
