J-11 in Cuba: about the good and the fair
Crises confirm cracks, and the cracks, losses. But the losses can also have a transformative effect and produce a reflection...
8M: we stop
The question of whether we Cuban women would have reasons to join the global strike is, at the very least,...
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,”...
Dialogue in this Cuba?
November has been a key month for Cuban politics. In more ways than one, unheard of. A quick glance at...
Public Health Law and rights of women and the LGTBIQ+ community
There are rights beyond regulations. Social practices and relationships found and ensure rights; they give them de facto existence. The...
The Cuban port of “Con mis hijos no te metas”
Cuba modified its Constitution in early 2019. In December of that same year, the National Assembly of People’s Power announced...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence: what is gained and what is lost
In Cuba, that which will be the last state regulation regarding sexist violence is being discussed. So far, it is...
The gender of gender violence
In recent weeks, one of the most echoed and systematic debates in Cuba has been that of gender violence, especially...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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